Africa-Press – Angola. The works on the future Huambo Pediatric Hospital, with a capacity for 200 beds, are physically completed in the order of 13 percent, in less than a year.
The fact was made known by the construction supervisor, during a visit by deputies from the Electoral Circle of the province of Huambo, who went to the site to assess the progress of the project, scheduled in March 2022 and starting in February 2023.
With four floors and one underground, the project under construction in an area of 27 thousand square meters, with a budget valued at 123 million, 703 thousand and 13 euros, will have, after completion, at the end of 2025, infirmaries, three delivery rooms, emergency services, physiotherapy, imaging, endoscopy and administrative departments.
In addition to pediatric and maternity consultations and hospitalizations, the health unit will also provide diagnostic services in the areas of
Technical explanations given to parliamentarians show that the works are progressing satisfactorily, marked by foundation work on the massifs, already 50 percent completed, taking into account the type of soil, with a rocky layer and a high water level.
This is specialized work, with completion expected within six months and, subsequently, the survey of the structure will begin.
At the end of the visit, the coordinator of the Office of Deputies of the Huambo Electoral District, Armando Capunda, was satisfied with the level of execution of the works, the execution of which demonstrates the concern of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, in the construction of infrastructure. hospital structures with international dimensions.
He asked the 93 technicians involved in the project to print all the necessary capacity for the efficiency of the work.
The Health System in the province of Huambo has 273 health units, including secondary level hospitals (General, Sanatorium and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), municipal hospitals, mother and child centers, centers and health posts, provided by more than seven thousand medical professionals, nurses and diagnostic and therapeutic technicians.
Municipal Stadium works
Previously, parliamentarians also visited the construction of the Huambo Municipal Stadium, currently 75 percent physically completed.
The infrastructure, initially conceived as Mambroa Stadium due to the old football field that was located on the site, will have two parallel stands, 11 thousand for each, with completion scheduled for the end of 2025.
The future stadium will have a category IV field, in accordance with the recommendations of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), for the practice of professional football at various levels.
The infrastructure, budgeted at 40 million US dollars, from the State of Israel’s financing line, will have, among other compartments, four changing rooms for athletes, medical emergency room, anti-doping control, for the media, comprising a press room, work room, TV and Radio studios, in addition to technical areas, as well as a Waste Water Treatment Plant.
It will also have conditions for practicing athletics corresponding to category III of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), in the 100 meter, 110 meter hurdles, 200 meter, 4000 meter and 4100 meter relay events, pole vault, jumping high jump, long and triple high jump, javelin, shot put and hammer throwing.
The Huambo Electoral Circle has three deputies from the MPLA and two from UNITA, elected in the general elections on August 24, 2022.
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