The latest figures from the Irish Midwives and Nurses Organisation show there is 399 people waiting for a bed in hospitals on Friday.
296 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 103 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.
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The hospital with the highest number of patients without a bed is University Hospital Limerick, with 88 patients being treated on trolleys.
35 of them are in the emergency department, with 53 elsewhere in the hospital.
Cork University Hospital has 40 people on trolleys, with 36 people in the emergency department.
