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SAR LA PRINCESSE LALLA ASMAA ET LA PREMIERE DAME DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU RWANDA LANCENT, A KIGALI, LA 5E PHASE DU PROGRAMME "UNIS, ON S’ENTEND MIEUX"

Ce mardi 27 Octobre 2026, Son Altesse Royale la Princesse Lalla Asmaa, Présidente de la Fondation Lalla Asmaa, et Son Excellence Mme Jeannette Kagame, Première Dame de la République du Rwanda, ont procédé, lundi à l’hôpital militaire de référence et d’enseignement du Rwanda à Kigali, au lancement de la 5e phase du Programme "Unis, on s’entend mieux" de la Fondation Lalla Asmaa, et à l’inauguration du premier Centre de diagnostic et de réhabilitation auditive du pays.Maroc.ma.

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By RWANDAPODIUM

On Wednesday 28 October 2026

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SAR Lalla Asmaa, & la Première Dame du Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame ont inauguré le centre “ Unis, On Entend mieux”.

Prolongement à l’international de la campagne nationale unique "Nasmaa", le programme "Unis, on s’entend mieux" s’inscrit dans le cadre de la Vision africaine de Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI, fondée sur la promotion d’une coopération Sud-Sud solidaire et agissante, le partage d’expériences et le co-développement entre pays frères et amis.

Le Rwanda devient ainsi le 23e pays du programme "Unis, on s’entend mieux" présent en Afrique, dans la région MENA et en Amérique latine, qui a permis la prise en charge de près de 500 patients.

A leur arrivée à l’hôpital militaire de référence et d’enseignement du Rwanda, Son Altesse Royale la Princesse Lalla Asmaa et Mme Jeannette Kagame ont été accueillies par le Général de Brigade, Dr Eugene Ngoga, Commandant de l’Hôpital, ainsi que par le ministre rwandais de la Santé, Dr Sabin Nsanzimana.

Son Altesse Royale la Princesse Lalla Asmaa et la Première Dame du Rwanda ont, à cette occasion, rendu visite à 04 enfants rwandais opérés dans le cadre de cette mission médico-humanitaire, une action qui témoigne de l’attention particulière que Son Altesse Royale ne cesse d’accorder, conformément aux Hautes Orientations Royales, à l’accompagnement des enfants bénéficiaires du Programme et de leurs familles, au Maroc comme dans les 23 pays partenaires de la Fondation, et de la profonde conviction de Son Altesse Royale que la prise en charge doit s’inscrire dans la durée, au-delà de l’intervention médicale.

Subsequently, Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Asmaa and the First Lady of the Republic of Rwanda inaugurated the Hearing Diagnosis and Rehabilitation Center, a gift from Her Royal Highness and the Lalla Asmaa Foundation, which provided the equipment.

The Hearing Diagnosis and Rehabilitation Center, the first facility of its kind in the country

Depending on the patient’s care journey, this new center brings together all stages of care, from the initial examination to rehabilitation.

Bringing together ENT doctors, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and psychologists, the Center has been equipped with all the necessary medical equipment, including a soundproof booth, audiometers, devices for testing infants’ hearing, as well as workstations for adjusting cochlear implants and hearing aids.

It will help make diagnoses from as early as the first few months of life, a critical period for language acquisition, and will provide follow-up care for children with implants.

At the same time, Rwandan teams received training on how to use all the equipment to ensure the Center’s independent operation.

50 cochlear implants and 56 hearing aids

During this fifth phase of the "Together, We Hear Each Other Better" program, 50 Rwandan patients are receiving cochlear implants and 56 others are being fitted with hearing aids. The procedures are performed jointly by the surgical teams of excellence mobilized by the Lalla Asmaa Foundation and their Rwandan counterparts.

This collaboration brings together practitioners from both countries, as well as residents in training, throughout all stages of patient care, from preoperative preparation through the surgical procedure itself to intraoperative measures to verify the proper functioning of the implant. This approach helps strengthen the skills of Rwandan hospital teams and ensures that the mission’s benefits are sustained over the long term, for the benefit of patients.

Made for people with severe to profound hearing loss for whom conventional hearing aids are insufficient, the cochlear implant consists of an internal component, placed under the skin behind the ear, whose electrodes directly stimulate the auditory nerve, and an external processor that captures and encodes sounds. It is activated a few weeks after surgery; this is followed by several adjustments and long-term speech therapy, which enables the patient to gradually begin perceiving and understanding speech.

At the genocide Memorial, located in Gisozi on the suburbs of Kigali, Her Royal Highness laid a wreath of flowers in tribute to victims of the genocide perpetuated against the Tutsi, then observed a minute of silence in presence of Dr. Jean Damascène Bizimana, Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement, in charge of genocide memorial, according to a press release from the Lalla Asmaa Foundation.