The Irish Hospital Consultants Association claims the number of people on trolleys could exceed 800 in the coming days.
There was an all-time record of 760 patients stranded without a bed in Irish hospitals yesterday – enough to fill Letterkenny University Hospitals 333 bed capacity twice over.
The HSE has apologised and says it’s due to a surge in the number of people presenting with flu.
Dr. Laura Durcan is a consultant rheumatologist in Beaumont Hospital and the vice-president of the IHCA.
She fears things will get worse in the coming days:
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