{
  "id": 776582,
  "title": "Tambo Memorial stoma bag shortage ‘traced back to 2023’, despite health department’s assurances",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/tambo-memorial-stoma-bag-shortage-traced-back-to-2023-despite-health",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-13T13:41:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Citizen",
    "slug": "the-citizen",
    "url": "https://www.citizen.co.za/news/tambo-memorial-stoma-bag-shortage-traced-back-to-2023-despite-health-departments-assurances/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The stoma shortage is allegedly not confined to Tambo Memorial Hospital.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
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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."
}