{"id":45936,"date":"2022-06-04T08:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T08:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-receives-medical-equipment-worth-rwf140-million-from-israel\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T08:34:16","slug":"rwanda-receives-medical-equipment-worth-rwf140-million-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-receives-medical-equipment-worth-rwf140-million-from-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda receives medical equipment worth Rwf140 million from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The donation is composed of 30 hospital beds and 1.5 tons of personal protective equipment (PPEs).<\/p>\n<p>Following the donation on Friday 3rd June 2022; the Director General of Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), Prof. Claude Mambo Muvunyi said that the medical equipment support is of great significance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to the State of Israel for this important donation. This will greatly contribute to our continuous efforts of equipping health facilities to better respond to Covid-19 and other infectious diseases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ambassador of Israel to Rwanda, Dr. Ron Adam, explained that the support results from good bilateral relations between the two countries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The need for hospital beds and PPEs was very acute during the Covid-19 period which we are still in. As the State of Israel, we made all efforts to support our sister country Rwanda in this regard, and I am happy and proud that finally we have made it,&#8221; said the Ambassador of Israel, Dr. Ron Adam.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rwanda Biomedical Center, the new medical beds will be used in University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK), University Teaching Hospital of Butare (CHUB) and Kibagabaga Hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Israel have been enjoying strong ties over the years, with cooperation in many sectors including education, energy, ICT and innovation, health and defense among others. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42571 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/is.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda has received medical equipment worth Rwf140 million from Israel. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The State of Israel has donated medical equipment worth Rwf140 million to the Government Rwanda, to strengthen the country&#8217;s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and other health threats.}<\/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-45936","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\/45936","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=45936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45936"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45936"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}