It’s unacceptable to both patients presenting at the Emergency dept of Mayo University hospital and to the staff working there that there are 27 patients on trolleys today waiting for admittance to the hospital. That’s the view of Mayo Sinn Fein Senator Rose Conway Walsh.

The Senator says the buck has to stop with the Minister for Health and the Taoiseach that are presiding over the chaos.

There are just short of 600 people waiting on trolleys today at hospitals across the country.

According to the INMO Trolley Watch figures, there are 25 patients on trolleys today at Sligo University Hospital, 26 at University Hospital Galway and 14 at Portiuncula in Ballinasloe.

Additional acute hospital beds and more staff is the only way to address the ongoing overcrowding problem at Emergency Depts at hospitals nationally, the Senator claims.

She told Midwest News today that the present situation at Mayo University Hospital is unfair to patients and staff. Listen to the interview back now.