{"id":46023,"date":"2022-07-04T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/04\/cancer-care-flood-assam-hospital-boats-patients"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T05:30:34","slug":"cancer-care-cant-stop-flood-hit-assam-hospital-uses-boats-to-reach-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46023","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cancer care can\u2019t stop\u2019: flood-hit Assam hospital uses boats to reach patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff use makeshift rafts and boats to transport patients and bring painkillers and medicines to those trapped at home<\/p>\n<p>When the flood water roared into her home in Assam, Jyoti Bora* saw the morphine pills she takes for head and neck cancer swept away along with all her belongings. At the relief camp she was evacuated to, Bora, who uses a wheelchair, found a boat to take her to the hospital to get more medication.<\/p>\n<p>But when she got to Cacher cancer hospital and research centre she found the entrance flooded \u2013 the water was 1.5 metres high. A hospital orderly and a nurse were dispatched in a raft, made from planks of plywood tied to tyre inner tubes, to collect her.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/04\/cancer-care-flood-assam-hospital-boats-patients\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff use makeshift rafts and boats to transport patients and bring painkillers and medicines to those trapped at homeWhen the flood water roared into her home in Assam, Jyoti Bora* saw the morphine pills she takes for head and neck cancer swept away a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"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":[2228,455,313,59,346,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","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\/46023","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\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46024,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46023\/revisions\/46024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}