{"id":315774,"date":"2026-03-06T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315774\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:35:09","slug":"australian-woman-almost-loses-both-legs-during-philippines-holiday-after-bridge-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315774\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian woman almost loses both legs during Philippines holiday after bridge collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt took multiple people to pull her out, revealing the extent of her injuries \u2013 including a pole that had pierced through her leg and severe damage to her ankle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jennifer Keenan was injured when a makeshift bridge she was crossing in the Philippines collapsed.<\/p>\n
As they were on a small island, Keenan couldn\u2019t be taken to a hospital. Instead, she was taken to a small medical centre for treatment, news.com.au reported. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just lay down on the kayak and I put my hat over my head \u2026 I just didn\u2019t want to go into shock,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was yelling at everyone to put gloves on \u2026 I was just freaking out. The room was just filled with all these people speaking this language I couldn\u2019t understand. They put some sort of pill in my mouth, which was an antibiotic. Then that was it, they put me back in the kayak and to a boat that was ready to take me to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n
She was put on a boat for two-and-a-half hours to be taken to the nearest hospital. <\/p>\n
Keenan has since been airlifted to Manila, where she is still recovering. <\/p>\n
The GoFundMe page has been created to support her as she recovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt took multiple people to pull her out, revealing the extent of her injuries \u2013 including a pole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,15408,1135,16717,3246,1565,42503,42501,2837,42,189,78033,1340,11517,5836,20832,43,4291,31532,40,38,41,39,8528,8238,1316,6123,1354],"class_list":["post-315774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-almost","tag-australian","tag-becoming","tag-both","tag-bridge","tag-collapsed","tag-collapses","tag-during","tag-headlines","tag-holiday","tag-holidaying","tag-legs","tag-loses","tag-lost","tag-makeshift","tag-news","tag-philippines","tag-rubble","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trapped","tag-under","tag-when","tag-while","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}