16 patients waiting on a bed at St Luke’s General Hospital for Carlow and Kilkenny

16 patients are waiting on a bed at St Luke’s General Hospital today.

Seven people are in the local emergency department with nine more on other wards.

They’re among 613 waiting nationwide according to the INMO’s Trolley Watch.

University Hospital Limerick has the highest figure in the country at 95 with 87 at University Hospital Galway.