{"id":174927,"date":"2025-12-04T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/174927\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:16:09","slug":"revealed-worst-hit-hospitals-amid-surge-in-winter-viruses-as-aes-struggle-to-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/174927\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Worst-hit hospitals amid surge in winter viruses as A&#038;Es struggle to cope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (Photo: David Raleigh)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/455b2d30-439d-446a-abd7-a7efc98a8f15.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (Photo: David Raleigh)<\/p>\n<p>Eilish O&#8217;Regan and David Raleigh<\/p>\n<p>Today at 15:16<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than 50 patients were waiting on trolleys for a bed for at least 24 hours this morning as hospital emergency departments struggled to cope with a winter surge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The rise in flu as well as other respiratory illnesses, along with the cold weather, has worsened overcrowding in hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (Photo: David Raleigh) Eilish O&#8217;Regan and David Raleigh Today at 15:16 More&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-174927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}