Hospital management say a skilled and experienced paediatric diabetes nurse will be available from today, to provide short-term support to parents.

The Roscommon injury unit will remain open on Bank Holiday Monday however the Mullingar minor injuries unit will be closed.

The deputy claimed it is 'utterly unacceptable' that the HSE has not staffed the MRI scanner.

Galway University Hospital has the second highest figure nationally at 48, with the third worst affected hospital being Sligo with 40 people currently waiting for admission.

Galway University Hospital has the second highest figure nationally at 61,

Nationally, 72-thousand 391 people have gone without a bed in Irish hospitals in 2023.

The provision of the state of the art device to the hospital is the work of years of fundraising.

The youngest patient was 14 years old and the eldest was 55.