{"id":3463,"date":"2014-07-01T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T12:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2014-07-01T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T12:05:36","slug":"south-sudan-patients-shot-in-hospital-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-patients-shot-in-hospital-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan patients \u2018shot in hospital beds\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violence in South Sudan&#8217;s civil war including the execution of scores of hospital patients is the worst seen for decades and is an &#8220;affront to human dignity&#8221;, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The conflict has at times seen horrific levels of violence, including against healthcare facilities,&#8221; said Raphael Gorgeu, South Sudan chief for Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patients have been shot in their beds, and lifesaving medical facilities have been burned and effectively destroyed. These attacks have far-reaching consequences for hundreds of thousands of people who are cut off from medical services.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/News\/2014\/07\/01\/South-Sudan-patients-shot-in-hospital-beds-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"South Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence in South Sudan&#8217;s civil war including the execution of scores of hospital patients is the worst seen for decades and is an &#8220;affront to human dignity&#8221;, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday. &#8220;The conflict has at times seen horrific levels of violence, including against healthcare facilities,&#8221; said Raphael Gorgeu, South Sudan chief for Doctors Without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[258,256,1447,4695,1952,1950,1951,257,254,4700,733,1953],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-doctors-without-borders","tag-east-africa","tag-horrific-levels-of-violence","tag-medecins-sans-frontieres","tag-msf","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-south-sudan-patients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}