{"id":40293,"date":"2019-02-28T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=40293"},"modified":"2019-02-28T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T07:27:54","slug":"mp-petitions-parliament-over-sale-of-hepatitis-b-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/mp-petitions-parliament-over-sale-of-hepatitis-b-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"MP petitions parliament over sale of Hepatitis B vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ritah Kemigisa.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mubende Municipality Member of Parliament <strong>Tonny Ssemuli\u00a0<\/strong>has petitioned parliament over the continued sale of Hepatitis B vaccines to residents in the district yet they are meant to be free.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Ministry of Health rolled out Hepatitis B vaccination to high burdened districts identified including Mubende as it moves to combat the disease affecting over 1 million people in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Government said the vaccine is free of charge but according to Ssemuli who raised on a matter of national importance says in Mubende; residents have to part with some money to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the State Minister of Health for General Duties Sarah Opendi has promised to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa. Mubende Municipality Member of Parliament Tonny Ssemuli\u00a0has petitioned parliament over the continued sale of Hepatitis B vaccines to residents in the district yet they are meant to be free. Last year, the Ministry of Health rolled out Hepatitis B vaccination to high burdened districts identified including Mubende as it moves to combat the disease affecting over 1 million people in the country. Government said the vaccine is free of charge but according to Ssemuli who raised on a matter of national importance says in Mubende; residents have to part with some money to be vaccinated. In response, the State Minister of Health for General Duties Sarah Opendi has promised to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":40295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}