{"id":44744,"date":"2022-05-23T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/23\/pakistan-town-blames-deadly-cholera-outbreak-on-government-neglect"},"modified":"2022-05-23T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:00:10","slug":"pakistan-town-blames-deadly-cholera-outbreak-on-government-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44744","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan town blames deadly cholera outbreak on government neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Pir Koh say poor water provision and a dirty water tank led to 26 deaths, the majority among children under seven<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Ruqiyya Bibi fell sick. The two-year-old was vomiting constantly; her father, Mohammed Iqbal, took her to a basic health unit in Pir Koh, a impoverished town with a population of 40,000 in the mountains of Balochistan, south-western Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Iqbal was told at first that his daughter had malaria but when treatment did not help, he took her to another doctor who said she had a blood condition.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/23\/pakistan-town-blames-deadly-cholera-outbreak-on-government-neglect\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Pir Koh say poor water provision and a dirty water tank led to 26 deaths, the majority among children under sevenTwo weeks ago, Ruqiyya Bibi fell sick. The two-year-old was vomiting constantly; her father, Mohammed Iqbal, took her to a bas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"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":[59,346,60,79,61,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-pakistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-water","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\/44744","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44745,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44744\/revisions\/44745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}