{"id":119132,"date":"2021-04-18T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T02:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119132"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T02:26:40","slug":"patients-evacuated-after-fire-at-south-africa-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119132","title":{"rendered":"Patients evacuated after fire at South Africa hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Patients-evacuated-after-fire-at-South-Africa-hospital-1235320?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/868\/86803627.295.jpg\" alt=\"Hospital staff prepare to evacuate patients on stretchers at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Hospital staff prepare to evacuate patients on stretchers at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A fire has forced hundreds of patients to be evacuated from a hospital in South Africa&#8217;s Johannesburg.<br><br>No injuries or casualties have been reported and patients are being moved to other hospitals.<br><br>The fire started Friday morning and had been doused by the afternoon but then it reignited in the evening and burned through the night.<br><br>The fire has caused extensive damage to the Charlotte Maxeke hospital, which is one of the biggest public hospitals in South Africa.<br><br>The hospital is also a designated treatment centre for COVID-19.<br><br>The fire started in a storeroom for dry surgical supplies, according to officials.<br><br>\u201cOur firefighters have been receiving help from others in neighbouring municipalities. It has been a tedious process trying to move patients. At first, we moved them towards that were far away from the fire but we started to evacuate them,&#8221; Gauteng health spokeswoman Kwara Kekana said.<br><br>\u201cThat is still a process that is ongoing, we are now referring all patients to other hospitals,\u201d said Kekana. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital staff prepare to evacuate patients on stretchers at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital JOHANNESBURG, April 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A fire has forced hundreds of patients to be evacuated from a hospital in South Africa&#8217;s Johannesburg. No injuries or casualties have been reported and patients are being moved to other hospitals. The fire started Friday morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}