INMO says staff at LUH are being worn down by the overcrowding crisis

One of Ireland’s largest health unions says the overcrowding crisis is taking a terrible toll on staff at Letterkenny University Hospital.

Neal Donohue is the INMO’s Industrial Relations Officer in the North West.

He told Greg Hughes on today’s Nine til Noon Show that their members at LUH are distraught and burnt out……..

There are fewer beds in Irish hospitals now. than there were in 1981.

That’s according to Emergency Medicine Doctor Lisa Cunningham, who says the system is ‘at breaking point’.

She says increased bed capacity is the only way they’ll be able to cope………..