{"id":152,"date":"2004-08-09T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=152"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:17","slug":"heart_to_heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/heart_to_heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart to Heart in the Third World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some african countries, their own health systems crippled by brain drain, begin to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3935861.stm\">outsource cardiac surgery <\/a>to India. &#8220;Heart operations are comparatively inexpensive in India compared to the West. Open heart surgery in a private Indian hospital typically costs around $4,000, compared to $30,000 abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some african countries, their own health systems crippled by brain drain, begin to outsource cardiac surgery to India. &#8220;Heart operations are comparatively inexpensive in India compared to the West. Open heart surgery in a private Indian hospital typically costs around &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/heart_to_heart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}