{"id":6158,"date":"2013-06-26T08:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:15:58","slug":"mandelas-ex-doc-arrives-at-his-bedside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6158","title":{"rendered":"Mandela&#8217;s ex-doc arrives at his bedside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ramlakan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6159\" alt=\"ramlakan\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ramlakan-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ramlakan-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ramlakan.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dr Vejay Ramlakan arrived on Wednesday at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, where former president Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramlakan is the country&#8217;s former surgeon-general. He stepped down earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">His car was not searched by the police and security guards when he arrived at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security at the private hospital has been increased since Mandela was admitted on June 8 with a recurring lung infection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police started searching vehicles entering the facility at about 5am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Tshwane metro police officers barricaded part of Celliers Street, leading to the hospital&#8217;s main entrance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Numerous traffic patrol cars were also in the area. &#8211; SAPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Vejay Ramlakan arrived on Wednesday at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, where former president Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition. Ramlakan is the country&#8217;s former surgeon-general. He stepped down earlier this year. His car was not searched by the police and security guards when he arrived at the hospital. Security at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mandela&#8217;s ex-doc arrives at his bedside&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3491,327,3492],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-dr-ramlakan","tag-mandela","tag-surgeon-general"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ramlakan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6161,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}