Africa-Press – Angola. Patients with pituitary tumors will benefit from medical treatment in the country’s hospitals, announced Saturday in Luanda, the Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta.
According to a note from MINSA, there will no longer be a need for patients to travel outside the country, as national health units have competent professionals and technical capacity for diagnosis and postoperative treatment.
The pituitary gland is a small structure located in the bony cavity at the base of the brain.
With regard to the massive surgeries campaign, Sílvia Lutucuta pointed to Cabinda province as one of the locations covered for the second phase of the campaign, due to the technical capacity of the General Hospital.
The campaign in Cabinda will include professionals from the neurosurgery teams at the Complexo Hospitalar Dom Alexandre do Nascimento Hospital, to carry out highly complex surgeries.
MINSA warns that the entire surgery process is free, nothing is paid.
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