{"id":583839,"date":"2026-08-05T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583839\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:16:08","slug":"irish-medical-organisation-calls-for-uhl-to-be-treated-as-critical-infrastructure-amid-overcrowding-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583839\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Medical Organisation Calls For UHL To Be Treated As &#8220;Critical Infrastructure&#8221; Amid Overcrowding Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish Medical Organisation is calling for upgrades at University Hospital Limerick to be treated as critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a week of persistently high attendances at the region\u2019s Main Hospital, which led to HSE MidWest asking patients not to attend the ED if possible.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Clare FM, the IMO has described the closure of A&amp;Es at Ennis, Nenagh and St Johns as disastrous policy decisions which the people of the MidWest are suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Chairperson Professor Mick Molloy says all investment in MidWest healthcare needs to be fasttracked.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full interview below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Medical Organisation is calling for upgrades at University Hospital Limerick to be treated as critical infrastructure.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-583839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583839","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=583839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}