{"id":19139,"date":"2024-12-15T13:35:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/seven-tourists-in-fiji-hospital-with-suspected-alcohol-poisoning\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:35:59","slug":"seven-tourists-in-fiji-hospital-with-suspected-alcohol-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/seven-tourists-in-fiji-hospital-with-suspected-alcohol-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven tourists in Fiji hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Seven tourists in Fiji have been sent to hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning and are reported to be in a critical condition.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It is believed they drank cocktails at a resort bar on Saturday night local time and shortly afterwards, displayed nausea, vomiting and neurological symptoms.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Four of the seven are Australian, with ages ranging from 18 to 56, according to local media reports citing the health ministry.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The incident comes weeks after the <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c624kd71dj3o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\">deaths of six tourists in the South East Asian nation of Laos<!-- --><\/a> because of suspected methanol poisoning.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The tourists in Fiji, who were reportedly staying at a resort on the Coral Coast, were initially taken to Sigatoka Hospital.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">They were all later transferred to Lautoka Hospital, according to the Fiji Times. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Two Australian families in Fiji are receiving consular assistance, an Australian foreign ministry spokesperson told the BBC.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn08qdjwkkqo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven tourists in Fiji have been sent to hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning and are reported to be in a critical condition. It is believed they drank cocktails at a resort bar on Saturday night local time and shortly afterwards, displayed nausea, vomiting and neurological symptoms. Four of the seven are Australian, with ages ranging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19141,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139\/revisions\/19141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}