{"id":962,"date":"2022-09-19T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/?p=962"},"modified":"2022-09-19T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:21:57","slug":"world-health-organization-and-government-of-japan-support-maternal-health-at-kuisebmund-health-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/09\/19\/world-health-organization-and-government-of-japan-support-maternal-health-at-kuisebmund-health-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization and Government of Japan support maternal health at Kuisebmund Health Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a Wednesday morning at the Kuisebmund Health Centre and Shirleyn Awases is among the 20 women seeking antenatal care services at the facility. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 31-year recently had a miscarriage and not long before that she delivered a stillborn baby. This time around, the mother of a 10 -year is expecting yet another baby.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, while she is nervous about what could go wrong, Awases is also hopeful that with the recently donated ultrasound machine to the Kuisebmund Health Centre, the doctor would be able to better detect any abnormalities during her pregnancy with this technology. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organisation (WHO) with financial support amounting to US$ 270 000 (approximately N$ 4,579,200) from the government of Japan donated a sonar to the Kuisebmund Health Centre in March this year (2022).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The support is aimed at strengthening maternal and child health services in Namibia. The Kuisebmund Health Centre is one of 16 district health facilities that benefited from the WHO and government of Japan support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve realized that we needed additional support in terms of ultrasound machines which helps with early detection of the growth and development of the baby in the mother\u2019s womb and if there are any problems they can be picked up early,\u201d said the WHO Representative, Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a Wednesday morning at the Kuisebmund Health Centre and Shirleyn Awases is among the 20 women seeking antenatal care services at the facility. &nbsp; The 31-year recently had a miscarriage and not long before that she delivered a stillborn baby. This time around, the mother of a 10 -year is expecting yet another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}