Mullingar second on Trolley Watch list today

The Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar is second on the list of patients on trolleys today.

The number is 25, and the only higher one is 60, at University Hospital Limerick, according to the daily Trolley Watch survey conducted by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

In Mullingar all 25 patients are in the Emergency Department (ED). In Limerick, 47 are in the ED.

Cork University Hospital has 23 patients on trolleys today, all in the ED.

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

Today's national total is 192, of whom 165 are on EDs, and of whom three are younger than 16.