{"id":275236,"date":"2026-02-01T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275236\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:56:09","slug":"minister-describes-vacant-beds-at-mallow-general-hospital-as-a-mortal-sin-while-patients-lie-in-trolleys-at-other-cork-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275236\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister describes vacant beds at Mallow General Hospital as a \u2018mortal\u2019 sin while patients lie in trolleys at other Cork hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock picture of Mallow General Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/90eacf6a-fcd9-4976-85ac-af4daad448cd.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)\">Stock picture of Mallow General 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 Minister for Health has expressed her concerns about vacant beds at Mallow General Hospital over Christmas, while patients were in trolleys at Cork University Hospital and Mercy University 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)\">Figures released by Minister Carroll MacNeill showed that Mallow had ten vacancies on Sunday, 28 December and on the same day, 11 people were on trolleys in Mercy University Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock picture of Mallow General Hospital The Minister for Health has expressed her concerns about vacant beds at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3414,3775,103,397,396,2120,61,60,1421,47806],"class_list":{"0":"post-275236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-fine-gael","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-hse","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","17":"tag-john-bohane"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275236","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=275236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}