{"id":175611,"date":"2024-07-01T01:30:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-are-namibians-open-to-chronic-disease-screening\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T01:30:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T23:30:32","slug":"namibia-are-namibians-open-to-chronic-disease-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-are-namibians-open-to-chronic-disease-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Are Namibians Open to Chronic Disease Screening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>When was your last check-up?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Regular screenings for chronic diseases can be lifesaving, however, not everyone makes it a priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">With the rise of health conditions like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, staying informed about your health status remains important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Namibia Medical Care (NMC) Open Wellness Day at the Roman Catholic Hospital welcomed the public of all ages, offering free health screenings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The event saw a high turnout, with over 200 people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.adsense-outer-ad-container.adsense-responsive-outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">This is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406270583.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was your last check-up? Regular screenings for chronic diseases can be lifesaving, however, not everyone makes it a priority. With the rise of health conditions like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, staying informed about your health status remains important. The Namibia Medical Care (NMC) Open Wellness Day at the Roman Catholic Hospital welcomed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7222,5784,4706,724,7974,257,5983,6735,254],"class_list":["post-175611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chronic","tag-disease","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-open","tag-screening","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}