12 people on trolleys today at Naas Hospital

A dozen patients were being treated on trolleys at Naas Hospital today having been admitted through the accident and emergency department.

This is significantly less that the Mater Hospital in Dublin city centre where 45 people were admitted without a bed being ready and this was the most overcrowded hospital in the eastern region.

There were no patients on trolleys at Tullamore Hospital while the figure for Portlaoise Hospital was 13.

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