{"id":11993,"date":"2019-12-10T17:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/10\/new-zealand-volcano-eruption-injured-tourists-suffering-severe-burns-to-skin-and-lungs"},"modified":"2019-12-10T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:22:16","slug":"new-zealand-volcano-eruption-injured-tourists-suffering-severe-burns-to-skin-and-lungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11993","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand volcano eruption: injured tourists suffering severe burns to skin and lungs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ burns units stretched to capacity as Australian hospitals asked if they can take on additional patients<\/p>\n<p>Tourists injured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-eruption-dead-missing-white-island\">eruption of New Zealand\u2019s White Island\/Whakaari volcano<\/a> have burned lungs from inhaling sulphur dioxide and volcanic ash, and \u201cvery significant\u201d deep-tissue burns, some to more than half of their body, a senior emergency doctor has said.<\/p>\n<p>The Australasian College of Emergency Medicine president, Dr John Bonning, was working in the emergency department of Waikato hospital, one of four hospitals in New Zealand with a regional burns unit, when patients arrived from Whakatane and Tauranga hospitals on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/10\/new-zealand-volcano-eruption-injured-tourists-suffering-severe-burns-to-skin-and-lungs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ burns units stretched to capacity as Australian hospitals asked if they can take on additional patientsTourists injured in the eruption of New Zealand\u2019s White Island\/Whakaari volcano have burned lungs from inhaling sulphur dioxide and volcanic ash, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,346,56,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-health","category-new-zealand","category-white-island-volcano"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11994,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}