{"id":32106,"date":"2017-01-26T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rubavu-kidney-patients-using-mutuelle-de-sante\/"},"modified":"2017-01-28T02:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T02:43:16","slug":"rubavu-kidney-patients-using-mutuelle-de-sante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rubavu-kidney-patients-using-mutuelle-de-sante\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubavu kidney patients using Mutuelle de sant\u00e9 denied treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rubavu residents have raised concern over the health centers\u2019 failure to give them treatment under Mutuelle de sant\u00e9 medical scheme, especially if their ailments are related to the kidney performance, referring most of them to seek medical check-up from Gisenyi Hospital where a Dialysis machine has been installed. } <\/p>\n<p>Munyaburanga Olive, a female caretaker of her husband suffering from a kidney ailment has told RBA that she is required to pay over Rwf 1 million per month to get medical attention. \u201cI pay Rwf 1,080,000 per month. We pay the hard-earned money for treatment, otherwise the patient would be dead by now. ,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>A number of patients and or their extended families in the area are said to have sold their properties to get money to foot medical bills leaving them wallowing in deeper poverty.  They have appealed for government intervention to allow them get kidney treatment  using Mutuelle de sant\u00e9.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are overwhelmed with huge medical bills. It would be better if the government helped us to get assisted using mutuelle de sant\u00e9,\u201d said one patient.  <\/p>\n<p>Maj. Dr. Kanyankore William, the director of Gisenyi Hospital said that almost 95 % of kidney patients use mutuelle de sant\u00e9 yet its insurance doesn\u2019t cover payments of kidney disease. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatients don\u2019t come to us because most of them use mutuelle de sant\u00e9. The equipment used to treat kidneys are expensive but we are holding discussions so that mutuelle de sant\u00e9 subscribers can be treated,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Gisenyi is among the four Hospitals in Rwanda with kidney treatment capabilities. Others include King Faisal Hospital, University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) andUniversity Teaching Hospital of Butare (CHUB).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17826 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gisenyi-2-54e10.jpg\" alt=\"Rubavu hospital\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rubavu residents have raised concern over the health centers\u2019 failure to give them treatment under Mutuelle de sant\u00e9 medical scheme, especially if their ailments are related to the kidney performance, referring most of them to seek medical check-up from Gisenyi Hospital where a Dialysis machine has been installed. } Munyaburanga Olive, a female caretaker of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32106","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=32106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32106"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32106"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}