396 patients without a bed at LUH in June

There was an 18% increase in the number of people waiting on a trolley at Letterkenny University Hospital this month.

During June, 396 patients were without a bed at the hospital, that’s up on the same period the previous year when 335 people waited on a bed.

Nationally, over 8,312 patients, including 164 children, were admitted to hospital without a bed in June, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Trolley Watch report.

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