{"id":4740,"date":"2017-01-05T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2017-01-05T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:50:32","slug":"cholera-contained-in-cibitoke-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cholera-contained-in-cibitoke-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholera contained in Cibitoke Province\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4746\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4746\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cholera-Cibitoke-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Cross agents on the field helping in the fight against cholera in Cibitoke province \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cholera-Cibitoke-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cholera-Cibitoke-2-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cholera-Cibitoke-2.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Red Cross agents on the field helping in the fight against cholera in Cibitoke province<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOut of 31 people who were infected by cholera in Cibitoke district, 11 have now recovered and fortunately no one died\u201d, says Dr Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>He says the situation is under control, the program for fight against epidemic diseases has enough medications. \u201cPatients are treated freely and the Red Cross is helping us disinfect their houses in order to protect others\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge people especially in the most affected areas (Mparambo I and II, Gabiro Ruvyagira and Munyika) to follow hygienic conditions such as washing their hands before eating, drinking\u00a0 boiled water, cleaning toilets consistently, doing the dishes with a soap\u2026etc\u201d, says the spokesman of the Public Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of people infected by cholera have been recorded since Friday 29th December 2016 .The main cause of the disease in Cibitoke province is the shortage of water in the area which pushes people to drink and use dirty water from the Nyakagunda River.<\/p>\n<p>Aurore Ishimwe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOut of 31 people who were infected by cholera in Cibitoke district, 11 have now recovered and fortunately no one died\u201d, says Dr Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. He says the situation is under control, the program for fight against epidemic diseases has enough medications. \u201cPatients are treated freely and the Red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[739,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}