{"id":521054,"date":"2026-08-11T23:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/child-waiting-for-help-for-a-heart-transplant-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:07:25","slug":"child-waiting-for-help-for-a-heart-transplant-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/child-waiting-for-help-for-a-heart-transplant-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Child waiting for help for a heart transplant passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santiago.<\/strong> Noah Jos\u00e9 Tapia, the eight-year-old boy who remained admitted to the Dr. Arturo Grull\u00f3n Regional University Children&#8217;s Hospital while battling dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease that had severely deteriorated his health and for which he needed a heart transplant, passed away this Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last few weeks, the minor&#8217;s family had made a public appeal to the authorities and the population seeking support to arrange his transfer to a specialized medical center abroad, where he could receive the treatment he urgently required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His father, Junio Antonio Tapia, had reported that Noah had been hospitalized for almost two months and that his condition was critical. The family even requested the intervention of President Luis Abinader and First Lady Raquel Arbaje, in the hope of expediting the efforts to save his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recommend reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news of his passing has caused dismay among those who followed his case closely and showed solidarity with the campaign to obtain the medical assistance he needed. So far, the family members have not offered details regarding the funeral services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago. Noah Jos\u00e9 Tapia, the eight-year-old boy who remained admitted to the Dr. Arturo Grull\u00f3n Regional University Children&#8217;s Hospital while battling dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease that had severely deteriorated his health and for which he needed a heart transplant, passed away this Tuesday. Over the last few weeks, the minor&#8217;s family had made a public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2by6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}