{"id":3562,"date":"2014-07-04T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T02:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2014-07-04T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T02:36:04","slug":"doctor-from-ugandan-dies-of-ebola-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/doctor-from-ugandan-dies-of-ebola-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor from Ugandan dies of Ebola in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan senior surgeon has succumbed to the Ebola virus in Liberia where he had been working for three years as a health specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Samuel Muhumuza Mutoro died on Tuesday at the John F. Kennedy Medical Centre, Liberia\u2019s biggest hospital in Monrovia where he was being treated.<\/p>\n<p>Muhumuza was a surgeon assigned to Redemption Hospital in New Kru Town on a contract with the Liberian government and the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his death, Muhumuza is said to have volunteered to treat a colleague who was infected with Ebola, thereby exposing himself to the deadly disease&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/news\/657141-ugandan-doctor-dies-of-ebola-in-liberia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan senior surgeon has succumbed to the Ebola virus in Liberia where he had been working for three years as a health specialist. Dr. Samuel Muhumuza Mutoro died on Tuesday at the John F. Kennedy Medical Centre, Liberia\u2019s biggest hospital in Monrovia where he was being treated. Muhumuza was a surgeon assigned to Redemption [&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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,2090,1110,2089,4712,1107,257,2091,254,2092,4692],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dr-samuel-muhumuza-mutoro","tag-ebola-virus","tag-ebola-virus-in-liberia","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-samuel-muhumuza-mutoro","tag-south-africa-today","tag-succumbed-to-the-ebola-virus","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","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=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/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=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}