{"id":3527,"date":"2026-01-04T20:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:18:18","slug":"wc-hospitals-treat-more-than-74-300-people-over-the-festive-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3527\/","title":{"rendered":"WC hospitals treat more than 74\u00a0300 people over the festive period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The Western Cape Health Department has revealed that more than 74\u00a0300 people were admitted to hospital emergency centers over the festive period.<\/p>\n<p>From December last year to January 2nd, 18 600 trauma cases and 52\u00a0200 medical admissions were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Chief operating officer for the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness, Dr. Saadiq Kariem, says the province&#8217;s emergency centers treated 254 people for gunshot wounds during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Kariem says 3350 people were treated for stabbings, 307 for sexual offenses, along with 66 child abuse cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were 4747 blunt assault cases, 626 motor vehicle accidents, 615 pedestrian-vehicle accidents, and 2940 accidents.&#8221; He added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Cape Health Department has revealed that more than 74\u00a0300 people were admitted to hospital emergency centers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-3527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}