{"id":24937,"date":"2016-04-27T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/migeprof-advises-on-children-mothers-health-care\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T05:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T05:42:24","slug":"migeprof-advises-on-children-mothers-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/migeprof-advises-on-children-mothers-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"MIGEPROF advises on children, mothers\u2019 health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Dr Diane Gashumba has requested Rwandans to put in more efforts in taking care of children and mothers\u2019 health to support government policy of building strong family units. }  <\/p>\n<p>She made the remark yesterday in Kageyo sector of Gicumbi district during the launch of Child and Mother Health Care Week under the known as \u2018integrated mother and child health week\u2019 at national level in Gicumbi district.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandans were reminded that saving the life of children and mothers must be everyone\u2019s responsibility especially husbands.<\/p>\n<p>She requested for concerted efforts in a drive of fighting against malaria which has become rampant in various parts of the country while mothers are on risks of being affected by the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to sustain and improve progress made in protecting children and mothers from whatever may expose their health to risks. This can only be achieved through everyone\u2019s commitment towards solving the matter,\u201d said the Minister. <\/p>\n<p>Gashumba asked all citizens to participate in parents\u2019 forum (Akagoroba k\u2019Ababyeyi) as a way of coming with new insights of saving children and mothers\u2019 lives. <\/p>\n<p>The Permanent secretary Ministry of Health, Ndimubanzi Patrick said that various programs planned during the one week campaign include; mobilization of parents to have their children access all scheduled immunizations on time, awakening citizens on embracing hygiene, family planning and fighting against malaria. He reminded citizens to remove ponds and clear bushes near their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The integrated mother and child health week will end on April 29th 2016.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11978 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gashumba-3.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Dr Diane Gashumba addressing her remarks to Gicumbi residents \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11979 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abana-23.jpg\" alt=\"Children who attended  the launch of Child and Mother Health Care Week yesterday in Gicumbi district \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Dr Diane Gashumba has requested Rwandans to put in more efforts in taking care of children and mothers\u2019 health to support government policy of building strong family units. } She made the remark yesterday in Kageyo sector of Gicumbi district during the launch of Child and Mother Health [&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-24937","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\/24937","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=24937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24937"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24937"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}