{"id":180461,"date":"2025-12-08T04:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180461\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T04:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:45:11","slug":"parents-report-long-waits-at-paediatric-ae-as-louth-hospital-faces-renewed-pressure-ahead-of-winter-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180461\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents report long waits at paediatric A&#038;E as Louth hospital faces renewed pressure ahead of winter surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6904459b-aa03-44dc-869b-ff63ba7d1460.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/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)\">Parents have raised fresh concerns about lengthy wait times at the paediatric Accident and Emergency department (ED) in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (OLOH) in Drogheda as the hospital continues to experience significant pressure heading into the winter surge period.<\/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)\">Families have reported routinely waiting extended periods for assessment and treatment, with increasing frustration over the lack of clear information on expected wait times or staffing levels. Some parents say they feel \u201cleft in the dark\u201d, unsure whether to wait, leave, or seek care elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents have raised fresh concerns about lengthy wait times at the paediatric Accident and Emergency department (ED) in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,41886],"class_list":{"0":"post-180461","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-katie-finnegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180461","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=180461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}