Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, visited, on Friday (8), in Luanda, the future Pedro Maria Tonha “Pedalé” Hospital Complex, whose works are estimated at over US$100 million.
During the nearly one-hour visit, the Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, said that the work is already 51 percent complete and is expected to be delivered in the first half of 2023. “There are difficulties of their own, the national financial situation and international competition had an effect on this project. But we will continue to work, because the most important thing is that we are all committed”, he said.
He announced that the hospital complex will be one of the centers for organ transplantation, also stating that the unit has all the facilities of a general hospital, from Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynecology-Obstetrics, Surgery, Laboratories with various competences, with a view to genetic compatibility, sector such as Robotic Surgery and Hemodialysis.
Two years later, the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, visited the works of the future Hospital Complex Pedro Maria Tonha “Pedalé”, located in Morro Bento (Gamek on the right), Urban District of Maianga, in the neighborhood called “Inorado”.
Differentiated and equipped with modern technology and high precision in the diagnosis and treatment of highly complex diseases, it materializes the Executive’s principle of expanding the construction and network of public hospitals to guarantee better medical and drug assistance to the population, according to a published Decree on July 24, 2020, by the Head of State.
The hospital occupies an area of 32 thousand square meters and with the main building being developed on three floors, in a space of 29,062 square meters, totally dedicated to the service and public access, including the Teaching and Research area, interventions related to the Ophthalmology and Maternal and Child Medicine.
The works began in 2012. They were suspended in 2016 and resumed in 2018, with the creation of the Installation Committee, in October of the same year. The President of the Republic visited the work in December 2017 and February 2022.
With an installed capacity of 144 beds, the hospital has 36 external consultation offices, 16 examination rooms, 36 hemodialysis chairs, two treatment rooms for Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery, Nuclear Medicine with a PET, a gamma-camera and a micro- cyclotron, two delivery rooms, an Intermediate Care Unit with a capacity for 16 beds, five laboratories, a training center in Robotic Surgery and two nuclear accelerators.
Workforce
On the other hand, in relation to the public tender, the minister added that part of the staff will be hired and will undergo a training process, in parallel with the progress of the work. “About 700 people will be admitted and the rest will be admitted gradually, because it is not possible in the current conditions to have a completely filled staff”, she justified.
He added that expatriate professionals of various nationalities will come to train local staff throughout the national territory for the various different hospital units. “In the next competition, we will admit more staff, because a unit like this, in addition to the great differentiation of technicians it needs to work, also needs a very large staff that will be over 1,600 professionals”, he explained.
For residents in the vicinity of the hospital, curiosity and expectations are enormous, as they are the main beneficiaries of the health unit, as Ruth Sousa, a resident of the Inorado neighborhood, said: “These works started a long time ago. , but then we started to hear that it would be a hospital. We became calmer. The important thing is to know that we are not going to run all the time to Hospital da Samba or do Prenda”.
For her part, Maria Burika, also a resident of the area, considered the initiative commendable, as it will facilitate, mainly, women with newborns and pregnant women, to walk kilometers in search of a referral hospital. “Here we only have a private medical center, which has given us first aid. But when this hospital is ready, life will be easier”, she concluded.
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