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Revealed: Ireland’s hospitals worst hit by operation and appointment cancellations due to overcrowding

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Revealed: Ireland’s hospitals worst hit by operation and appointment cancellations due to overcrowding

Severely ill patients left to suffer as bed shortage increases pressure on system

Cara, her mother Tonya, sister Fiadh and father Colin. Cara suffers from spina bifida and has had operations cancelled several times over the years, including once when she had been prepped and had fasted overnight, only for it to be called off at the last minute

More than 50,000 patients had their operations, procedures and appointments cancelled in the first three months of the year as hospitals battled overcrowding.

These cancellations would include people who needed surgery for cancer and other illnesses.

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