Twenty people on trolleys at Kildare's main hospital

Twenty patients were treated on trolleys at Naas Hospital today, having been admitted through the accident and emergency department.

But the most overcrowded hospital in the eastern region was the Mater Hospital which has 43 people on trolleys, followed by St Vincent's Hospital where the figure was 43.

There were no patients on trolleys at Tullamore Hospital and there were nine patients on trolleys at Portlaoise Hospital.

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