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Updated: 2.50pm
The number of patients on hospital trolleys has reached its highest point since the beginning of of the pandemic, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
A total of 506 admitted patients were waiting for beds this morning, according to the union’s figures.
393 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 113 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.
The largest number was recorded in University Hospital Limerick, where there are 91 patients on trolleys – the highest daily figure for any hospital since the start of the pandemic.
Letterkenny University Hospital had 57 patients on trolleys this morning, with 21 within the emergency department and 36 on wards elsewhere.
The worst-affected hospitals include:
There have previously been warnings from the union that overcrowding while Covid-19 remains present in hospitals is particulaly dangerous for staff and patients.
According to the INMO, it records patients who may also be on chairs, in waiting rooms, or “simply wherever there’s space” in the hospital that morning.
INMO General Secretary, Phil Ní Sheaghdha said staff and patients are being put “at risk” by the the rising trolley numbers.
“An INMO survey last week showed that over 90% of nurses and midwives are facing burnout. We have a workforce that is completely exhausted and today’s figures indicate that it is only going to get worse if overcrowding is allowed to escalate over the coming months.
She added: “The situation that existed in early 2020 is upon us again albeit for different reasons, and the same measures must be taken- curtailment of services and assistance from the private hospitals- an exhausted workforce cannot be asked to do the impossible.
“Following on from today’s Budget we must see a concrete plan for keeping patients and staff in our hospital safe over the winter months.”
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Cool. I know what I’ll be watching tonight.
All thanks to the communist principles of Kim Jung Un …… Maybe socialism aint so bad !
The journal is now an advertising platform of torrents.eu
Those pesky North Koreans trying to destroy the world one torrent at a time! Oh the humanity
All available on showbox..Thats me sorted for the week..
Check out movie 25
This is a job for Team America and Gary Johnston’s fantastic acting skills.
Unless there is a North Korean working at Sony Studios. These are more than likely advanced screener videos for critics and award purposes that have been leaked out by staff themselves and found their way into the wrong hands.
Screener season is January. Love January.
This has publicity stunt written all over it. “Let’s release 4 rubbish films and blame it on a hack from the country our possibly good film is about. That will stir up free advertising”. And it has, reading this and other articles.
Fury is a class film anto oscar material
Apart from Annie they’re all films with legit Oscar intentions. Mr Turner played in the Cannes film festival and Timothy Spall will likely get a nominations for Best Actor.
Someone in Sony will be in deep Sh#t! 5 movies lost to torrents! Cyber Monday eat your heart out!
Good movies, but I haven’t watched em yet sure that’s illegal ;)
It’s actually not (unless they’ve changed the law in the last two years), I checked with INFACT who are in charge of copyright infringement in late 2011.
It’s illegal to download audio (music), however it’s not illegal to download video as long as you don’t distribute it (seed torrents, sharing, burning disks etc).
Personal use is totally legitimate as long as no distribution occurs.
Maybe someone in the journal could verify this with INFACT.
I seed man , actually I don’t that’s against the law ;)
The day is coming where all entertainment will have to be released globally at the same time, people don’t wanna wait for months to see a movie which is spoilt by people on social media giving away the fecking start middle and ending !!!
The ship hits an iceberg and sinks… Oh and jack drowns.
Shame it wasn’t Interstellar. I can’t wait to see that flick
On your own there
Go see it so? It’s on in every cinema in the country.
Actually don’t bother it’s crap
Yeah it’s not great. Fury is one of the best films I’ve seen in a while and worth the price of admission. Worth seeing in the cinema for the better sound.
I live in a foreign country with lovely, but foreign, words
Are they taking requests?
These include unreleased titles “Annie,” “Mr. Turner,” “Still Alice,” and “To Write Love On Her Arms,” as well as World War II drama “Fury.”
Praise the Lord for showbox
Jaysis Fury was woeful,couldn’t be more ridiculous,Saving Private Ryan meets Rambo,Still Alice is very good though,so one of the cast tells me….
It’s a good film let down by its over the top unrealistic ending
The ending did wreck it a bit
It started well and I was enjoying it but descended into farce,for me if the last half hour of a film is a joke you’ve just wasted your time
I recommend Fury and I’m looking forward to American Sniper.
Fury is a great show. Thanks.
Too bad it wasn’t Foxcatcher or Whiplash leaked instead. Can’t wait to see both
Want to see American sniper next, anybody know if I can locate it online yet?
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