Image: Shutterstock/Thaiview Image: Shutterstock/Thaiview THE IRISH NURSES AND Midwives Organisation have written to Oireachtas Health Committee members urging them to urgently investigate the overcrowding situation at University Hospital Limerick .
During the morning’s 8am count at UHL, the HSE said it counted 39 patients waiting for a bed on trolleys at the hospital. The letter, seen by TheJournal.ie, requests an urgent hearing before thee committee on the “most serious matters”. “The consequence of hospital wide overcrowding is nurses struggle to provide safe care as they cannot adequately monitor and assess patients to the levels required. This is due to inadequate staffing and extra trolleys on wards and in emergency department,” states the letter.
The letter was also read out in the Dáil today by Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty, who said what staff describe in Limerick “amounts to an unsafe hospital for patients”.Responding, Tánaiste Simon Coveney said the unit with the 17 bed closures is to facilitate the completion of a new fracture centre, and reading out a statement from the hospital group, stated that the staff were “fully involved” in the process.
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