A 70-year-old woman spent 105 hours on a trolley in a hospital in Limerick and expressed fears she would die if a fire started, her daughter said. Alona Troy, 40, from Bruree in Limerick took her elderly mother to University Hospital Limerick on Monday, September 23, after she contracted an infection linked to her chronic illness. Due to sustained overcrowding in the hospital, which topped the national chart for patients on trolleys in September, a lack of beds saw Ms Troy’s mother left on a trolley for four and a half days, according to her daughter. “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. Medicinal drips (Lynne Cameron/PA)“We couldn’t wash her, I had a few times where I just broke down in tears.

Source: Irish Examiner October 01, 2019 11:37 UTC