{"id":354669,"date":"2026-03-30T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:45:08","slug":"nrl-star-in-hospital-after-suspected-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354669\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL star in hospital after suspected stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">The Melbourne Storm have been rocked with prop Tui Kamikamica in hospital following a suspected stroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Fiji-born 31-year-old had a medical episode on Monday and was rushed to hospital, with the club confirming the shock diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;He has undergone treatment for a suspected stroke and is recovering in hospital,&#8221; the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Tui is receiving the best possible care and is being supported by hospital specialists, alongside the club&#8217;s medical staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Storm had already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/03\/24\/tonga-star-may-never-play-again-after-brain-injury-storm-coach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost fellow forward Eli Katoa for the season<\/a> after he required brain surgery due to bleeding on the brain following a series of head knocks while playing for Tonga last November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fiji captain Kamikamica played for Melbourne in Saturday night&#8217;s tight NRL loss to North Queensland, coming off the bench for 25 minutes of game time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Melbourne Storm have been rocked with prop Tui Kamikamica in hospital following a suspected stroke. The Fiji-born&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,134,111,139,577,69,213],"class_list":["post-354669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nrl","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354669","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=354669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}