The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has labelled Emergency Departments as 'warehouses for admitted inpatients'.
2022 saw a record year for patients waiting on trolleys.
Yearly figures from the INMO show over 121 thousand patients were without a bed in 2022.
Dr Fergal Hickey of the I-A-E-M says Emergency Departments are stretched to the limit:
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