Galway Bay fm newsroom – Trolley and ward watch figures have increased by almost two thirds at University Hospital Galway since the height of the boom.
According to the latest analysis of figures by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, there were 208 people on trolleys at UHG in April 2006.
This compares to 587 on trolleys and along wards in April of this year – an increase of 64 per cent.
In contrast the number of people on trolleys at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe over the same 10 year period more than halved from 39 in 2006 to 18 last month.
There were more than two thousand 200 people waiting on trolleys and in wards at UHG in the first 4 months of this year – the third worst hospital for trolley figures in the country.
Today at UHG, there are 41 people waiting on trolleys and on wards.
The INMO is holding its annual conference in Killarney today and is calling for more investment in the health service.