{"id":8361,"date":"2020-07-30T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T06:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2024-10-09T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T10:23:33","slug":"first-day-of-bridge-city-health-screens-and-tests-a-great-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/first-day-of-bridge-city-health-screens-and-tests-a-great-success\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of Bridge City health screens and tests a great success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JSI health testing and screening which began in Bridge City yesterday was a great success with health care workers screening a record amount of people and running out of HIV test kits early because of unexpected demand. Bridge City precinct manager Nwabisa Mkhize says: \u201cThis demonstrates that the people of Bridge City are being proactive about their health.\u201d The USAID-funded organisation will be doing COVID-19 screening, HIV-testing and providing other health services every Wednesday for the next three months. Those needing further assistance will be referred to JSI\u2019s northern affiliated medical facilities in Osindisweni \/ Tongaat, Newtown A, Phoenix and KwaMashu. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/weekly-covid-19-screening-and-other-testing-to-take-place-in-bridge-city-from-29th-july\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Please see previous article for more  information<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/weekly-covid-19-screening-and-other-testing-to-take-place-in-bridge-city-from-29th-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JSI health testing and screening which began in Bridge City yesterday was a great success with health care workers screening a record amount of people and running out of HIV test kits early because of unexpected demand. Bridge City precinct manager Nwabisa Mkhize says: \u201cThis demonstrates that the people of Bridge City are being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-and-sustainability","category-municipal-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8364,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions\/8364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgecity.org.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}