By Nasra Bishumba Suicide data released by the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB)’s Spokesperson Thierry Murangira this past weekend provoked the need for open conversations about mental health issues. Murangira, who was appearing on a local radio show, said that a total of 576 people in Rwanda have committed suicide in the last two years. Broken […]
By Alice Kagina A team of thoracic surgeons from different countries headed by Dr. Diego Gonzalez Rivas had a two-day training visit at King Faisal Hospital (KFH) to introduce a uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) technique in Rwanda. The medical camp ended on August 6. Gonzalez is a Spanish pioneer surgeon in the world performing […]
By Emmanuel Ntirenganya The global demand for macadamia outweighs the available supply, a situation that presents a business opportunity that Rwandans can tap into, according to actors in the horticulture sector. As Rwanda looks to diversifying its agricultural exports to reduce the high reliance on traditional exports like coffee, tea and pyrethrum, experts have argued […]
By Nasra Bishumba The number of people who have contracted cancer since 2015 has more than doubled, rising from 2,115 cases to 5,040 in 2019, the Director of Cancer Diseases Unit at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), Marc Hagenimana, has said. Speaking to The New Times in a telephone interview, Hagenimana said that the numbers […]
