It has been revealed in an up-to-date report that HSE management is being urged by nurses and midwives of the hospital formerly known as Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick to implement the major disaster plan of the region.

The report has found the Mid-Western Regional Hospital is facing overcrowd these days because of which members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have been urging the HSE management to take the initiative.

The Union of nurses and midwives has claimed that the hospital was unsafe as more number of people was being admitted to the hospital than its normal capacity to admit patients. It has been found that patients, 96 in number, were extra than the normal capacity of the hospital to allow nearly 350 inpatients.

Mary Fogarty, the union’s industrial relations officer has told the reporters that the Minister for Health has been assuring of improvements and recommendations in the hospital since long though. The hospital is still going through the same poor situation.

It has further been reported by the organization that it realized 34 patients on trolleys in emergency the last morning. Along with there were 12 patients in the medical assessment unit, 11 in the surgical day ward and another 14 on extra beds and trolleys. The union told that the hospital had to ask local GPs for help as well as claimed that it needs more staff to provide proper care to patients.

Taking into consideration the concern of the union, a spokesman for HSE in Limerick said that the hospital was under pressure due to extra number of patients, which had overburdened the nurses. He told that public has been requested by the HSE to go to the hospital only in case of emergency.