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Letterkenny Hospital third most overcrowded for month of March

Andrew Mooney -
Letterkenny Hospital third most overcrowded for month of March

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation say March was the worst month on record for people awaiting a hospital bed.

Letterkenny University Hospital was the third most impacted nationally with a total of 781 patients forced to wait including 12 today.

Sligo University Hospital was the sixth most overcrowded around the country for the month with 606 waiting and 34 today.

A total of 11,001 people were waiting for a bed in ireland for the month of March with 469 waiting today.

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92 Covid-19 patients are being treated in the north west's two main hospitals today; down 38 on the same time last week.

54 people are in Letterkenny University Hospital and 38 in Sligo University Hospital; there is also one patient in the ICU in both hospitals.

1,535 people are in an Irish hospital with the virus today, 49 of whom are in an ICU.

 

Andrew Mooney -