{"id":112108,"date":"2023-10-18T18:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=112108"},"modified":"2023-10-18T18:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:45:04","slug":"news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=112108","title":{"rendered":"News24 | Rural doctor of the year reflects on the rutted road to quality healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Dr Bukiwe Spondo, being a doctor does not feel like a job. &#8220;When you do something you love, it doesn&#8217;t feel like a job,&#8221; she says. In 2012, having observed how patients stopped taking treatment due to travel costs, she started driving up to 40 kilometres \u2026<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/health\/spotlight\/rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare-20231016\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Dr Bukiwe Spondo, being a doctor does not feel like a job. &#8220;When you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare.jpg",718,519,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare-300x217.jpg",300,217,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare.jpg",640,463,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare.jpg",640,463,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare.jpg",718,519,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare.jpg",718,519,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare.jpg",718,519,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare.jpg",718,519,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112108-news24-rural-doctor-of-the-year-reflects-on-the-rutted-road-to-quality-healthcare-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}