{
  "id": 12780757,
  "title": "The amplified ripple: When waiting becomes the disease",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/the-amplified-ripple-when-waiting-becomes-the-disease",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-08T04:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/the-star/opinion/2026-10-08-the-amplified-ripple-when-waiting-becomes-the-disease/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An eight-month delay in one family’s cancer-care journey reflects wider failures in Gauteng’s public oncology system, where diagnostic and treatment waiting times can place curable disease at greater risk.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}