{"id":198428,"date":"2025-12-18T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198428\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:24:15","slug":"two-new-hospitals-and-more-beds-get-green-light-to-ease-overcrowding-crisis-in-uhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198428\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new hospitals and more beds get green light to ease overcrowding crisis in UHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick earlier this month (Photo: David Raleigh)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/943f2ed7-417c-49ee-ab7e-df0ec62d18df.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 earlier this month (Photo: David Raleigh)<\/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)\">Two new hospitals for the mid west as well as more immediate additional beds were promised by Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill today to alleviate overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick.<\/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 minister was responding to the report carried out by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) to address the overcrowding in the hospital and its ongoing trolley crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick earlier this month (Photo: David Raleigh) Two new hospitals for the mid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-198428","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\/198428","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=198428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}