{"id":12061,"date":"2019-12-12T01:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/new-zealand-surgeons-working-non-stop-to-help-volcano-victims"},"modified":"2019-12-12T01:29:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:29:14","slug":"new-zealand-surgeons-working-non-stop-to-help-volcano-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12061","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand surgeons working &#8216;non-stop&#8217; to help volcano victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s health authorities said to have ordered 1.2m sq cm of skin to treat burn injuries<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons are working around the clock to help tourists who suffered horrendous burn injuries in the eruption of the New Zealand\u2019s White Island volcano, health experts have said.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand health authorities have reportedly ordered 1.2 million sq cm of skin from the US in order to treat those injured: 27 of whom had burns to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/white-island-eruption-what-we-know-so-far\">more than 30% of their body<\/a>, with some having burns to 90-95% of their body. For context, experts say the palm of a hand is about 1.5% of the area of the body.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/new-zealand-surgeons-working-non-stop-to-help-volcano-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s health authorities said to have ordered 1.2m sq cm of skin to treat burn injuriesSurgeons are working around the clock to help tourists who suffered horrendous burn injuries in the eruption of the New Zealand\u2019s White Island volcano, health ex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"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":[41,346,56,79,899,989,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-health","category-new-zealand","category-society","category-volcanoes","category-white-island-volcano","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061","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\/685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12062,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions\/12062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}