RAMA building which houses RSSB. The New Times / J. Mbanda.
The Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) will soon set up a cardiology centre, it announced yesterday.
Moses
Kazoora, the Director of Public Relations at RSSB, told The New Times
that the board’s idea to set up the centre and other medical services
was approved by the government.
“We [RSSB] signed a partnership
with an Indian hospital, Medanta, which will help establish a cardiology
centre and other medical services,” said Kazoora in a telephone
interview.
Cardiology is a medical specialty that deals with
heart disorders. The field includes diagnosis and treatment of
congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure,
valvular heart disease and electrophysiology.
A congenital heart
defect (CHD) is a flaw in the structure of the heart and great vessels
which is present at birth, and are the most common type of major birth
defects, while valvular heart disease is any ailment involving one or
more of the valves of the heart.
The cardiology centre will he hosted at the Twin Towers, adjacent to the current head offices of RSSB.
The
Rwf 6.9 billion facility to be named ‘Doctors’ Plaza’ is still under
construction and is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year.
The
facility was previously part of four buildings that were supposed to be
purchased by the government in a bid to solve the problem of lack of
office space for its institutions.
“The Doctors’ Plaza will host
medical services to treat patients locally instead of taking them
abroad; and this is in the government’s interest, and it [government]
gave us a go-ahead,” said Kazoora.
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