14 patients on trolleys at Mullingar hospital today

There are 14 patients on trolleys at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar today.

The figure comes from the daily Trolley Watch survey conducted by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

All 14 patients are in the Emergency Department (ED).

The number for the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore is zero.

The Mullingar hospital number is the fourth highest today.

The highest number is 43 at University Hospital Limerick, 30 of whom are in the ED.

There are 18 patients on trolleys at Sligo University Hospital, 10 of them in the ED.

At Cork University Hospital there are 16 patients on trolleys, all in the ED.

Today's national total is 152, of whom 131 are on EDs, and of whom six are younger than 16.