{"id":32444,"date":"2017-02-09T23:35:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/phones-banned-at-work-among-health-practitioners\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:28:11","slug":"phones-banned-at-work-among-health-practitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/phones-banned-at-work-among-health-practitioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Phones banned at work among health practitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Hospital managers and other health practitioners have pledged to ban the use of mobile phones at work a decision set to go into effect from 1st March 2017. } <\/p>\n<p>The pledge was made yesterday during a retreat that brought together health practitioners, administrative boards of hospitals, district leaders and the Minister of Health, Dr. Diane Gashumba.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of the Ministry of Health, Malick Kayumba has told IGIHE that the decision is not superimposed but rather a consensus reached among health practitioners following self-evaluation.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision has not been imposed by MINISANTE rather a consensus from their discussions. The decision came out as they evaluated themselves on health service delivery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The governance Scorecard presented on 31st January 2017 indicated that health service delivery scored low compared to other sectors at  72.93% last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18125 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_gashumba_wa_migeprof-2-2-34736.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Health, Dr.Diane Gashumba.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Hospital managers and other health practitioners have pledged to ban the use of mobile phones at work a decision set to go into effect from 1st March 2017. } The pledge was made yesterday during a retreat that brought together health practitioners, administrative boards of hospitals, district leaders and the Minister of Health, Dr. Diane [&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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/32444","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=32444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32444"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32444"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}