16 patients are waiting on beds in midlands hospitals.
There's been a worrying spike in the number of patients without a bed in Irish hospitals.
That's according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, which has described the situation as 'intolerable'.
According to its latest Trolley Watch figures, there were 663 patients without a bed nationwide this morning.
16 of those are in midlands hospitals - 12 patients are waiting on beds in Mullingar, and four in Portlaoise.
The highest figure in the country was recorded at University Hospital Limerick, who had 96 people waiting on hospital trolleys.
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