Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, announced this Thursday in Uíge province that the country will be able to count, by 2027, with over 38,000 specialists in care, nursing, medical-surgical, public health and other areas.
The minister, who is taking part in the two-day meeting of the Local Governance Council, considered the process of training staff in the health sector to be ambitious.
In the last five years, the sector registered 33 thousand and 93 professionals, representing a growth of 35 percent in the total workforce. The National Health System (SNS) currently has 96,831 professionals.
The SNS also registered, in the same period, an increase of 163 modern health units, equipped and equipped with modern technology. The system currently has over 13,426 beds.
Among the main hospital units built in the last five years, there is the Specialized Center for the Treatment of Endemics and Pandemics, Hospital Complex for Cardiopulmonary Diseases Cardeal Dom Alexandre do Nascimento, Instituto Hematológico Pediátrico Dr. Victoria do Espírito Santo, Hospital Materno Infantil Azancot Menezes, Hospital Geral do Bié.
Responding to the concerns presented by the governor of Uíge, José Carvalho da Rocha, about the need for staff and infrastructure, the minister said that this region has 105 doctors and 240 nurses working in specialties, medium technicians and soon graduates will also do specialty.
On the need to build infrastructure, he said that whenever a source of funding appears, priority projects will be inserted.
The minister highlighted the construction of a tertiary-level general hospital, underway in Uíge province, which will be completed in two years.
Despite this, he said it was necessary for the province of Uíge to have a pediatric reference hospital and a maternity hospital with all the conditions.
He announced, on the other hand, that the province of Uíge will be able to count on an “epidemiological antenna”, for that reason, some staff are doing a master’s degree in field epidemiology.
The commitment to this preventive health model was justified by the fact that the region borders the Democratic Republic of Congo, a vulnerable zone in the emergence of an epidemic.
Energy and water in Uíge
Regarding the tender for the electrification of Uíge province, the Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, said that it was an extension of 950 kilometers of line and that it was estimated at US$200 million.
Within the framework of the project, he said that the issue of financing is underway, so that in the coming months work on the first phase can begin, with the forecast of electrifying eight municipalities.
He spoke of the start-up, in the next few days, in the municipality of Uíge, of the execution of work on 15,000 home connections, to benefit 200,000 people, reinforce the water collection and treatment station and a sanitation project for 4,000 homes.
João Baptista Borges assured that the project will be extended to other municipal seats, with emphasis on Damba and Maquela do Zombo, which is already at an advanced stage, and another 13 municipal seats with systems to be rehabilitated or resized.
For this, the minister said that a package of around 180 million American dollars would be necessary for its materialization.
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