{"id":37803,"date":"2021-10-08T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/08\/crisis-unfolding-as-papua-new-guinea-hospitals-hit-by-worst-covid-wave-yet"},"modified":"2021-10-08T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:14:06","slug":"crisis-unfolding-as-papua-new-guinea-hospitals-hit-by-worst-covid-wave-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37803","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crisis unfolding\u2019 as Papua New Guinea hospitals hit by worst Covid wave yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health authorities have been forced to turn a stadium into a makeshift hospital while elsewhere essential services are closing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hospitals in Papua New Guinea are being pushed to the brink and morgues are overflowing, as the country suffers what health authorities say is the worst surge in Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s health care system has long been plagued by shortages of drugs, funding, an ailing infrastructure and a severe lack of health workers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/08\/crisis-unfolding-as-papua-new-guinea-hospitals-hit-by-worst-covid-wave-yet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health authorities have been forced to turn a stadium into a makeshift hospital while elsewhere essential services are closingSee all our coronavirus coverageHospitals in Papua New Guinea are being pushed to the brink and morgues are overflowing, as th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1366,"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":[41,1066,874,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37803","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\/1366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37804,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37803\/revisions\/37804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}