{"id":285576,"date":"2026-01-15T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/285576\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:35:09","slug":"hospitals-under-huge-pressure-as-flu-season-peaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/285576\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals under huge pressure as flu season peaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the flu season continues, hospitals are under large amounts of pressure.<\/p>\n<p>While numbers of patients waiting on trolleys at Mayo University<br \/>Hospital has eased, high numbers remain at Galway University Hospital<br \/>and Sligo University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Many hospitals have introduced restricted visiting times and asked<br \/>people only to attend emergency departments in cases of genuine<br \/>emergency, in an attempt to ease pressures.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Warde is the HSE\u2019s Integrated Health Area Manager for Mayo and she<br \/>has been speaking with Midwest Radio\u2019s Scott Stephens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARDEHSE.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARDEHSE.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the flu season continues, hospitals are under large amounts of pressure. While numbers of patients waiting on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18,135,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-285576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115898674320339963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}