{"id":11426,"date":"2019-01-23T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=11426"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:29:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:29:45","slug":"burundi-to-set-up-two-scanners-at-borders-with-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-to-set-up-two-scanners-at-borders-with-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi to set up two scanners at borders with DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health says his ministry has ordered two scanners to facilitate the control of the free movement of people using Gatumba border and Bujumbura International Airport. \u201cThere are many people who pass through Gatumba border and need to be thoroughly controlled,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11423\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11423\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ebola-thermoflash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ebola-thermoflash.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ebola-thermoflash-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ebola-thermoflash-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ebola-thermoflash-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nurses using a thermoflash to measure temperature<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He also says his ministry plans to create an isolation transit center at Gatumba border and an integrated care center at Mudubugu area in Bujumbura Province. \u201cWe are properly equipped; doctors and nurses are also well trained to face the threat\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana has also announced that Burundi has now a GeneXpert device to diagnose suspected cases of Ebola virus disease. \u201cSuspected samples were previously sent to Uganda for analyses. But now, the National Health and Research Institute is able to deal with such screening,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2018, Ebola Virus Disease outbreak was reported at less than 400 km from Burundi and about 70 cases were registered in North Kivu and Ituri in the DRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health says his ministry has ordered two scanners to facilitate the control of the free movement of people using Gatumba border and Bujumbura International Airport. \u201cThere are many people who pass through Gatumba border and need to be thoroughly controlled,\u201d he says. He also says his ministry plans to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[108,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11427,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions\/11427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}