{"id":191081,"date":"2025-12-14T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/191081\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:37:09","slug":"this-is-unprecedented-childrens-hospitals-in-crisis-mode-as-icus-fill-up-weeks-before-flu-hits-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/191081\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is unprecedented\u2019: Children\u2019s hospitals in crisis mode as ICUs fill up \u2013 weeks before flu hits peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Level of virus now circulating is \u2018unprecedented\u2019, says CHI clinical director\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Children's hospitals have seen a huge number of flu cases. Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765701429_170_3bfa2f06-f713-4d8f-9c23-d1b688e6a972.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)\">Children&#8217;s hospitals have seen a huge number of flu cases. Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Maeve Sheehan and Niamh Horan<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">An unprecedented surge in flu \u00adcases has plunged Children\u2019s Health Ireland (CHI) into crisis mode, with record numbers of children requiring admission to hospital.<\/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 paediatric hospital group held two crisis meetings on Friday to create bed space for the influx of sick children, as doctors warn that the worst of the flu crisis is yet to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Level of virus now circulating is \u2018unprecedented\u2019, says CHI clinical director Children&#8217;s hospitals have seen a huge number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,2120,1421,6134,43,6083,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-191081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-hse","10":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","11":"tag-maeve-sheehan","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-niamh-horan","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191081","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=191081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}