Cork University Hospital has been forced to move patients to other hospitals in the region because of pressure on its resources due to overcrowding. He confirmed the transfer of the patients was down to overcrowding pressures. News that the hospital was having to move the patients came as a two week closure of elective (non-urgent) surgeries was due to come to an end today. Tony McNamara, chief executive of Cork University Hospital, wrote on the hospital’s website calling for “more honest national debate” on the trolley crisis and queried figures published by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. He said many patients were appropriately on trolleys in assessment units, awaiting a decision as to whether they needed to be admitted.

Source: Irish Examiner January 08, 2018 00:00 UTC