{"id":20711,"date":"2008-10-02T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/operation-walk\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T01:43:56","slug":"operation-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/10\/02\/operation-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Officials at the Plaza de la Salud have announced that &#8220;Operation Walk&#8221; will provide patients with free hip and knee replacements, beginning in March 2009. Foreign and Dominican doctors will perform the operations. Doctors will begin evaluating patients on 7 October and those interested should call (809) 565 &#8211; 7477 ext. 3000. Thomas Thornhill, who participated in the first Operation Walk, will once again be performing the procedures. On average these surgeries cost between RD$150,000 and RD$200,000 and the insurance providers rarely cover them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the Plaza de la Salud have announced that &#8220;Operation Walk&#8221; will provide patients with free hip and knee replacements, beginning in March 2009. Foreign and Dominican doctors will perform the operations. Doctors will begin evaluating patients on 7 October and those interested should call (809) 565 &#8211; 7477 ext. 3000. Thomas Thornhill, who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/10\/02\/operation-walk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}