{"id":223935,"date":"2026-01-02T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/223935\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:26:13","slug":"strict-visiting-restrictions-in-place-at-midland-regional-hospital-tullamore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/223935\/","title":{"rendered":"Strict visiting restrictions in place at Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore, Co. Offaly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/57f56eae-91d2-4da1-afe8-09ef57db482d.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)\">Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore, Co. Offaly<\/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)\">Visiting is restricted in all hospital departments at the Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore due to a rise in the number of people presenting with respiratory viral illnesses, such as Influenza.<\/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 HSE stated that the hospital is also experiencing an increase in the winter vomiting bug, which \u201cappears to be circulating in the community\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore, Co. Offaly Visiting is restricted in all hospital departments at the Midland Regional Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,5657],"class_list":["post-223935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louise-hickey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223935","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=223935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}