The Chief Executive of the University of Limerick Hospitals Group has said it is likely that all elective care will be stood down from next Wednesday due to the surge in Covid-19 patients and emergency admissions.
Speaking on RTÉ's News at One, Colette Cowan said ICU beds in the Limerick hospital are now full and a surge plan is in place.
She said the situation is being monitored and while patients have been given surgery times for next week, these may yet be cancelled. "At the moment surgery is going ahead on a day-to-day basis...
but by Wednesday next week we expect we will be standing down all of that work to prepare for the Covid surge and unscheduled emergency work," Ms Cowan said. "That is what we're predicting - that our elective