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What can be done to address hospital overcrowding?
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English - April 23, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes - 6.95 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNews radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick was “akin to a war zone” on the weekend that 16-year-old sepsis patient Aoife Johnston died there. That’s what Clinical Nurse Manager Katherine Skelly told the inquest into Aoife’s death yesterday.
But more than a year after her passing, has anything been done to address the overcrowding crisis? We heard from Professor Conor Deasy, President of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine.