Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, announced for December the inauguration of the Caxito General Hospital, in Bengo, which is being built in the town of Bucula, five kilometers from the provincial headquarters.
“We are going to inaugurate the Hospital Geral do Caxito later this year, I believe in December”, stated President João Lourenço at the end of a field trip to the construction works of the Hospital Geral de Viana and the Hospital de Queimados do Kilamba, in Luanda .
With the inauguration of the Caxito General Hospital, the Holder of Executive Power expects a reduction in the flow of patients transferred from Bengo to the country’s capital, locations separated by approximately 65 kilometers.
It is a hospital with a capacity for 200 beds and will include, among others, General Medicine, Pediatrics, Hemodialysis and Surgery services.
For construction, the President of the Republic authorized expenses totaling an estimated global value of 63 million and 180 thousand dollars and the formalization of the opening of the Simplified Contracting procedure. Cacuaco General
Hospital in 2024 Regarding the next hospital units to be implemented in Luanda, the Angolan Head of State said that the Cacuaco General Hospital is scheduled to open in 2024. I can say, he continued, that Luanda will receive it next year the General Hospital of Cacuaco, which will be well equipped, while Viana will have it in 2025.
Also in the Angolan capital, the President of the Republic informed that the construction of several hospital units is planned to meet the needs of a population estimated at ten million inhabitants, the largest population concentration in the country.
He also said that Luanda will have an Oncological Hospital (near the Dom Alexandre do Nascimento Hospital/Palanca area) and another for tramatized patients, the latter to deal with situations resulting from road accidents that are frequent in the country and affect, fundamentally, the young.
Also in the pipeline is the construction of an ophthalmology hospital in the Kilamba region, in the Luanda municipality of Belas.
Investments in health will continue
In statements to the press, President João Lourenço stated that despite the financial difficulties faced by the country, investments in the health sector will continue throughout the country.
Investments “can stop in other (areas) but not this one”, he assured, adding that work in the health sector “will not stop”.
He recalled that the aim is to direct the “large resources”, previously allocated to the Medical Board for the treatment of Angolan patients abroad, towards the construction of new health infrastructures.
“That’s what we are doing”, highlighted João Lourenço, adding that the focus on health is the fulfillment of a promise made in his first term, as President of the Republic.
He clarified that the Angolan State did not abolish the Medical Board. It just “was very limited to very special cases” and which the authorities recognize that there is no internal capacity to resolve.
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