Nurses will be consulted on possible strike action next week
Overcrowding in hospitals should be treated as a "national crisis", the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has said.
READ MORE: Irish nurses threaten strike action over unsafe working conditions due to hospital overcrowding "What we can say to patients is we stand with them, we stand with them every day and every night of the week, our members are on duty 24/7. She said: "It is simply not acceptable that every single year around this time, we have this crisis because the effects of the crisis for patients actually is that they’re dying unnecessarily, if that isn’t a stark enough issue to get all of government action, we don’t know what is."
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