Nearly 200,000 emergency patients waited 48 hours or more for a bed last year, report finds

Some of Northern Ireland’s sickest A&E patients waiting over three days for a bed

One in 20 patients admitted from emergency departments spent more than 58 hours there before getting a bed last year - 23 hours longer than just four years ago

Canadians spending more time waiting for emergency health care: CIHI

One in 10 admitted patients, equalling around 180,000 people, spent more than 48 hours in the emergency department waiting for an inpatient bed.

ER wait times in Canada a symptom of health care ‘crisis’ says doc

A new report says one-tenth of emergency department patients spent more than 14 hours in the emergency room in 2024-25

Evidence: Afari Military Hospital is not 98% complete

The 500-bed military hospital at Afari in the Ashanti Region was not 98 per cent complete when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration was leaving office in January 2025. And it is nowhere near 98 per cent complete in June 2026. The false claim that the hospital was 98 per cent complete when the NPP left office is contained in an NPP press statement signed by the co-chair of the NPP’s policy committee on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, a former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service.

Overcrowding ongoing at UHL as hospital tops trolley tallies for June

THROUGHOUT the month of June, more than twice as many people were left waiting on trolleys for valuable in-hospital bedspace at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) than the country’s next most overcrowded hospital. That’s according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s TrolleyWatch count for last month, which showed 1,799 patients left being treated on trolleys [] The post Overcrowding ongoing at UHL as hospital tops trolley tallies for June appeared first on Limerick Post.