Waterford Hospital Mortuary is reporting cramped conditions with dead bodies on trolleys in corridors

Consultants are  claiming  that conditions are so bad at the University Hospital Waterford mortuary that dead bodies have been left on trolleys, often leaking body fluids on to the floor.

The complaints were made in a letter to the South-South West Hospital Group in Cork last October by four pathologists and first reported by the Waterford News & Star newspaper.

In the letter, the pathologists complained about a lack of refrigeration facilities and cramped conditions.

The four doctors say no major changes have been made since.