News - hospital trolleys

The number of admitted patients from the Shannonside region waiting on a hospital bed is once again up with Sligo Univeristy Hospital currently having 38 patients on trolleys.

396 are waiting in Emergency Departments , while 189 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.

Galway University Hospital has the second highest figure nationally at 48, with the third worst affected hospital being Sligo with 40 people currently waiting for admission.