ELECTIVE SURGERY CANCELLED AT UHG

Date Published: 17-Nov-2011

All elective surgery at University Hospital Galway has been cancelled today [17/11] as the pressure on the A&E continues to escalate.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is calling for immediate action as 60 patients wait on trolleys at the A&E, Medical Assessment Unit and on wards.

Some patients are now even waiting on trolleys at Merlin Park Hospital, while a further three people are on trolleys at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe.

Elective surgery has been cancelled at UHG, apart from orthopaedics at Merlin Park Hospital.