{"id":90831,"date":"2017-02-22T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90831"},"modified":"2017-02-22T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:23:12","slug":"paramedics-called-to-assist-b-c-mla-after-health-issue-at-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/22\/paramedics-called-to-assist-b-c-mla-after-health-issue-at-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramedics called to assist B.C. MLA after health issue at legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90832\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14716267_1246667158738570_6609021696625729200_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90832\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14716267_1246667158738570_6609021696625729200_n.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Sultan, the Liberal member for West Vancouver-Capilano, was escorted from the chamber by several legislature members and treated shortly afterwards by paramedics on Wednesday. (Photo: MLA Ralph Sultan\/ Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14716267_1246667158738570_6609021696625729200_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14716267_1246667158738570_6609021696625729200_n-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Sultan, the Liberal member for West Vancouver-Capilano, was escorted from the chamber by several legislature members and treated shortly afterwards by paramedics on Wednesday. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sultanralph\">MLA Ralph Sultan\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VICTORIA \u2013Paramedics were called to British Columbia&#8217;s legislature to treat a member of the house who fell ill during question period.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Sultan, the Liberal member for West Vancouver-Capilano, was escorted from the chamber by several legislature members and treated shortly afterwards by paramedics on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sultan, who is 84, has experienced health issues in the past at the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were seen wheeling a stretcher to the area of the legislature where Sultan was waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy premier Rich Coleman told the legislature shortly after paramedics arrived that Sultan was not feeling well during question period but was later feeling better.<\/p>\n<p>He says Sultan believes he was suffering from a minor flu, but will be back at the legislature soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA \u2013Paramedics were called to British Columbia&#8217;s legislature to treat a member of the house who fell ill during question &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,483],"tags":[15642,15643],"class_list":["post-90831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","category-politics","tag-paramedics","tag-ralph-sultan","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}