{"id":55943,"date":"2025-10-01T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55943\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:55:07","slug":"deterioration-of-mid-west-healthcare-situation-beyond-comprehension-td-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55943\/","title":{"rendered":"Deterioration of Mid-West healthcare situation ‘beyond comprehension’, TD says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Tipperary TD has said it is “beyond comprehension” how the healthcare situation in the Mid-West region has been allowed to deteriorate for years.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Newstalk, Labour TD Alan Kelly said the region is in urgent need of additional healthcare facilities:<\/p>\n

“We as a community in the Mid-West have been discriminated for 20 years. We need another A&E. We need another Model 3 hospital in the region.<\/p>\n

“It is absolutely imperative. It is beyond my comprehension how it cannot be recommended.”<\/p>\n

This comes after Hiqa released a new report suggesting three solutions to the issue of overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick.<\/p>\n

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Hospital overcrowding: Over 100 people on trolleys in UHL<\/p>\n

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University Hospital Limerick is renowned for its overcrowding<\/a>, with 147 patients without beds on Monday.<\/p>\n

The ED and wards at UHL are consistently the most overcrowded in the country, with demand from a catchment of over 400,000 that includes all of Limerick and Clare, north Tipperary, and parts of North Cork and north Kerry.<\/p>\n

The HSE announced on Monday that the opening of a newly constructed 96-bed block at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is \u201cimminent\u201d, as near-record patient overcrowding continues to plague the hospital.<\/p>\n

The Health Minister said the department is prioritising providing more in-patient beds at UHL rather than a new hospital, but has not ruled it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tipperary TD has said it is “beyond comprehension” how the healthcare situation in the Mid-West region has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-55943","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943","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=55943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}