{"id":526238,"date":"2026-07-14T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526238\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:25:08","slug":"queenstown-family-mourns-daughter-7-who-died-hours-after-hospital-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526238\/","title":{"rendered":"Queenstown family mourns daughter, 7, who died hours after hospital visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Maite was a \u201chappy, healthy little girl with no underlying medical conditions\u201d, the page read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">The family were now facing an \u201coverwhelming\u201d financial burden to arrange a funeral for their only child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNo parent ever imagines having to say goodbye to their child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs a young family living and working in Queenstown, we are now facing the unimaginable heartbreak of losing our daughter, with the overwhelming financial burden of arranging her farewell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The devastated family have set up a Givealittle page to help pay for Maite\u2019s funeral expenses and repatriation to Chile. Photo \/ Givealittle\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The devastated family have set up a Givealittle page to help pay for Maite\u2019s funeral expenses and repatriation to Chile. Photo \/ Givealittle<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">The family are not eligible for Government assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">More than 500 people have donated more than $23,500 since the page opened on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maite was a \u201chappy, healthy little girl with no underlying medical conditions\u201d, the page read. The family were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49384,5835,74,682,14032,6179,15969,2109,71,6868,51500,5110,2241,11551,5511,6093,34535,111,43,139,69,20930,9863,1299],"class_list":["post-526238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-49384","tag-7yearold","tag-after","tag-being","tag-daughter","tag-died","tag-discharged","tag-family","tag-from","tag-girl","tag-happy","tag-healthy","tag-hospital","tag-hours","tag-just","tag-little","tag-mourns","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-queenstown","tag-visit","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526238","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=526238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}