{"id":573330,"date":"2026-03-30T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573330\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:00:10","slug":"nrl-news-2026-tui-kamikamica-of-melbourne-storm-rushed-to-hospital-after-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573330\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026, Tui Kamikamica of Melbourne Storm rushed to hospital after stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne<\/a> forward Tui Kamikamica has been rushed to hospital following a suspected stroke on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

The Storm said the hulking prop is “recovering in hospital”.<\/p>\n

“He has undergone treatment for a suspected stroke,” a club statement read.<\/p>\n

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“Tui is receiving the best possible care and is being supported by hospital specialists, alongside the club’s medical staff.<\/p>\n

Kamikamica, 31, is a Fijian national who arrived at Melbourne in 2017 and played two NRL games that year.<\/p>\n

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Tui Kamikamica of the Storm.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

He’s amassed 142 appearances for the Storm since then, but missed the 2020 grand final when they beat Penrith to win the title.<\/p>\n

Kamikamica played all four games this season to date, starting at lock or on the bench in Craig Bellamy’s side.<\/p>\n

He played off the bench in Saturday night’s shock loss to North Queensland<\/a>, making nine runs in 25 minutes on the field.<\/p>\n

The news follows a dire run of injuries for Melbourne.<\/p>\n

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Fellow forward Eli Katoa was ruled out for the entire season following a nasty head clash<\/a> while playing for Tonga late last year.<\/p>\n

Melbourne have also lost gun winger Xavier Coates to injury long-term.<\/p>\n

They next face the in-form Penrith on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne forward Tui Kamikamica has been rushed to hospital following a suspected stroke on Monday morning. The Storm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-573330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}