Yesterday, almost 1,000 people were waiting on trolleys at Irish hospitals. In University Hospital Kerry, the number was 40 – the highest ever since the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation started recording statistics 17 years ago. Treasa spoke to Dr Fergal Hickey, communications officer of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, and Dr Martin Boyd, consultant in emergency medicine at UHK, and chair of the Medicine Board about the crisis.
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