Pressures on UHW has intensified since a fire in Wexford General Hospital, after which some patients were transferred to Waterford.
However, a statement from the hospital yesterday did not specify what it is an outbreak of.
UHW said it had experienced “record attendances in the Emergency Department, causing increased pressure on bed availability”.It warned that those who do attend the ED for “routine and/or non-urgent treatment will experience long wait times”.More than 200 patients had to be evacuated from the building, with patients then transferred to UHW, as well as to hospitals in Kilkenny, Dublin and Cork.
In the ten days following the fire, University Hospital Waterford experienced a 27% increase in weekday patient presentations, a 41% increase in weekend presentations, as well as a 59% increase in Ambulance arrivals, according to the South/South West Hospital Group.
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