Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, stated this Saturday that the inauguration of the Huambo Hemodialysis and Nephrology Services Center makes the population of the province of Huambo proud and happy, due to its conditions.
The minister, who was speaking moments after the opening ceremony of the project, by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, said that the implementation of these services constitutes a source of pride, as it represents a concrete example of the Angolan Executive’s strong commitment to improving the condition of population health.
Sílvia Lutucuta explained that the implementation of the Hemodialysis Center and Nephrology Services will add value to human dignity, as it represents an improvement in the quality of life of patients with chronic and acute renal failure.
The minister made it known that kidney failure is a public health problem, at a time when its impact on Angolan society is beginning to be significant and is of particular importance.
He said that, therefore, it requires efforts in its approach that should be based on improving the provision of multidisciplinary health care to patients, cooperation between sectors, stratifying risks in the population and improving communication between patients and healthcare providers. sanitary service.
This fact, according to the government official, will ensure that efficient and high-quality care is offered to the target groups.
He highlighted that the growing number of patients in the country with kidney failure, undergoing daily dialysis treatment, and the limited capacity to provide these services to everyone in any unit constitutes one of the points to improve in the National Health Service in terms of responsiveness, effectiveness, efficiency and equity.
He added that the National Health System has 18 public hemodialysis institutions, including services and centers, distributed across eight provinces, duly equipped with technical means and qualified human resources to respond to demand.
He added that these patients undergo a total of 33 thousand 948 hemodialysis sessions/month.
He reaffirmed the Ministerial Department’s commitment to increasing, within this five-year period, hemodialysis to all provincial capitals, with centers in new hospitals and future centers attached to existing health units, with the implementation, in the first half of this year, of gender services in provinces of Cunene, Cuanza-Sul and Cuanza-Norte.
However, he continued, the priority actions will continue to be the control of chronic non-communicable, infectious diseases that cause this terrible disease, with a holistic and disciplinary approach, based on primary health care.
He explained that the model of the Huambo Hemodialysis Center was designed to satisfy the health of the patient and their family, through a welcoming, safe environment and based on strong coordination and integration of continuous care, with a periodic and multidisciplinary medical assessment of patients. patients.
He highlighted that the health unit has 56 monitors, 19 inpatient beds with all technical and human conditions, to provide services to acute and chronic patients undergoing conventional dialysis, peritoneal dialysis and nephrology hospitalization.
“Here we have the second nephrology service in the true sense of the word in the country, of which we should be proud, for providing humanized services and good working conditions for professionals”, he said, highlighting that the training of technicians constitutes the pillar for quality of the service provided.
He assured that the center guarantees continuity of training, also taking care of specific areas, as the service, in addition to the gains for the population’s health, brings benefits to the province, in terms of employability, with a total of 100 professionals, including specialties in nephrology , doctors, nurses, senior laboratory technicians, pharmacists, warehouse managers, psychologists, nutritionists, among others.
Therefore, the government official called for the conservation and preservation of equipment, while professionals must reinforce the development of educational activities for patients about a healthy lifestyle.
In brief words, the governor of the province of Huambo, Lotti Nolika, said that the opening of the center represents a qualitative and quantitative increase in response capacity, mainly for kidney patients who will have better conditions to carry out this demanding, but necessary hemodialysis process.
The province of Huambo has a Health System made up of 272 public health units and another 80 from the private sector, provided by seven thousand 165 professionals, including 495 doctors.
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