{"id":24858,"date":"2016-04-24T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/inadequate-knowledge-on-non-communicable-diseases\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T01:07:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:07:37","slug":"inadequate-knowledge-on-non-communicable-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/inadequate-knowledge-on-non-communicable-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Inadequate knowledge on non-communicable diseases worries Rusizi community health workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Community health workers in Rusizi district have said that inadequate knowledge on non-communicable diseases negatively affects their performance as they fail to tip citizens how they should act when they fall sick. } <\/p>\n<p>They revealed this mid last week to the senatorial commission in charge of social welfare and human rights during their tour in Rusizi, assessing and monitoring the implementation of government policies of fighting non communicable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Community health volunteers explained that they nowadays come across cases of illnesses in communities which they can\u2019t explain to citizens since they are not trained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry of health has trained us on some diseases but we are still unaware of other non communicable diseases including diabetes, blood pressure, cancer and hepatitis, \u201csaid Bizimana Innocent, one of Rusizi community health volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have inadequate knowledge on non communicable diseases since we didn\u2019t get any training. There should be trainings on such diseases so we can explain to citizens other than murmuring, \u201csaid Kanyarwanda Rashid.<\/p>\n<p>Honorable Niyongana Gallican said that after touring various districts, they will sit together with stakeholders to find a lasting solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are touring the country. After the tour, we will compile and compare identified problems which will enable us to establish the weight of the problem and collectively seek sustainable feasible solutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes and blood pressure are said to dominate other non communicable diseases in Rusizi district.<\/p>\n<p>Information from World Health Organization indicates that five million people across the World die of non communicable diseases every year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11907 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bamwe_mu_bafite_aho_bahuriye_n_inzego_z_ubuzima.jpg\" alt=\"Health care stakeholders at the visit of senatorial commission of social welfare and human rights\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Community health workers in Rusizi district have said that inadequate knowledge on non-communicable diseases negatively affects their performance as they fail to tip citizens how they should act when they fall sick. } They revealed this mid last week to the senatorial commission in charge of social welfare and human rights during their tour in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24858","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=24858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24858"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24858"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}