December 2019 cbsnews; It was something, the silence. Nothing but the puff of her breath and the scuff of her slip-on shoes as Madeleine Mukantagara walked through the fields to her first patient of the day. Piercing cries once echoed down the hill to the road below. What she carried …
Read More »RWANDA:Rwanda bans shisha smoking following Tanzania’s lead
December 2017 BusinessDaily; President Paul Kagame’s government has become the latest in Africa to ban smoking of water-pipe tobacco, popularly known as shisha, starting Friday. Rwanda becomes the second country in Africa to ban shisha smoking after Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli imposed the ban in July last year. Other countries …
Read More »RWANDA: Govt Mulls HIV Self-Testing Kit
February 2017 TheNewTimes; The Ministry of Health is planning to introduce an HIV self-testing (HIVST) service to supplement existing testing services such as health facility-based or mobile voluntary testing and counselling. HIVST is regarded as an innovative approach that can rapidly increase access to and uptake of HIV testing services, …
Read More »RWANDA: Ruhango Residents Tipped on Mobile-Based Phone Health Consultation
November 2016 TheNewTimes; Babyl Rwanda, an innovative digital healthcare provider, on Friday, conducted a campaign in Ruhango District to raise awareness on a new system of consulting with doctors about health problems through a mobile phone The new way of consultation will be free of charge and beneficiaries can use …
Read More »MADAGASCAR: Drones Launch Off-Grid Healthcare in Rural Madagascar
October 2016 Aljazeera; Drones, initially developed for warfare, are being co-opted to provide revolutionary off-grid healthcare to those who live in the most remote parts of the world. A fully autonomous drone recently flew blood samples from rural Madagascar to a central lab. The drone was developed by Vayu, a …
Read More »More Lab Physicians Needed for Quality Medical Care in Region, Say Experts
October 2016 TheNewTimes; There is an increase in health facilities, including laboratories, with each dispensary, health centre or hospital having a laboratory in the East, Central and Southern Africa. However, despite this, these laboratories do not have enough qualified laboratory physicians (pathologists), it emerged yesterday. The issue came up at …
Read More »RWANDA: President Kagame Sacks Health Minister Over Corruption
July 2016 theEastAfrican; Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame today sacked the country’s Health Minister Dr Agnès Binagwaho, whose five-year term has been ridden with scandals. Social media users woke up to the news of the sacking of the minister, some tweeting ‘finally’, as the firing letter signed by the Prime Minister …
Read More »RWANDA: Telemedicine – the Future of Healthcare
June 2016 TheNewTimes; In an enclosed room at Rwanda Military Hospital in Kanombe, students listen attentively to instructions from a video interaction. This is part of their medical training, a session that allows them to interface with senior health professionals from top countries around the world. However, this practice is …
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