{"id":51611,"date":"2023-01-03T11:13:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/03\/bodies-left-to-decay-outside-overcrowded-papua-new-guinea-morgue-footage-shows"},"modified":"2023-01-03T11:13:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:13:43","slug":"bodies-left-to-decay-outside-overcrowded-papua-new-guinea-morgue-footage-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51611","title":{"rendered":"Bodies left to decay outside overcrowded Papua New Guinea morgue, footage shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncollected dead stored in shed with no air conditioning despite tropical heat will have to be buried in mass grave<\/p>\n<p>Footage of nearly a dozen bodies left to decay outside one of Papua New Guinea\u2019s major hospitals has highlighted the pressures on the country\u2019s health system and prompted calls for urgent reform.<\/p>\n<p>The three-minute video shows 11 bodies on bunk beds and gurneys inside what appears to be a shed being used as a temporary mortuary. The building has no proper air conditioning and the windows and doors are open to the elements. The bodies are left there for families to collect or until space frees up in the morgue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/03\/bodies-left-to-decay-outside-overcrowded-papua-new-guinea-morgue-footage-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncollected dead stored in shed with no air conditioning despite tropical heat will have to be buried in mass graveFootage of nearly a dozen bodies left to decay outside one of Papua New Guinea\u2019s major hospitals has highlighted the pressures on the cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3508,"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":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/51611","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\/3508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51612,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51611\/revisions\/51612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}