Sligo University Hospital was once again one of the most overcrowded hospitals in the country for the month of October.
The figure was reported by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation as part of their trolley watch analysis.
Sligo University Hospital was the fifth highest in the country, with six hundred and sixty-three patients being attended to on trolleys during last month.
However, it is a decrease from 730 patients who were left on trolleys during October of last year.
Letterkenny University Hospital was the eighth highest in the country, with two hundred and seventy-nine patients on trolleys throughout the month. The highest in Ireland was University Hospital Limerick, with almost two thousand patients.
Over ten thousand patients were treated in what the INMO described as “inappropriate areas” in hospitals nationwide in October.
In a statement from the INMO, General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha said this “is a grim indicator for the level of overcrowding we are bound to see over the winter period” and that “Staffing is an issue across all hospitals.”
In today’s figures, Sligo University Hospital was the fourth highest in Ireland, with 25 patients without a bed, Letterkenny was the fifth highest with 23.
