{"id":184216,"date":"2024-11-09T01:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-marshall-health-center-officer-in-charge-refutes-reports-of-using-phone-lights-to-deliver-babies\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T01:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T23:30:20","slug":"liberia-marshall-health-center-officer-in-charge-refutes-reports-of-using-phone-lights-to-deliver-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-marshall-health-center-officer-in-charge-refutes-reports-of-using-phone-lights-to-deliver-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Marshall Health Center Officer-in-Charge Refutes Reports of Using Phone Lights to Deliver Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Officer-in-Charge of the Marshall Health Center, Nurse Dorothy Padmore, has dismissed recent media reports alleging that healthcare workers at the facility have been using phone flashlights during delivery procedures due to insufficient power supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">The allegation, which circulated widely on social media and was reported by several local news outlets, claimed that intermittent power outages had forced nurses to resort to mobile phone lights, compromising the safety and well-being of patients,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411080116.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Officer-in-Charge of the Marshall Health Center, Nurse Dorothy Padmore, has dismissed recent media reports alleging that healthcare workers at the facility have been using phone flashlights during delivery procedures due to insufficient power supply. The allegation, which circulated widely on social media and was reported by several local news outlets, claimed that intermittent power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,16523,7621,6126,5731,4712,1107,13546,26988,257,48628,9200,9698,8327,254],"class_list":["post-184216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-babies","tag-center","tag-deliver","tag-health","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lights","tag-marshall","tag-news","tag-officerincharge","tag-phone","tag-refutes","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}