{"id":246945,"date":"2005-05-07T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/05\/pm-leaves-hospital"},"modified":"2005-05-07T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2005-05-07T17:34:32","slug":"pm-leaves-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/05\/pm-leaves-hospital","title":{"rendered":"PM Leaves Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The Bahamas Prime Minister walked out of hospital Friday morning after being released to continue recuperating at his home following the slight stroke he suffered earlier in the week.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Mr. Christie had been <a href=https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wmview.php?ArtID=5149>rushed to hospital<\/a> on Tuesday morning after waking up feeling light-headed and ill.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The red carpet was rolled out at the front entrance to Princess Margaret Hosputal as Mr. Christie, accompanied by his wife and others, walked down the hospital steps to a small crowd of well wishers who had gathered outside.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Remarkably, the first words from the Prime Minister&#8217;s mouth were not about himself, but about a 16 year-old girl he had met in the hospital only that morning. The young girl is a victim of a <a href=https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wmview.php?ArtID=5137>violent shooting<\/a> that has left her paralyzed. Mr. Christie was visibly affected by the young woamn&#8217;s ordeal saying, &#8220;I think my injury and ailment pale into insignificance when you see a child of sixteen who has suffered the way she has&#8221;.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Mr. Christie also had nothing but praise for the doctors and staff at the government medical facility saying he received, &#8220;the best treatment in the world&#8221; and that he actually &#8220;enjoyed&#8221; his stay.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>He especially thanked nursing officer Charlene Davis who took care of him from the time he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit to his release.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Dr. Perry Gomez, the PM&#8217;s personal physician said the Prime Minister is expected to finish his recuperation at home as well as follow a strict dietary and excercise program.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>NOTE:<\/B> Last chance to <a href=https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/gb\/sguestbk.htm>sign the PM&#8217;s &#8220;Get Well&#8221; card<\/a> as it will be deliverd to the Prime Minister, probably on Monday.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry Christie will continue to recuperate at home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}