United States of America permanent representative to the UN Suzan Rice has said that she was very much impressed by steps taken in Rwanda’s health sector.
The USA envoy who is in the country has just toured different departments of the Masaka Health center to witness and get first hand information about Rwanda’s progress in the sector.
As she said while addressing health center employees and different guests at the center, Rice will get back home after visiting different sectors including Education, Agriculture and health sectors to know their performance.
“I am very much impressed by steps taken and the progress made in health sector in Rwanda, I have also gone to other countries in the region, what you are doing hear is very special,” Rice said while addressing Masaka Health Center staff after touring the center.
“Thanks for the very important work you do. It is most impressive good work. Thank you for the work,” Rice wrote in the visitors’ book.
Theodosiya Mukarwego a community health worker who explained to rice how they have intervened in health development said that they have been guiding manual to refer to whenever they are trying to help children and their mothers in fighting HIV/AIDS and Malaria.
“We have received several trainings that equip us to help patients that come to us, we have hotline cell phones where they can get whether finding us home or here at the health center,” Mukarwego said while explaining how she does her work to the US envoy.
Marie-Goreth Nyirabahutu the head of Masaka Health center said that Rice’s visit was instrumental since the health center is funded by her government through Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF).
Nyirabahutu said that the health center deals with all health cases with much emphasis on HIV/AIDS testing, giving of anti-retroviral drugs, prevention of Mother-to-child HIV transmission and malaria.
The foundation (EGPAF) has supported this year’s health center budget mounting Rwf 35 million, according to Nyirabahutu.
She said that she has observed tremendous decline in malaria in the area surrounding the health center due to different strategies and policies in place to cub the disease.
“Previously we used to receive between 500-1000 but starting last year number of malaria cases begun to decrease whereby we only received 5 cases last month,” Nyirabahutu said in a separate interview with igihe.com.
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