{"id":27135,"date":"2021-04-16T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=27135"},"modified":"2021-04-16T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:52:17","slug":"know-your-elders-deds-told-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2","title":{"rendered":"Know your elders, DEDs told"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>DEPUTY Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Dr Festo Ndugange has directed local leaders from village level to ensure they have a database of all elders living in their areas.<\/p>\n

The deputy minister issued the directive to District Executive Directors (DEDs) to supervise and ensure that district health officers visit all villages to collect accurate data of all elders.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaders at village levels should ensure there is a list of all elders in their areas. The district executive directors (DEDs) should supervise this and ensure health officers pass in all villages to collect accurate data of all elders,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Dr Ndugange issued the directive in Parliament where he noted that the government has identified and given special Identification cards (IDs) to at least 1,087,008 poor elders in the country to enable them access various essential services, including quality health services.<\/p>\n

It has also issued health insurance cards under the Community Health Fund (CHF) to 856,052 elders who are also enjoying access to health services in various health centres and hospitals in the country.<\/p>\n

Deputy Minister Ndugange made the observation when responding to a question by Ghati Chomete who sought to know the government\u2019s move in ensuring all elders in the country access quality and timely health services.<\/p>\n

Dr Ndugange said that by December 2020, the government had identified and registered a total of 2,344,747 elders, which is 87 per cent of the estimated elders in the country.<\/p>\n

Among them, 1,092,310 are men and 1,252,437 are women. He noted that the aim of the national health policy is to provide free health services to elders from dispensary to national hospital level.<\/p>\n

He said the government was looking for a better system to ensure that senior citizens enjoy health services anywhere in the country.<\/p>\n

In his basic question, Special-Seats MP, Ghati Chomete (CCM) wanted to know the government\u2019s plans in strengthening implementation of the national policy of providing free health services to elders in Mara Region.<\/p>\n

Responding, the deputy minister said the government has identified and registered at least 70,170 elders in Mara Region. He said 32,900 are men and 37,270 are women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Tanzania. DEPUTY Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Dr Festo Ndugange has directed local leaders from village level to ensure they have a database of all elders living in their areas. The deputy minister issued the directive to District Executive Directors (DEDs) to supervise and ensure that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":27134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-27135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"\nKnow your elders, DEDs told - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DEPUTY Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Dr Festo Ndugange h ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Know your elders, DEDs told\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DEPUTY Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Dr Festo Ndugange h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-16T16:16:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"987\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"535\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Know your elders, DEDs told\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-16T16:16:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2\"},\"wordCount\":359,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2\",\"name\":\"Know your elders, DEDs told - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-16T16:16:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"DEPUTY Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Dr Festo Ndugange h ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg\",\"width\":987,\"height\":535,\"caption\":\"Know your elders, DEDs told\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Know your elders, DEDs told\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Know your elders, DEDs told - Tanzania","description":"DEPUTY Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Dr Festo Ndugange h ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Know your elders, DEDs told","og_description":"DEPUTY Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Dr Festo Ndugange h ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-04-16T16:16:06+00:00","og_image":[{"width":987,"height":535,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Know your elders, DEDs told","datePublished":"2021-04-16T16:16:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2"},"wordCount":359,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Tanzania","tanzania"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","policy","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2","name":"Know your elders, DEDs told - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg","datePublished":"2021-04-16T16:16:06+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"DEPUTY Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Dr Festo Ndugange h ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/04\/img-6079a487569d3.jpg","width":987,"height":535,"caption":"Know your elders, DEDs told"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/know-your-elders-deds-told-2#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Know your elders, DEDs told"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}