{"id":13020,"date":"2023-04-22T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=13020"},"modified":"2023-04-21T17:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:51:23","slug":"tb-patients-in-aweil-west-county-in-need-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/22\/tb-patients-in-aweil-west-county-in-need-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"TB patients in Aweil West County in need of food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Hou Akot Hou<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients with Tuberculosis disease admitted at Nyamlel Primary Health Care center in Aweil West county of Northern Bahr El Ghazal state are in urgent need of food to supplement their treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health center Director, Lual Khamis Lual said Friday that dozens of the patients suffering from Tuberculosis have been battling the disease and severely need food to help them get better treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khamis said that World Food Programme had pulled out the feeding program which was aimed at helping patients get bulk of drugs and supplement the treatment with food distribution to their households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe WFP had pulled out last year and we have got dozens of patients here who can\u2019t get food as we give them a lot of drugs that need food to help them function well in the bodies\u201d Lual said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there are at least seven patients with severe cases whom they are struggling to help but the rest go without feeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to appeal to the rest of the residents in the county and beyond that our government through the state\u2019s Ministry of health has availed TB drugs to us but these need feeding as they are essential drugs that can\u2019t be inhaled without food. If possible the well-wishers could help in stepping in\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the Nyamlel PHCC had received a testing machine, leading to a call from the health officials urging people to come for treatment in the nearby vicinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that makes adult cough, sneeze and it affects the lungs which is also a killer disease if not well maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hou Akot Hou Patients with Tuberculosis disease admitted at Nyamlel Primary Health Care center in Aweil West county of Northern Bahr El Ghazal state are in urgent need of food to supplement their treatment. The health center Director, Lual Khamis Lual said Friday that dozens of the patients suffering<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/22\/tb-patients-in-aweil-west-county-in-need-of-food\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13021,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions\/13021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}