{"id":21015,"date":"2014-11-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/21015\/people-are-dying\/"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T06:05:33","slug":"people-are-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/06\/people-are-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: \u2018People are dying\u2019 &#8211; No Ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer was inundated by complaints from paramedics who say that their lives are being endangered because of the critical shortage of ambulances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/20941\/policeman-crushed\/\">Video: Policeman crushed &#8211; Warning: Graphic images.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022The Observer witnessed how paramedics had to place a stretcher carrying a critically injured policeman, on the road next to an ambulance, then kicking the doors open from inside, to gain access &#8211; watch the shocking footage:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jFn0mmdJkLc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u2022Read the full story in the Middelburg Observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople are dying in our hands because we don\u2019t have ambulances,\u201d a distraught state paramedic exclaimed on the bloody accident scene where w\/o Shima Mhaule, was crushed to death by a rolling car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":21044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}