{"id":26122,"date":"2016-06-16T08:01:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T08:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/absentee-doctors-irk-binagwaho\/"},"modified":"2016-06-18T05:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T05:01:58","slug":"absentee-doctors-irk-binagwaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/absentee-doctors-irk-binagwaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Absentee doctors irk Binagwaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Health, Dr.Agnes Binagwaho has given an impromptu visit to the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) where she found that many medical doctors were not at their work stations. } <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI visited CHUK today. Many doctors were not at their work. Explanations are needed with sanctions for those without reasons of absence,\u201d twitted Binagwaho.<\/p>\n<p>CHUK is one of Rwanda\u2019s referral hospitals having specialists in treating various diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The director of CHUK, Dr Hategekimana Theobard has confirmed that Minister Binagwaho visited the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He said that some doctors had clear reasons for absence but others without clear reason will be investigated. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe visited the hospital at around 4:00 pm. Some doctors were present but others were absent over various reasons. Some had gone to Butare to supervise examinations. Some others had gone to supervise district hospitals. We are analyzing whether all had clear reasons so absent doctors can be punished after investigations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Theobald said the absence of doctors at the time of the minister\u2019s visit did not affect patients\u2019 access to services since most of them are treated during day while others have caretakers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo patient missed an appointment with a doctor yesterday for diagnosis and treatment,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>In recent four months five doctors have left CHUK while three others tendered in their resignations recently. In the last four years, 20 doctors have left CHUK. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Theobald said that temporary absence from duty is not as grave as exodus.  IGIHE has learnt that Minister Binagwaho will give other surprise visits to different hospitals in the country. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12834 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/98966c1d0bbf4631ad13d2fa760c8abe.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Health, Dr.Agnes Binagwaho\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Health, Dr.Agnes Binagwaho has given an impromptu visit to the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) where she found that many medical doctors were not at their work stations. } \u201cI visited CHUK today. Many doctors were not at their work. Explanations are needed with sanctions for those without reasons of absence,\u201d [&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-26122","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\/26122","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=26122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26122"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26122"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}