‘Third-world conditions’ at Limerick hospital: ‘My mother’s last hours were horrendous’

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A Limerick woman says her mother’s last few hours on this earth were “absolutely horrendous” due to the “third world conditions” at UHL.

absolutely horrendous” due to the “third world conditions” at the University Hospital Limerick Emergency Department.has been highlighting the conditions at the Limerick hospital, which is regularly the most overcrowded in the country.

“They are heroes in my eyes,” she said. “What they are living through and putting up with every day is absolute hell."Just unbelievable"“There was a woman, I can still hear her, she was crying and crying, ‘Please, please, somebody help me; somebody let me go to the toilet.’“There was a man beside me that kept asking, and eventually he was brought into a cubicle with the door open, put on a commode, and next thing the smells that emanated from the cubicle, we could all get it.

Teri said her father had a similar experience at the hospital four years ago and the situation was the exact same, only worse because there were even more people”.

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