{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Maverick","slug":"daily-maverick-7095670","podcast_index_feed_id":7095670,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/v9bQiEYF","website_url":"https://dailymaverick.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3bec838f-f991-4931-b05e-5de58c21103e/e9da61b8-6a21-4980-9681-d37797013724/3000x3000/podcast-20tile-20-20daily-20maverick-20v4.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Daily Maverick","episode_count":89,"summary":"Know more. Know better.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T04:20:52.396142+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-maverick-7095670"},"episode":{"title":"Somebody didn't care: how Grey's Hospital's failing air con became a surgical emergency","slug":"somebody-didn-t-care-how-grey-s-hospital-s-failing-air-con-became-a-surgical-emergency","published_at":"2026-04-15T14:36:44+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-maverick-7095670/somebody-didn-t-care-how-grey-s-hospital-s-failing-air-con-became-a-surgical-emergency","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-maverick-7095670","url":"https://dailymaverick.simplecast.com/episodes/somebody-didnt-care-how-greys-hospitals-failing-air-con-became-a-surgical-emergency-YpjNS2Pe","audio_url":"https://injector.simplecastaudio.com/c001af6d-0aa9-4451-ac6a-f1c4cf6202e2/episodes/e9b81e60-e1f4-42ae-a457-94e855e3320a/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=c001af6d-0aa9-4451-ac6a-f1c4cf6202e2&awEpisodeId=e9b81e60-e1f4-42ae-a457-94e855e3320a&feed=v9bQiEYF","summary":"Grey's Hospital in Pietermaritzburg is a surgical lifeline for 4.5 million people across western KwaZulu-Natal. For years, its ageing air conditioning system has been breaking down, forcing surgery cancellations and endangering patients. The department knew. It had a plan. The plan failed. Now it has another plan.","meta_description":"Grey's Hospital in Pietermaritzburg is a surgical lifeline for 4.5 million people across western KwaZulu-Natal. For years, its ageing air conditioning sys…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":342,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-maverick-7095670/episodes/somebody-didn-t-care-how-grey-s-hospital-s-failing-air-con-became-a-surgical-emergency/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-maverick-7095670/somebody-didn-t-care-how-grey-s-hospital-s-failing-air-con-became-a-surgical-emergency.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}