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What can be done to address hospital overcrowding?

The Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick was “akin to a war zone” on the week...

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07.00 23 Apr 2024


What can be done to address hospital overcrowding?


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07.00 23 Apr 2024


The Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick was “akin to a war zone” on the weekend that 16-year-old sepsis patient Aoife Johnston died there. That’s what Clinical Nurse Manager Katherine Skelly told the inquest into Aoife’s death yesterday. 

But more than a year after her passing, has anything been done to address the overcrowding crisis?  We heard from Professor Conor Deasy, President of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine.


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