The German Federal State of Rhineland Palatinate is considering training and skills exchange programmes in order to boost the health sector in Rwanda, the German Health Minister, Malu Dreyer has said.

Dreyer made the remarks, Friday, during her tour of health and education projects run by the Jumelage cooperation between the German province and Muhanga District.

Dreyer was accompanied by husband Lord Mayor Klaus Jensen and Mayor Peter Kloeckner- both mayors in the same province. The team visited Kabgayi hospital and Muhanga prison among other health and education projects.

While at Kabgayi hospital, Dreyer was impressed by the Rwandan policy of emphasis on both prevention and care in the health system.

"I am impressed with how medical care operates in this country and I am taking home the message of Rwanda’s health prevention policy. Prevention is one of the things we lack in Germany,” Dreyer said.

She said that the German state will send health experts to Rwanda to train, share skills and expertise with medics locally and some intervention will also be done in equipping Kabgayi hospital in the future.

The Kabgayi Hospital Director, Osée Sebatunzi, asked for support in equipping and refurbishing structures of the 74 year old the hospital.

"The hospital needs modern structures and equipment so as to provide better services in future,” Sebatunzi said.

Kabgayi hospital handles between 200 to 400 patients per day, and is one of the first and oldest church run referral hospitals in the country, serving the southern and western provinces.

District officials hailed the German cooperation for its continued exchange of resources and capacity in the health and education sector, which has boosted the welfare on Muhanga residents in the last 30 years. 

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