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Tue 06 Jun 2004Patient found his trolley taken by another after visit to toiletAs more than 150 patients were being accommodated on trolleys in accident and emergency departments of hospitals in the Eastern region yesterday, it emerged that one patient who left a trolley to use the toilet found it taken by another patient on his return. Eithne Donnellan, Health Correspondent, reportsThe incident, at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, has been the subject of a formal complaint from the 48-year-old patient who spent three days in the hospital's A&E department being treated for a heart condition.