{"id":13457,"date":"2017-12-30T06:32:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=13457"},"modified":"2017-12-30T06:32:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:32:41","slug":"syria-war-evacuations-of-critically-ill-people-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/12\/30\/syria-war-evacuations-of-critically-ill-people-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria war: Evacuations of critically ill people completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A final group of medical evacuees has left the besieged Eastern Gouta, near the Syrian capital, Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine people in urgent need of medical assistance have now been transferred to the capital in a deal with the Syrian government.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian authorities had agreed to accept urgent cases, in return for the release of government workers captured by the rebel group, Jaish al-Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Two people on the original list died before they could be evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>About 400,000 residents in the district have been under siege by government forces since 2013, and are running short of food and fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has a list of almost 500 people it says are in urgent need of medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamad Katoub, from the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), a medical relief organisation that supports hospitals in rebel-held Syria, said all the 29 evacuees were now out of the Eastern Ghouta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A final group of medical evacuees has left the besieged Eastern Gouta, near the Syrian capital, Damascus. Twenty-nine people in urgent need of medical assistance have now been transferred to the capital in a deal with the Syrian government. The Syrian authorities had agreed to accept urgent cases, in return for the release of government workers captured by the rebel group, Jaish al-Islam. Two people on the original list died before they could be evacuated. About 400,000 residents in the district have been under siege by government forces since 2013,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13459,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions\/13459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}