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<\/figure>\nThe Ministry of Health and University Teaching Hospital (CHUK) are
\nsaddened by the unfortunate death of 12-year-old Jessica Ishimwe who
\npassed away on the morning of Thursday 10th November 2011, at the
\nhospital.<\/p>\n
Ishimwe had been hospitalized in CHUK for two years suffering from a
\nrare and complicated genetically inherited disease with no known
\npreventive measures and curative treatment<\/p>\n
Ever since this disease was diagnosed six years ago, a team of Medical
\nexperts at CHUK has been administering supportive or palliative
\ntreatment with expert advice from specialists coming from Europe and
\nNorth America.<\/p>\n
Despite this treatment, the young Jessica passed away and we can only
\nhope that one day, Researchers and Scientists will be able to provide
\nhealth professionals with the prescription to treat this kind of
\nillness not only in Rwanda but across the world.<\/p>\n
The entire health sector wishes to extend its sincere condolences to
\nthe parents of Jessica, her friends and well-wishers during these sad
\nmoments.<\/p>\n
May her soul rest in eternity!<\/p>\n
Dr. Agnes Binagwaho
\nMinister of Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
{{After complaints from the public, the Ministry of Health has released a press statement regarding the death of the 12 years old Jessica Ishimwe Igihozo and below is the statement from the Ministry of Health as sent through emails to different media houses.}} PRESS STATEMENT {{The unfortunate death of ISHIMWE Jessica}} The Ministry of Health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[356],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-ministry-of-health"],"bylines":[{"id":356,"name":"Ministry of Health","slug":"ministry-of-health","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":356,"name":"Ministry of Health","slug":"ministry-of-health","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}