Galway Bay fm newsroom - Approximately 7,000 people have waited on trolleys at UHG so far this year.
New figures released from the INMO show that 6,870 people were awaiting a bed at UHG in 2019.
Nationally, over 100 thousand people went without a bed from January to November, the second time in history the figure has passed 100,000.
The new figures follow a very difficult month for the Emergency Department in Galway, with a new high of 71 patients awaiting beds on a single day in November.
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