{"id":11605,"date":"2019-02-12T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2019-02-14T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T10:31:06","slug":"sick-burundians-faced-with-several-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/sick-burundians-faced-with-several-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Burundians faced with several challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From carelessness of health professionals to lack of medicines, sick Burundians say they suffer a number of problems.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11607\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11607\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sylvain.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sylvain.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sylvain-300x173.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sylvain-768x442.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sylvain-600x345.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvain Habanabakize: \u201cSick people in Burundi are still faced with a number of problems\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sylvain Habanabakize, spokesperson for the network of patients in Burundi-CEMABU says sick people still struggle to access adequate health care because of the irresponsible behavior of some health workers.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are some health professionals who still neglect patients. This is a bad behavior that should be discouraged by punishing anyone found responsible for such negligence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also says sick people especially those who work in public institutions and are members of the state owned health insurance organization-MFP complain because they are not given the prescribed medicines.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are not given recommended medicine yet they regularly contribute to their health insurance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Habanabakize also says there are hospitals that refuse to receive patients in critical situation because of the lack of a sum of money required before any treatment. \u201cOn this international day of sick people, we beg the Ministry of Health to find the solution to this problem,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He also says that the problem of holding the dead bodies of patients who are not able to pay the bills should be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>The World Day of the Sick is celebrated every February 11 and was first observed in 1993. Faith-based organizations mark this day especially by providing the sick with medicines, food, and spiritual guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From carelessness of health professionals to lack of medicines, sick Burundians say they suffer a number of problems. Sylvain Habanabakize, spokesperson for the network of patients in Burundi-CEMABU says sick people still struggle to access adequate health care because of the irresponsible behavior of some health workers. \u201cThere are some health professionals who still neglect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[113,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11608,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions\/11608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}