{"id":40690,"date":"2019-03-19T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=40690"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:28:48","slug":"kcca-to-start-tb-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kcca-to-start-tb-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"KCCA to start TB outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Steven Mbidde.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kampala city authorities are to start a Tuberculosis sensitization and screening campaign to rid the city of TB.<\/p>\n<p>The moves follows a report released by the United States Agency for International Development \u2013 USAID which showed that Tuberculosis which is an air borne disease is high in\u00a0 common I the city\u2019s taxi parks, prisons, slum areas, schools, bars and fishing grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Kampala capital city Authority\u2019s director of Public Health Dr. Daniel Okello says they are going to hold public education campaigns in some of the hot spots as revealed by the report.<\/p>\n<p>Government spends twelve million shillings on treatment of one Tuberculosis patient yet it takes six months for one to fully recover after receiving routine drugs as prescribed by health professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steven Mbidde. Kampala city authorities are to start a Tuberculosis sensitization and screening campaign to rid the city of TB. The moves follows a report released by the United States Agency for International Development \u2013 USAID which showed that Tuberculosis which is an air borne disease is high in\u00a0 common I the city\u2019s taxi parks, prisons, slum areas, schools, bars and fishing grounds. Now the Kampala capital city Authority\u2019s director of Public Health Dr. Daniel Okello says they are going to hold public education campaigns in some of the hot spots as revealed by the report. Government spends twelve million shillings on treatment of one Tuberculosis patient yet it takes six months for one to fully recover after receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":40630,"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-40690","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\/40690"}],"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=40690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}