{"id":446315,"date":"2026-05-13T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446315\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:20:12","slug":"this-working-life-with-dr-mireia-roca-cabau-i-love-surgery-and-building-things-so-i-jumped-at-chance-to-set-up-a-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446315\/","title":{"rendered":"This Working Life with Dr Mireia Roca Cabau: \u2018I love surgery and building things, so I jumped at chance to set up a clinic\u2019"},"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\">The vitreoretinal and cataract surgeon with Veonet Ireland chats to Mary McCarthy about her formative experiences in Senegal and moving here to build a future\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Mireia Roca Cabau was surprised to find such long waiting lists in Ireland to get cataracts done\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/94560c82-7736-47a0-895d-e5951d4a114d.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)\">Dr Mireia Roca Cabau was surprised to find such long waiting lists in Ireland to get cataracts done<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Mary McCarthy<\/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)\">I grew up in Lleida, a small city near Barcelona, which is where I studied medicine. My dad is an ophthalmologist, so I saw it at home. When I was 16 a friend of his had a charity project in Senegal \u2013 Fundacio Ferreruela-Sanfeliu \u2013 carrying out cataract surgery and I went out there to work as a scrub nurse and loved it.<\/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)\">In 2010 I went to study medicine at the Universitat de Lleida and it was easy for me when it came to choosing my speciality. I had always liked ophthalmology, and my time at the clinic in Senegal made me want to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vitreoretinal and cataract surgeon with Veonet Ireland chats to Mary McCarthy about her formative experiences in Senegal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,90452,43],"class_list":["post-446315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mary-mccarthy","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446315","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=446315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}