{"id":24661,"date":"2021-06-21T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24661"},"modified":"2021-06-21T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:03:35","slug":"nrm-mps-want-govt-to-prevail-over-medical-facilities-charging-exorbitant-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/21\/nrm-mps-want-govt-to-prevail-over-medical-facilities-charging-exorbitant-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"NRM MPs Want Gov&#8217;t To Prevail Over Medical Facilities Charging Exorbitant Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party MPs want government to address the issue of medical facilities charging exorbitant fares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MPs include; Lilian Aber,Kateshumbwa Dickson, Agnes Atim, Phiona Nyamutoro and Kimosho Dan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They want government to prevail over the exorbitant COVID-19 treatment fees in health facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some health facilities are charging over 2-5 million shillings daily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actions by these facilities have enraged Ugandans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, the head of the State House Anti-corruption Unit, Col Edith Nakalema revealed that the facilities would face a probe for their actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party MPs want government to address the issue of medical facilities charging exorbitant fares. The MPs include; Lilian Aber,Kateshumbwa Dickson, Agnes Atim, Phiona Nyamutoro and Kimosho Dan. They want government to prevail over the exorbitant COVID-19 treatment fees in health facilities. Some health facilities are charging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-24661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24664,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24661\/revisions\/24664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}