INMO Calls For Immediate Ban On All Activity To Deal With Soaring ED Attendances

Record-breaking levels of overcrowding are being experienced at the region's main hospital today. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's latest analysis shows there were 130 admitted patients on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick this morning. It's the highest level of overcrwoding ever recorded at any Irish hospital since records began and is also almost three times higher than any other facility in the country today. INMO Assistant Director for Industrial Relations for the Midwest, Mary Fogarty says that this level of overcrowding is frightening for both patients and staff.