{"id":43159,"date":"2021-03-25T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/health-minister-joins-mico-the-best-in-anti-tuberculosis-campaign\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:04:27","slug":"health-minister-joins-mico-the-best-in-anti-tuberculosis-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/health-minister-joins-mico-the-best-in-anti-tuberculosis-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister joins Mico The Best in anti-Tuberculosis campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to IGIHE, Mico The Best thanked Minister Ngamije for joining him in the anti-Tuberculosis campaign and delivering a message mobilizing Rwandans to prevent Tuberculosis and go for diagnosis.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Dr.  Ngamije joined us in anti-Tuberculosis campaign and delivered a message to be conveyed during my concert featuring performances of Riderman,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>World Tuberculosis Day is observed on 24th March each year with the aim of spreading public awareness about the global epidemic of Tuberculosis and efforts to eliminate the disease.<\/p>\n<p> The theme of World Tuberculosis Day 2021 is &#8216;The Clock is Ticking&#8217;. The theme has been chosen as it \u2018conveys the sense that the world is running out of time to act on the commitments to end TB made by global leaders\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>In his message, Minister Ngamije said that Rwanda expended much effort to take care of Tuberculosis patients amidst Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that workers from all health facilities have been equipped with modern equipment for the treatment of Tuberculosis.  <\/p>\n<p>Among others, the country has decentralized health services whereby patients receive drugs for free until they recover.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has also reinforced the capacity of community health workers with a view to completely eradicate Tuberculosis by 2035.  <\/p>\n<p>On World Tuberculosis Day, Mico The Best staged a virtual concert featuring performance by renowned rapper Riderman.  <\/p>\n<p>Mico The Best joined awareness campaign against Tuberculosis (TB) since March last year.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38157 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mico.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Health, Dr. Daniel Ngamije has joined Rwanda\u2019s Afro-beat singer, Prosper Turatsinze a.k.a Mico The Best in the anti-Tuberculosis campaign.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Health, Dr. Daniel Ngamije has joined Rwanda\u2019s Afro-beat singer, Prosper Turatsinze a.k.a Mico The Best in the anti-Tuberculosis campaign.<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/43159","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43159"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43159"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}