{"id":19877,"date":"2020-06-30T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/30\/covid-19-intensifies-elder-abuse-globally-as-hospitals-prioritise-young"},"modified":"2020-06-30T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:15:04","slug":"covid-19-intensifies-elder-abuse-globally-as-hospitals-prioritise-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19877","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 intensifies elder abuse globally as hospitals prioritise young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Older patients turned away or left untreated, while domestic abuse is also rising, leading charity reports<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Souzi Bondeko\u2019s grandfather started showing symptoms of Covid-19 and was struggling to breathe, she took him to a hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s capital, Kinshasa, where he was put on a ventilator.<\/p>\n<p>She dashed home to get some food and returned to be told by a member of staff that he had been taken off the machine as it it was needed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/30\/covid-19-intensifies-elder-abuse-globally-as-hospitals-prioritise-young\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older patients turned away or left untreated, while domestic abuse is also rising, leading charity reportsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen Souzi Bondeko\u2019s grandfather started showing symptoms of Covid-19 and was struggli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1410,"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":[401,327,1069,1052,934,59,62,1265,573,212,241,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-bangladesh","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","category-domestic-violence","category-global-development","category-india","category-jordan","category-kyrgyzstan","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-nepal","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/19877","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\/1410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19878,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions\/19878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}