{"id":196047,"date":"2025-04-14T23:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-geothermal-energy-in-africa-and-its-role-in-medical-tourism-naturopathic-practice\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T23:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:22:39","slug":"africa-geothermal-energy-in-africa-and-its-role-in-medical-tourism-naturopathic-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-geothermal-energy-in-africa-and-its-role-in-medical-tourism-naturopathic-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Geothermal Energy in Africa and Its Role in Medical Tourism &#038; Naturopathic Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Geothermal energy is an abundant yet underutilised resource in Africa, primarily concentrated in the East African Rift System (EARS). Countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Tanzania, and Uganda have significant geothermal potential. Besides energy generation, geothermal resources&#8211;including hot springs, mineral-rich waters, and volcanic muds&#8211;offer tremendous opportunities for medical tourism and naturopathic health practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">With the global medical tourism market valued at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504140306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Geothermal energy is an abundant yet underutilised resource in Africa, primarily concentrated in the East African Rift System (EARS). Countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Tanzania, and Uganda have significant geothermal potential. Besides energy generation, geothermal resources&#8211;including hot springs, mineral-rich waters, and volcanic muds&#8211;offer tremendous opportunities for medical tourism and naturopathic health practices. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7424,28972,4509,7417,51124,257,18016,8225,254,1634],"class_list":["post-196047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-energy","tag-geothermal","tag-ghana-news","tag-medical","tag-naturopathic","tag-news","tag-practice","tag-role","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196047","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}