The consistent overcrowding at hospital ED's needs to be treated as a national emergency
The INMO say it's time the Government started to treat the situation as a crisis
Cork University Hospital was again the second most overcrowded hospital in the country with 984 patients treated on trolleys at the facility last month
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says medical evidence shows that spending more than six hours on a trolley is detrimental to a patient's long term health outcome
Speaking to RedFM News Colm Porter of the INMO in Cork says in stark terms it increases the mortality rate by over 8%
The medical evidence shows that spending more than six hours on a trolley has a detrimental impact on a patient's health outcome. So to put it bluntly really it is that you know, the more time somebody spends in a trolley after six hours, their mortality rate goes up by by over 8%. So it's something that really needs to be to be looked at and addressed because you know, having one person on a trolley is too many patients on a trolley."
