{"id":197,"date":"2015-03-09T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediahouse.design-files.co.uk\/?p=197"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:03:51","slug":"mail-online-exclusive-for-mercy-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/mail-online-exclusive-for-mercy-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Online Exclusive for Mercy Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we secured a Mail Online exclusive for our client Mercy Ships, an international hospital ship charity that sails to different countries in Africa to provide free medical care to those most in need.<\/p>\n<p>The team of expert surgeons, which included British volunteers, on board recently removed the largest tumour ever seen by the charity since being founded in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Sambany, the patient from Madagascar, walked for three days to visit the hospital ship which is docked in the port city of Toamasina.<\/p>\n<p>The patient\u2019s tumour had been growing out of his left cheek for 30-40 years, and weighed 16.45lbs (7.46kg). It was twice the size of his head when he visited Mercy Ships.<\/p>\n<p>It is a truly remarkable story and is the perfect example of just some of the incredible, life changing work that this charity does.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Daily Mail coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2952590\/Desperate-grandfather-one-stone-tumour-measured-TWICE-size-head-removed-walking-three-days-seek-help.html#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we secured a Mail Online exclusive for our client Mercy Ships, an international hospital ship charity that sails to different countries in Africa to provide free medical care&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediahouseinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}