{"id":175264,"date":"2020-12-16T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/helen-joseph-hospital-should-find-alternative-halaal-food-supplier\/"},"modified":"2020-12-16T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T12:45:07","slug":"helen-joseph-hospital-should-find-alternative-halaal-food-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/helen-joseph-hospital-should-find-alternative-halaal-food-supplier\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Joseph Hospital should find alternative Halaal food supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/helen-joseph-hospital-should-find-alternative-halaal-food-supplier\/\">Helen Joseph Hospital should find alternative Halaal food supplier<\/a>: <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"simple-love-fix\" data-id=\"2707\" value=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p>Muslims are understandably dismayed by a circular issued this week by the Helen Joseph Hospital that Halaal food services are terminated from 15 December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to the hospital \u201cdue to unforeseen circumstances we would not be able to cater for any Halaal certified meals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is most unfortunate as observant Muslim patients will not eat non-Halaal food, and this will adversely affect both their physical and mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is worsened by the restriction on visitors due to COVID-19, so family members are prevented from bringing in Halaal food.<\/p>\n<p>I have alerted Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi to this matter and I hope she takes urgent action to ensure that Halaal food is available at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Bloom MPL<\/strong><br \/> <em>DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/helen-joseph-hospital-should-find-alternative-halaal-food-supplier\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\" rel=\"noopener\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Joseph Hospital should find alternative Halaal food supplier: Dear Johannesburg Muslims are understandably dismayed by a circular issued this week by the Helen Joseph Hospital that Halaal food services are terminated from 15 December 2020. According to the hospital \u201cdue to unforeseen circumstances we would not be able to cater for any Halaal certified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[2221,4462,133,11251,5301,616,2989,4017,10188],"class_list":{"0":"post-175264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-alternative","8":"tag-find","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-halaal","11":"tag-helen","12":"tag-hospital","13":"tag-joseph","14":"tag-should","15":"tag-supplier","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}