1,600 Roscommon residents are on waiting lists for appointments between Galway, Portiuncula and Roscommon hospitals.
1,083 of these are since capacity was reduced in March this year at the onset of Covid 19.
The waiting list includes patients waiting for diagnostic as well as surgical procedures.
169 people have yet to be called for appointments at Portiuncula hospital in Ballinasloe, which includes 89 for general surgery and 46 for genecology.
782 people are waiting for procedures at Galway University Hospital, among those figures are 145 for orthopedics, 142 for ophthalmology and 102 for urology.
There’s 679 people on the list for Roscommon University hospital, 492 of these are for general surgery and 106 for plastic surgery.
The impact of reduced surgery since Covid 19 is most stark in Roscommon where 345 people have been waiting up to 3 months for a procedure, 158 are waiting up for between 3 and 6 months and 52 patients are waiting up to 8 months.
In the case of University Hospital Galway a backlog of 436 cases has built up during the pandemic.
Councillor Tony Ward who sought the information from the HSE Region Forum says the figures don’t surprise him as he has many people whose operations have been cancelled calling him.
