{"id":349033,"date":"2026-03-16T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:16:09","slug":"cork-university-hospital-the-most-overcrowded-in-the-country-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349033\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork University Hospital the most overcrowded in the country today\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Cork University Hospital is\u00a0 currently the most overcrowded hospital in Ireland with 57 people being treated on trollies, amid restrictions in place due to an outbreak of norovirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The hospital is ahead of University Hospital Limerick, usually the most overcrowded, which has 47 patients on trolleys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There are a total of 78 people on trolleys in Cork today, including 11 at Bantry General Hospital and eight at the Mercy University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It comes as HSE South West advised on Friday that the highest level of visitor restrictions due to a norovirus outbreak would remain in place at Cork University Hospital (CUH) for the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Unapproved visitors are not allowed entry to CUH due to an unprecedented surge of norovirus, a winter vomiting bug, which began two weeks ago across the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency Departments are often busier around bank holiday weekends and see the sickest patients first, meaning a that patients with non-urgent injuries may face longer waiting times,&#8221; said\u00a0 HSE spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So far this year, 2,397 patients have been treated on trolleys in CUH, 1,136 in the Mercy and 413 in Bantry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The figure includes 523, 287 and 88 respectively in March to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork University Hospital is\u00a0 currently the most overcrowded hospital in Ireland with 57 people being treated on trollies,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15607,79,27121,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-349033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cork-health","tag-cork-news","tag-cork-university-hospital","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349033","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=349033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}