{"id":1933,"date":"2026-05-25T23:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:16:02","slug":"emergency-do-not-use-whatsapp-or-email-call-119-or-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/news\/emergency-do-not-use-whatsapp-or-email-call-119-or-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency? Do not use WhatsApp or email. Call 119 or the hospital."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"op-alert\">\n<div>\n<p>\n      For medical emergencies, do not contact us by WhatsApp or email.<br \/>\n      These channels are not monitored 24 hours a day and cannot guarantee a timely response.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      If you need urgent medical attention:\n    <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83d\udea8 Call 119 for an ambulance in Japan<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udcde Call the hospital directly: <strong>+81-72-445-9915<\/strong> <em>(Japanese only)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n      WhatsApp and email are for non-urgent enquiries only, such as appointments,<br \/>\n      general questions, and interpreting requests.<br \/>\n      We cannot provide diagnosis, medical judgement, or treatment instructions by WhatsApp or email.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For medical emergencies, do not contact us by WhatsApp or email. These channels are not monitored 24 hours a day and cannot guarantee a timely response. If you need urgent medical attention: \ud83d\udea8 Call 119 for an ambulance in Japan \ud83d\udcde Call the hospital directly: +81-72-445-9915 (Japanese only) WhatsApp and email are for non-urgent enquiries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-alert-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kishiwada.tokushukai.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}