{"id":375541,"date":"2018-08-31T00:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T23:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/medical-emergency-at-white-house-staffer-hospitalized-photo-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T00:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T23:58:43","slug":"medical-emergency-at-white-house-staffer-hospitalized-photo-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/medical-emergency-at-white-house-staffer-hospitalized-photo-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical emergency at White House, staffer hospitalized (PHOTO) \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.08\/thumbnail\/5b8839f9fc7e9377238b45f4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 30 Aug, 2018 18:45 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 30 Aug, 2018 18:59 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        An ambulance arrived at the White House on Thursday after a reported medical emergency. An unidentified National Security Council staffer has been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The White House\u00a0confirmed that\u00a0the staffer had suffered a seizure.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs posted by journalists on social media showed an ambulance taking a stretcher into the West Wing at approximately 2pm eastern time. The identity of the staffer has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is a medical emergency at the White House right now. Sarah Sanders informs us that a staffer has suffered a seizure and is being taken for evaluation by ambulance from the West Wing doors. Secret Service have pushed the media back from our usual position for the moment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TBt4sZOCoN\">pic.twitter.com\/TBt4sZOCoN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EamonJavers\/status\/1035225952656261128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>CBS White House reporter Steven Portnoy tweeted that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the staffer is <em>&#8220;doing fine and being taken to the hospital out of precaution.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A White House staffer has been taken away in an ambulance. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a> says the individual is &#8220;doing fine and being taken to the hospital out of precaution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenportnoy\/status\/1035227873056047105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>DETAILS TO FOLLOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/437289-white-house-emergency-ambulance\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 30 Aug, 2018 18:45 Edited time: 30 Aug, 2018 18:59 An ambulance arrived at the White House on Thursday after a reported medical emergency. An unidentified National Security Council staffer has been taken to hospital. The White House\u00a0confirmed that\u00a0the staffer had suffered a seizure. Photographs posted by journalists on social media showed an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}