The Emergency Department at Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) is extremely busy with high numbers of people attending the department who need to be admitted to hospital for ongoing treatment.
Over the last three days 411 people attended the Emergency Department in LUH.
Currently there are 99 people in the ED and 34 patients awaiting a bed. There are a high number of delayed discharges impacting on bed availability.
The hospital is advising that patients who attend ED for routine and non-urgent treatment will experience very long waiting times.
The hospital is also managing separate outbreaks of Norovirus and COVID-19 and visiting restrictions will be in place in the impacted wards.
A number of elective procedures have been cancelled for tomorrow with time critical surgeries going ahead. All patients are…