HEALTH MINISTER ASKED TO INTERVENE IN UHG OVERCROWDING

Date Published: 22-Sep-2011

The Irish nurses and midwives organisation has called on the Health Minister to intervene in the overcrowding crisis at University Hospital Galway.There were 38 emergency patients on trollies last night, eight of these have been there for three days while a 78 year old patient spent a fourth night on a trolley.It's now moved to full capacity protocol which means putting extra patients on full wards throughout the hospital.