{"id":45546,"date":"2022-03-30T06:20:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T06:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-sudan-rwandan-peacekeepers-provide-free-medical-services-to-displaced\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T06:24:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T06:24:52","slug":"south-sudan-rwandan-peacekeepers-provide-free-medical-services-to-displaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-sudan-rwandan-peacekeepers-provide-free-medical-services-to-displaced\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: Rwandan peacekeepers provide free medical services to displaced persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The medical exercise by Rwanda Formed Police Unit-One (RWAFPU-1) and Rwanda battalion in partnership with the humanitarian group, was launched on Monday, March 28, to provide awareness on prevention and control of Non Communicable Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a four-day humanitarian exercise, which is part of our human security activities and protection of civilians, who were displaced by violent conflicts,&#8221; said Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Faustin Kalimba, the contingent commander for RWAFPU-1, said.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of the medical outreach, Rwandan peacekeepers provided healthcare to 177 people, with focus mainly on diabetes and high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the patients were transferred to the hospital and the UN Level II clinic for further medical attention. Others were given medical advice including regular checkup,&#8221; CSP Kalimba said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41624 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/apeace.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41623 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aoutreach.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The medical units of the Rwandan Police and military peacekeepers deployed in Malakal, Upper Nile State under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), have launched a healthcare outreach for the communities displaced by violent conflicts and currently in the Protection of Civilian Camp (POC).}<\/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-45546","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\/45546","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=45546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45546"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45546"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}