Over 3,425 people have left the Emergency Departments at Sligo and Letterkenny University Hospital’s this year before being discharged according to new figures.

Data released to Social Democrats TD Padraig Rice shows over 70 thousand people left an Emergency Department across the Country without finishing their treatment in the first seven months of this year.

1.655 patients left the emergency department without being officially being discharged in Sligo while the number in Letterkenny was 1,770.

Sligo Councillor and Regional Health forum member Edel MacSharry says the figures are concerning.

She says in some instances many of the people that leave without being discharged represent with their health having detreated even further