15 patients on trolleys in Naas Hospital

Some 15 patients were being treated on trolleys at Naas Hospital, having been admitted through the accident and emergency department.

However the  most overcrowded hospital in the eastern region was the Mater Hospital in Dublin city where there were 44 people on trolleys followed by Tallaght Hospital with an overcrowding figure of 30.

At Tullamore Hospital there were no patients on trolleys while at Portlaoise Hospital there were eight.

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