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Thu 01 Jan 2007Inquiry into why 36 patients kept on trolleysAn investigation has begun at the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick to examine the circumstances which led to 36 patients waiting on trolleys for admission on Tuesday.The overcrowding was so severe that the emergency department ran out of trolleys and three patients had to be cared for on trolleys from the ambulances that brought them to the hospital. Ambulances were out of commission for about 45 minutes as a result.