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Local hospitals are under “extreme pressure” and it would not take a lot to “push them over the edge” the chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group warned this week.

Sinn Féin’s general election candidate in Longford/Westmeath, Cllr. Sorca Clarke, has stated the Government’s winter bed plan has been exposed as “hype and spin” as the facts with regard to its implementation become apparent.

Management at University Hospital Galway are accessing beds in private nursing homes on a daily basis in a bid to facilitate discharges and ease the pressure on its overburdened emergency department.

Seven inpatient and 10 day case admissions were cancelled at University Hospital Galway as part of the regional hospital’s contingency plan to deal with the nurses’ strike, which was due to have taken place on Tuesday.

A child with special needs who is waiting on an operation at University Hospital Galway has had it cancelled on a number of occasions.