{"id":987521268,"date":"2021-07-29T03:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T02:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/malawi-govt-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-universal-health-coverage-uhc\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:09:08","slug":"malawi-govt-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-universal-health-coverage-uhc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/malawi-govt-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-universal-health-coverage-uhc\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Govt reaffirms its commitment to universal health coverage (UHC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Health and Population Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has reiterated the government&#8217;s commitment to delivering quality health services in line with the UHC&nbsp;strategies. At an opening ceremony of a&nbsp;new theatre at&nbsp;&nbsp;Dedza District hospital&nbsp;Chiponda said<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The pandemic has not spared any group in the society as even pregnant women have fallen victim to the same which becomes a toll order for the doctor in case there is need to conduct a scissor operation on them but there are also other COVID-19&nbsp;patients waiting for attention. Hence the opening of the new theatre has come&nbsp;at such an opportune time. Having two operating theatres will significantly improve the quality of care at the hospital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full details about this news can be found on&nbsp;the link below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202107280871.html\">https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202107280871.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Health and Population Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has reiterated the government&#8217;s commitment to delivering quality health services in line with the UHC&nbsp;strategies. At an opening ceremony of a&nbsp;new theatre at&nbsp;&nbsp;Dedza District hospital&nbsp;Chiponda said The pandemic has not spared any group in the society as even pregnant women have fallen victim to the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":987529600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[128],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}