No patients on trolleys at Naas Hospital today

There was no overcrowding at Naas Hospital today with nurses reporting that not a single patient was admitted through the accident and emergency department  without a bed being available.

The most overcrowded hospital in the eastern region was was St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin where 31 patients had no bed followed by St James's Hospital, also Dublin, where 27 people were without a bed.

There was a single patient without a bed at Portlaoise Hospital and none at Tullamore Hospital.

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