10 patients on trolleys in Mullingar today

There are 10 patients on trolleys at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, today, according to the daily Trolley Watch survey conducted by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

All 10 patients are in the Emergency Department (ED).

The number for the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore today is one, in the ED.

Today's national total in the survey is 222, of whom 176 are on EDs.

Four of those patients are younger than 16.

The hospital with the highest number of patients on trolleys today is again University Hospital Limerick, where there are 39 - of whom 25 are in the ED.