{"id":189220,"date":"2025-01-22T01:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-how-st-josephs-catholic-hospital-ignored-professional-medical-standards-leading-to-death\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:48:21","slug":"liberia-how-st-josephs-catholic-hospital-ignored-professional-medical-standards-leading-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-how-st-josephs-catholic-hospital-ignored-professional-medical-standards-leading-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: How St. Joseph&#8217;s Catholic Hospital Ignored Professional Medical Standards, Leading to Death."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The incident that led to the death of a 21-year-old patient, Isaiah Benedicto Williams, at St. Joseph&#8217;s Catholic Hospital in Monrovia could have been avoided if the doctor and staff had taken dedicated care on duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The unfortunate situation unveils the level of sheer recklessness by health authorities and health institutions across the country, resulting in countless deaths that usually go unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">But the family of the late promising Isaiah Benedicto Williams stood their ground in demanding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501210616.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 incident that led to the death of a 21-year-old patient, Isaiah Benedicto Williams, at St. Joseph&#8217;s Catholic Hospital in Monrovia could have been avoided if the doctor and staff had taken dedicated care on duty. The unfortunate situation unveils the level of sheer recklessness by health authorities and health institutions across the country, resulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189221,"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":[258,256,10991,6974,6362,36911,6301,4712,1107,7417,257,6780,254,13841],"class_list":["post-189220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catholic","tag-death","tag-hospital","tag-josephs","tag-leading","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-professional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-standards"],"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\/189220","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=189220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}