kwivuza
kwee-VOO-zah
How to say it
Kinyarwandakwivuzakwee-VOO-zah
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Meaning
To go to a doctor, a health center or a healer to be treated for an illness or an injury. It is the patient's side of treatment, while kuvura is what the doctor does.
Good to know
Reflexive form built on kuvura, to treat: kwivuza indwara, to be treated for a disease. Ubwisungane mu kwivuza is Rwanda's community health insurance, also called mituweli.
Examples
- Yagiye kwivuza mu bitaro bya Butaro.He went to be treated at Butaro hospital.
- Mituweli ifasha abaturage kwivuza badahenzwe.Community health insurance helps people get treatment cheaply.
- Nivuje malariya mu cyumweru gishize.I was treated for malaria last week.
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