{"id":9336,"date":"2013-07-26T06:35:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T06:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/many-pregnant-women-not-seeking-antenatal\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T06:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T06:34:17","slug":"many-pregnant-women-not-seeking-antenatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/many-pregnant-women-not-seeking-antenatal\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Pregnant Women not Seeking Antenatal Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The State Minister in-charge of Public Health and Primary Healthcare has said a few expectant mothers seek antenatal services from health care facilities.}}<\/p>\n<p>Dr Anita Asiimwe made the observation Thursday during a scientific conference organised by the Rwanda Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cAlthough a lot has been achieved in Rwanda with regard to maternal health, we are still not content with the current maternal mortality rate; it remains very high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Asiimwe noted that about 67% of child mortality  happen during the neonatal period,  according to the minister.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that although traditional medicine had done a great job, there was still need to educate women and have them receive better services from proper health facilities. <\/p>\n<p>She urged obstetrics and gynaecologists in the country to carry out outreaches in areas without health providers. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Eugene Ngoga, the president of the Rwanda Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists, said that there are only 30 specialists in Rwanda which constitutes a huge challenge.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3311 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eeeew.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Anita Asiimwe\/Newtimes Photo <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The State Minister in-charge of Public Health and Primary Healthcare has said a few expectant mothers seek antenatal services from health care facilities.}} Dr Anita Asiimwe made the observation Thursday during a scientific conference organised by the Rwanda Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists. She said, \u201cAlthough a lot has been achieved in Rwanda with regard [&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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","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\/9336","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=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}