{
  "id": 276277,
  "title": "Crickets in the theatre and leaking wards: How Lawra Hospital is battling century-old decay to save lives",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/crickets-in-the-theatre-and-leaking-wards-how-lawra-hospital-is",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-07T17:23:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/crickets-in-the-theatre-and-leaking-wards-how-lawra-hospital-is-battling-century-old-decay-to-save-lives/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Lawra Municipal Hospital, a 98-year-old facility in the Upper West Region, is battling severe infrastructural decay, with medical staff recently forced to conduct emergency surgeries amid invading insects and deliver babies in wards with leaking roofs.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}