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University Hospital Galway is the third most overcrowded hospital in Ireland today with 38 patients on trolleys.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation carries out a count of the number of patients on trolleys or without a proper bed in the Emergency Department and overcrowded wards each morning.
The most overcrowded today are University Hospital Limerick (66) and Cork University Hospital (45).
Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe is faring better today with no patients left on trolleys.
UHG is frequently one of the worst affected hospitals in the country by overcrowding with more than 700 people left on trolleys in July.
Last month was the worst July for hospital overcrowding ever recorded by the INMO with 9,439 hospital patients forced to wait without a bed.
INMO Director of Industrial Relations, Tony Fitzpatrick said the problem stems from frontline nursing and midwifery posts which are vacant due to the HSE’s “dysfunctional and bureaucratic employment control processes”.
