Alona Troy, 40, said her elderly mother feared she would have died if a fire broke out at University Hospital Limerick as she lay helplessly for four-and-a-half days. Ms Troy, from Limerick, Ireland, took her elderly mother to hospital on September 23 after she contracted an infection linked to her chronic illness. Due to sustained overcrowding in the hospital, which topped the national chart in Ireland for patients on trolleys in September, a lack of beds saw Ms Troy's mother left on a trolley, her daughter said. (Image: Getty Images)"Mam was brought into the hospital by ambulance after she contracted an infection, these can be life threatening and it's happened before," she said. Ms Troy said her mother visits the hospital regularly and, before this week, once waited 70 hours for a bed.

Source: Daily Mirror October 01, 2019 17:26 UTC