African countries need to revamp curriculums and methods used to teach medicine, to align with current global trends, influenced by technology, if they are to meet the ever-increasing demand for…
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What if I told you that the conventional idea of three meals a day might not be the best for your health? Or that skipping lunch and going to bed…
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PASC 2025: Rwanda Sets Forth To Implement Ambitious Plan To Improve Access To Surgical Care
by Edmund Kagire 9:35 pmRwanda is set to roll out key training and capacity building programmes that will not only improve access to surgical care locally, but also save the country millions spent seeking…
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Pan-African Surgeons Gather In Rwanda To Tackle Africa’s Critical Shortage of Surgical Professionals
by Edmund Kagire 8:14 amThe African continent is at the epicentre of the global surgical care crisis. By 2030, the continent will face a shortage of 6 million surgical care providers, leaving millions without…
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“Time To Take Full Ownership Of Our Challenges” – President Kagame To African Countries
by Edmund Kagire 7:18 pmPresident Paul Kagame says African countries cannot continue to outsource solutions for their from problems externally, yet they can find ways of addressing them financially, particularly those challenges that affect…
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A Surgeon Per District Hospital: African Surgeons Set To Meet In Rwanda To Explore Ways Of Advancing Surgical Care
by Edmund Kagire 5:19 pmRwanda is set to host a mega conference that will bring together more than 300 surgeons from across the continent and the world to discuss ways of address the critical…
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For the best part of a week, what on the face it seems like a paradoxical exercise, played out under the domed roof of Rwanda’s Kigali Convention Centre (KCC). The…
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At a Senate hearing last week, Health Minister Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana admitted that there were serious challenges within the primary healthcare system, telling lawmakers that at least 20% of the…
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Health Minister Says Ambulance Operators Who Used It To Ferry Cement Penalised
by Edmund Kagire 3:06 pmThe Minister of Health, Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, says individuals who used an ambulance to transport construction materials were penalised, after a video circulated on social media, showing unidentified men loading…
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Car Free Day: Rwandans Urged To Embrace Healthy, Active Lifestyles
by Edmund Kagire 3:53 pmRwandans have been called to embrace healthy and active lifestyles that contribute to their wellbeing and longevity, in the wake of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that are affecting many and becoming…
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Rwanda’s Ministry Of Health Confirms Presence Of Deadly Marburg Virus
by Edmund Kagire 4:00 pmRwanda has confirmed the presence of the Marburg virus disease (MVD), after several cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever were recorded in the country, amid claims of infections among health…
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President Kagame Promises Community Health Workers More Gov’t Support
by Edmund Kagire 3:44 pmPresident Paul Kagame on Saturday promised Community Health Workers that the government will do more, within the available resources, to support them in different ways in recognition of the work…
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