The Minister of Finance and economic planning John Rwangombwa has announced that teachers’ salaries will be increased by 10% in the next financial year.
Rwangombwa made the announcement during a joint press conference after the cabinet meeting.
“This will be based on qualification and experience in the teachers’ profession,” Rwangombwa said.
The minister said that the next financial year have been increased by Rwf 59 million so as to cater for such long awaited needs and to cover 2000 teachers expected to join the profession 2012.
It is also intended to widen the ‘One Laptop per child’ program in schools, gir’inka and also acquiring more shares in the cement factory CIMERWA, which was other factor to increase the government budget.
In the same joint press conference, the minister of health Dr Agnes Binagwaho emphasized that organ transplant from dead people would help a lot in Rwandan saving of lives.
These all among the recent cabinet meeting that brought a mixed filling about organ transplant.
Organ transplantation is the removing of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient’s own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient’s damaged or absent organ.
A section of the ministerial decree determines the donation card and the will format for a person to donate his or her body, body parts or organs for research, medical, scientific and educational purposes.
Another section determines procedures for importation and exportation of organs, tissues and products from a body of a dead person for therapeutic or scientific research utilization purposes.
The cabinet also approved a ministerial decree establishing a list of diseases whose medical tests must be undertaken by a person willing to donate or to receive an organ or tissues of human body.
Dr Alex Butera the Ag. CEO of one of the referral hospital King Faisal told the New Times that the ministerial decree will streamline the exercise.
“The decree came in the right time; you have heard of cases of organ trafficking, these decrees clearly state how organs are to be imported and exported,” said Dr. Butera.
He said since the hospital started conducting organ transplants, donor responses have been impressive.
“People in this country are good at donating organs; we have had cases of parents willingly donating organs to children and relatives”.
According to medics, organs that can be transplanted are the heart, kidneys, eyes, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine, and thymus. Tissues include bones, cornea, skin, heart valves, and veins.
Worldwide, the kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organs, followed closely by the liver and the heart.
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