Pressure on beds creates long delays for ED patients
Thu, Jan 20, 2022
Patients attending University Hospital Galway's emergency department (ED) who are waiting to be admitted to a bed on a ward, continue to experience long delays again this week due to pressure on bed capacity.
There were 70 patients waiting on trolleys on Tuesday in the ED, the acute surgical assessment unit, and the acute medical unit, according to the hospital.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, which compiles a daily trolley watch record, reported yesterday (Wednesday) that there were 29 patients waiting for beds in the facility's emergency department.
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