{"id":1648,"date":"2011-12-05T04:51:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/private-surgery\/"},"modified":"2011-12-05T04:51:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:51:15","slug":"private-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/private-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our friends and family members have expressed concern about the quality of health care here in Swaziland, so I wanted to do a quick post to set their minds at ease.&#160; Most people are aware that here on the mission we actually have two clinics: one specializing in HIV \/ TB and another that deals with general health issues \/ maternity \/ etc.&#160; We have 8 nurses that live within a few hundred feet of us and a doctor who works with our clinic.&#160; This is by far the closest we have ever been to basic medical care and assistance.<\/p>\n<p>But, if that was not enough, we recently discovered a place within 20 minutes of that offers private surgery if we should ever need it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"Private Surgery\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Private Surgery\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/PrivateSurgery.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"290\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>With a facility this close and convenient, we might just have to undergo some elective surgery.&#160; I am sure it is cheap and we could always use a good appendectomy or lobotomy!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><small><em>NOTE: This is obviously written tongue in cheek&#8230; but in all honesty, we do have access to surgical services within an hour of us, and &quot;first world medicine&quot; is available just across the South African border.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our friends and family members have expressed concern about the quality of health care here in Swaziland, so I wanted to do a quick post to set their minds at ease.&#160; Most people are aware that here on the mission we actually have two clinics: one specializing in HIV \/ TB and another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[299,706,707],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-swaziland","tag-health-care","tag-medicine","tag-surgery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}