Fifteen patients on trolleys at Mayo hospital today

Fifteen patients are on trolleys at Mayo University Hospital today.

Six are awaiting admission in the emergency department with nine patients on wards in the hospital.

The daily INMO Trolley Watch count shows 252 admitted patients are waiting for beds this morning, according to today’s INMO Trolley Watch.

Of those, 212 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 40 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.

The busiest hospital is University Hospital Limerick with 46 patients on trolleys and Cork University Hospital has 41.