{
  "id": 6110694,
  "title": "Rwanda: Rising NCD Burden Drives Longer, Costlier Care, Experts Warn",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/rwanda-rising-ncd-burden-drives-longer-costlier-care-experts-warn",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-07T06:10:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica Health",
    "slug": "allafrica-health",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202609070072.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "[New Times] Rwanda needs to invest more in preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) before they progress to severe illness and prolonged hospital care, Dr. Theoneste Maniragaba, Director of the Cancer Programme at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), has said.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}