{"id":6553,"date":"2013-03-15T03:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/u-s-surgeons-at-gitwe-hospital-for-specialised\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T03:25:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T03:25:19","slug":"u-s-surgeons-at-gitwe-hospital-for-specialised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/u-s-surgeons-at-gitwe-hospital-for-specialised\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Surgeons at Gitwe Hospital for Specialised Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2193 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/amer.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{A team of 16 American surgeons is providing free operation to Rwandans suffering from various diseases considered locally difficult to treat including the goiter illness.}}<\/p>\n<p>Such free operation, which is provided twice a year, is being conducted at Gitwe Hospital located in Southern Province at a cost of US$ 25 million for the 36 patients.<\/p>\n<p>The 16 American surgeons came from different U.S. states including California, Texas, New York and others. <\/p>\n<p>They come in the context of cooperation with the Pedagogical Institute and Gitwe Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Emile Tuyishime, director of Gitwe Hospital found that people who have goiter have unprecedented chance to see it disappear without spending a penny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In other circumstances, a patient who had goiter surgery must pay one million and seven hundred thousand Rwandan francs ($2700),&#8221; he told IGIHE.<\/p>\n<p>For Dr. John H. Streit who leads the team of the specialists, their stay in Rwanda is made possible by the good relations between Rwanda and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the team is in the process of designing a project to launch a medical school in Rwanda to help increase the number and quality of physicians in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The American doctors have maintained cooperation with Gitwe hospital since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{A team of 16 American surgeons is providing free operation to Rwandans suffering from various diseases considered locally difficult to treat including the goiter illness.}} Such free operation, which is provided twice a year, is being conducted at Gitwe Hospital located in Southern Province at a cost of US$ 25 million for the 36 patients. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire"],"bylines":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}