{"id":12118,"date":"2019-12-14T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/14\/nothing-short-of-miraculous-the-long-road-ahead-for-injured-survivors-of-white-island"},"modified":"2019-12-14T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T19:00:02","slug":"nothing-short-of-miraculous-the-long-road-ahead-for-injured-survivors-of-white-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12118","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nothing short of miraculous&#8217;: the long road ahead for injured survivors of White Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recovery won\u2019t be easy for the Australians burned in the New Zealand volcano disaster, but some of the world\u2019s best specialists are on hand to help<\/p>\n<p>As families of the Australian survivors of the New Zealand volcano disaster wait anxiously on their loved ones\u2019 prognosis, there will be a small comfort in knowing that some of the world\u2019s best plastic surgeons and burns specialists will lead their care as they return home for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Specialist paramedics travelled to New Zealand as part of a medical evacuation team to accompany patients on their return, with 11 Australians flown to major burns units throughout the country including Concord hospital in Sydney and the Alfred hospital in Melbourne. More patients were expected to arrive on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/14\/nothing-short-of-miraculous-the-long-road-ahead-for-injured-survivors-of-white-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovery won\u2019t be easy for the Australians burned in the New Zealand volcano disaster, but some of the world\u2019s best specialists are on hand to helpAs families of the Australian survivors of the New Zealand volcano disaster wait anxiously on their loved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"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-12118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-health","category-new-zealand","category-white-island-volcano"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118\/revisions\/12119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}