{"id":987653095,"date":"2021-07-09T03:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/drc-access-to-healthcare-a-challenge-for-the-elderly\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T03:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:18:45","slug":"drc-access-to-healthcare-a-challenge-for-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/drc-access-to-healthcare-a-challenge-for-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC: access to healthcare a challenge for the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Gilbert Tshibangu, a teacher at the Institut Sup\u00e9rieur du Commerce in Kinshasa, this is the first time that an elected President of the DRC has expressed his willingness to offer his people&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20200215-rdc-lancement-plan-couverture-sante-universelle-questions-financement\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>universal health coverage<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the initiative of President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, a small medical residence&nbsp;has been set up in Kinshasa for the elderly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In five weeks, 656 patients have been received at the nursing home, and others are in ambulatory care. Consultations and medical imaging are free of charge. Total cost of current expenditure: nearly $32,&nbsp;,000, a drop in the bucket compared with the budget allocated to the Ministry of Health. &#8220;<em>&nbsp;726&nbsp;741&nbsp;510 is the amount allocated to the Ministry of Health. And&nbsp;represents 0.04% of the&nbsp;amount.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>total<\/em>&nbsp;&#8220;, says Gilbert Tshibangu.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20210705-rdc-l-acc%C3%A8s-au-soin-de-sant%C3%A9-demeure-un-d%C3%A9fi-notamment-pour-les-personnes-%C3%A2g%C3%A9es\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Gilbert Tshibangu, a teacher at the Institut Sup\u00e9rieur du Commerce in Kinshasa, this is the first time that an elected President of the DRC has expressed his willingness to offer his people&nbsp;universal health coverage. On the initiative of President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, a small medical residence&nbsp;has been set up in Kinshasa for the elderly.&nbsp; In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987529752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653095"}],"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\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}