Hospital overcrowding: HSE to visit all acute hospitals as 260 people wait for beds

Worst impacted hospitals today are St Vincent’s and Letterkenny University Hospital

One of those will be University Hospital Waterford which typically reports zero patients waiting on trolleys despite facing the same surge in hospitalisations due to respiratory illness, influenza and Covid-19.

Reacting to Minister Donnelly’s call for Consultants to work weekends, Dr Condon said, “We all did that anyway. If we weren’t working and had a sick person in the hospital we always came in and saw them, particularly in Waterford. As a group of consultants in Ardkeen we were always there on call and even if we weren’t on call we would come in to see a patient.

A spokesperson for the Irish Hospital Consultants Association said: “It is not inconceivable that we could see 1,000 admitted patients being treated on trolleys on a single day in the weeks ahead.

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