{
  "id": 12826300,
  "title": "Iron cage beds at elderly home in Thailand fuel anger, owner defends ‘innovation’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/iron-cage-beds-at-elderly-home-in-thailand-fuel-anger-owner-defends",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T08:33:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3370178/iron-cage-beds-elderly-home-thailand-fuel-anger-owner-defends-innovation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A care scandal has erupted in Thailand after a nursing home was exposed for confining old and sick residents in beds covered by iron cages with barely a foot of space above their heads. Images of bedridden patients at the Sothornchai Nursing Home in Kanchanaburi, western Thailand, have shocked Thais since they were shared earlier this week on the television current affairs show Hone Krasae.…",
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  "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."
}