Every year we hear the same stories out of hospitals, trollies, trollies, trollies. People being left in hallways awaiting medical care.
The new site BreakingNews.ie has gone as far as making a recurring series that follows the numbers of people waiting on beds in the country, dubbing it ‘Trolley Watch’.
The premise of the articles is quite simple and in fact barely qualify as articles really. It is more of a short update that could have been done in a tweet, sorry an X.
Starts by telling how many are on trollies on what day, what departments they are in and according to who, usually the Irish Nurses and Midwives Association, before going on to tell which hospital has the highest number, always being University Hospital Limerick, who also end up being the featured image of all the articles on top of that.
The format does get repetitive if you go through all the entries in the series, but I think it is repetitive nature actually has an interesting effect that the reader might pick up on.
The fact that they can make such a recurring article on overcrowding in the first place is a sign of something terribly wrong in our health system.
They have been repeating this similar article weekly since March 2023, all the while reporting the same problems in the same places.
I mean hospital numbers will always be news to be people, so they just get a decent story every week and already have the format down, you must credit how long they have been able to keep putting it out in fairness.
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