{"id":2567,"date":"2017-11-16T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/rhd-action-co-organizes-rhd-stakeholder-meeting-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2021-04-30T19:12:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:12:36","slug":"rhd-action-co-organizes-rhd-stakeholder-meeting-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/rhd-action-co-organizes-rhd-stakeholder-meeting-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"RHD Action Co-organizes RHD Stakeholder Meeting in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"post-3637 media-3637\" class=\"align-none break-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RHD-Stakeholders-Event_November_Uganda-6046-group-photo-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRHD is a big problem here \u2013 it causes a lot of mortality. We have convened this meeting to find a way forward\u201d, said Dr Emmy Okello, an interventional cardiologist at the Uganda Heart Institute, in his opening remarks to the RHD Uganda Stakeholders\u2019 Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place from 2-3 November 2017 at the Protea Hotel in Kampala, Uganda, the meeting was held to both review progress achieved in delivering RHD services throughout Uganda in recent years, and to give attendees an opportunity to discuss how they could engage new partners in the fight against rheumatic heart disease (RHD). The meeting was co-organized by a number of partners, including RHD Action \u2013 of which the World Heart Federation is a founding member \u2013 the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI), Children\u2019s National Health System, and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah Mwangi, representing the World Heart Federation and RHD Action, offered participants a global perspective by underlining the importance of a WHO Resolution on \u2018Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease\u2019. Praising Uganda\u2019s role in bringing RHD to the attention of policy makers, he stated that \u201ca global Resolution would give WHO the mandate to work on rheumatic fever and RHD to support countries who want to establish national programmes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about discussions at the meeting below the pictures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More pictures from the event<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-3657 media-3657\" class=\"align-none center-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RHD-Stakeholders-Event_November_Uganda-6244-Jem-Peter-Lwabi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"post-3655 media-3655\" class=\"align-none center-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RHD-Stakeholders-Event_November_Uganda-5966-John-Omagino.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"post-3656 media-3656\" class=\"align-none center-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RHD-Stakeholders-Event_November_Uganda-6021-Dr-Olaro-Joyce-Moriku.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"post-3654 media-3654\" class=\"align-none center-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RHD-Stakeholders-Event_Day-2_November_Uganda-6326-breakout.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRHD is a big problem here \u2013 it causes a lot of mortality. We have convened this meeting to find a way forward\u201d, said Dr Emmy Okello, an interventional cardiologist at the Uganda Heart Institute, in his opening remarks to the RHD Uganda Stakeholders\u2019 Meeting. Taking place from 2-3 November 2017 at the Protea Hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2568,"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"event":[],"project-campaign":[],"topic":[171],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RHD Action Co-organizes RHD Stakeholder Meeting in Uganda - World Heart Federation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/rhd-action-co-organizes-rhd-stakeholder-meeting-in-uganda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RHD Action Co-organizes RHD Stakeholder Meeting in Uganda - World Heart Federation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cRHD is a big problem here \u2013 it causes a lot of mortality. 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