{"id":19618,"date":"2015-05-26T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/chuk-to-treat-over-3000-patients-in-a-special\/"},"modified":"2015-05-26T05:47:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T05:47:43","slug":"chuk-to-treat-over-3000-patients-in-a-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/chuk-to-treat-over-3000-patients-in-a-special\/","title":{"rendered":"CHUK to treat over 3000 patients in a Special Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Kigali University Hospital (CHUK) will conduct a countrywide special program of treating about 3200 patients who have been struggling to get special treatment of their illness.}<\/p>\n<p>Among the patients there is the son of  Nyiramuhire  Marie  Odette  residence  of  Kayonza  district  in  eastern  province,  who  have been struggling for medical operation service for her Son.<\/p>\n<p>Her  8 years  old  son got  a problem  of  testicles  that  entered   inside  the  body and there has been two months since the Ruli and Rwinkwavu Hospitals tried to treat him; unfortunately nothing has changed to that illness.<\/p>\n<p>Nyiramuhire has been waiting for her son\u2019s treatment for long time and she is also expecting her son who has also backache which pains him very   much to be opearted.<\/p>\n<p>Another  one  waiting  to  be  treated  by  this  hospital  is  Kanamugire  Jean  Nepomuscene  also  who  has an illness that  caused  the inside part of his nose to  come  out.<\/p>\n<p>He came for treatment in CHUK, after trying   Mayange Hospital in Bugesera District.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime patients are suffering due to the the delay of medical services as the hospital is still organizing the special program which starts from 15 June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>These  patients   and  others  say   that  they  have  different  problems  such  as lack  of  shelters as they wait for their schedules,  they  met  coldness  outside as well as   lacking  food  and   some  other  different  things.<\/p>\n<p>However in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, CHUK is going  to  start  with  such  patients  as it  was  confirmed  by  director  of  CHUK,  Doctor  Theobald  Hategekimana,  on  Thursday  21 may  2015.<\/p>\n<p>He  said  slow  service  is  caused  by  few  employees  they  have,   that  in  all  700  staffs  at CHUK  there are only  ten  surgical specialists  which is the problem behind the delay in operation services for the patients.<\/p>\n<p>It was observed that the hospital takes into consideration on how serious  of  the  disease  the  patient  has, when  she\/ he  has  given  local  treatment  service  then  he  must be operated  in  a certain  period  of  time  \u201cthere  is  no  problem  we  do  it  and  we  start  with  those  who  are  seriously  sick.\u201d Hategekimana said<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile there is a big  number  of   patients  that  are  received  by  this  hospital due to the fact that many patients are referred to CHUK for such serious illness.<\/p>\n<p>It is said 75% of patients with such illness from 29 district hospitals are sent to this main hospital. This  number  joins  to  another  in  Kigali  who  don\u2019t   have  the district hospital.<\/p>\n<p>As a solution to  this  problem  the  hospital  has  planned  a special  program  of  treating  abaut  3200  patients  who  have  problems  of  operation.<\/p>\n<p>The  program of operation  which  is  being  prepared  starts  from  15  June  2015.<\/p>\n<p>Currently there is a consultation program to  show  well  who  are  those  that  need  to  be operated or  those who need another  usual  assistance  which  can  be given  by  district hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The program   will be conducted in CHUK with hospitals in Ruhengeri, Kibuye,  Nyagatare,  Nyamata  and  Kibungo.<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with U.S doctors and Rwandan government at least 500 specialists will be trained within seven years so as to be able to cope with the growing number of patients.<\/p>\n<p>{{ ( By Umutoni Zaharah, Edited by Ange de la Victoire D.) }} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Kigali University Hospital (CHUK) will conduct a countrywide special program of treating about 3200 patients who have been struggling to get special treatment of their illness.} Among the patients there is the son of Nyiramuhire Marie Odette residence of Kayonza district in eastern province, who have been struggling for medical operation service for her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000068674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[2446],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-19618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-umutoni-zaharah"],"bylines":[{"id":2446,"name":"Umutoni Zaharah","slug":"umutoni-zaharah","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":2446,"name":"Umutoni Zaharah","slug":"umutoni-zaharah","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":{"id":2000068674,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19618.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19618.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19618.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19618.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19618.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19618.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000068674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=19618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}