Patients waiting on hospital trolleys in Ireland 2006-2022
The number of patients waiting for a hospital bed on trolleys was over 9.6 thousand in the month of August 2022, the worst year in the provided time interval. Hospital overcrowding otherwise known as the 'trolley crisis' has been a problem before the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of patients waiting for hospital bed on trolley dropped to approximately 3.1 thousand in 2020. Since the summer of 2021, where restrictions have generally been lifted, overcrowding of hospitals has again been emerging. This statistic displays the number of individuals waiting on hospital trolleys in Ireland in the month of August 2006 to August 2022.
