{"id":39765,"date":"2023-10-22T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=39765"},"modified":"2023-10-22T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T12:05:00","slug":"officers-action-assists-pregnant-woman-in-medical-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=39765","title":{"rendered":"Officers action assists pregnant woman in medical distress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MOUNT UNIACKE:<\/strong> The quick actions of two East Hants RCMP officers led to a positive outcome for a pregnant woman in Mount Uniacke on Oct. 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Const. Preston Burns with East Hants RCMP, an officer was travelling on Hwy 101 when he spotted a vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said the officer initiated a traffic stop and made contact with the driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe driver quickly explained that his pregnant passenger\u2019s blood sugar monitor had fallen off, not warning her that her blood sugars were extremely low,\u201d said Const. Burns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe was quickly slipping into diabetic shock and needed sugar immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said the officer radioed another officer and had him attend the scene with a sugary beverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe female drank the beverage and started feeling better and was more responsive,\u201d said Const. Burns. \u201cFortunately, the member\u2019s quick action averted a potential catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the driver was deemed fit to transport the woman to the hospital for a check up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said the woman and her baby are reported to be doing fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotrate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] MOUNT UNIACKE: The quick actions of two East Hants RCMP officers led to a positive outcome for a pregnant woman in Mount Uniacke on Oct. 14. According to Const. Preston Burns with East Hants RCMP, an officer was travelling on Hwy 101 when he spotted a vehicle travelling at a high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[5647,196,121,315,14],"class_list":["post-39765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-diabetic-shock","tag-east-hants","tag-hrm","tag-mount-uniacke","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}