Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan Health Minister Sílvia Lutucuta stated on Tuesday in Luanda that Pedalé Hospital will pay special attention to stroke treatment and will offer specific services in the areas of imaging, oncology, and transplantation.
Speaking to the press at the end of President João Lourenço visit to the hospital’s construction site, she said the facility will implement the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system in the country’s public sector, as well as innovations in imaging and radiation oncology.
For over an hour, the Head of State toured the hospital’s various departments and received explanations from the project coordinator about the progress of the work, which is currently 91 percent complete. The Health Minister stated that the facility will be inaugurated soon, without specifying a specific date.
Silvia Lutucuta said that the Head of State was very pleased with what he saw and is confident in the inauguration of the hospital.
She praised the attention that the President of the Republic has given to the social sector, with health being no exception, for the investments made at all levels, from the primary, through the PIM, to the secondary, with ordinary resources from the Treasury and financing, at the tertiary level, with financing and ordinary resources from the Treasury.
“We will also have a transplant area, so we have a laboratory with this compatibility and, in principle, the part of oncology treated here will be fundamentally breast cancer, which is one of the major concerns within us, as well as a reinforced physiotherapy area”, she stressed.
With a capacity for 144 beds, the Pedalé Hospital, located in the Gamek neighborhood, Samba municipality, in Luanda, is being built and prepared to receive modern medical equipment and provide services in different medical specialties to respond to highly complex areas of medicine in the country.
It is a tertiary level health unit with an intensive care unit, intermediate care, operating rooms, laboratories and hemodialysis services, equipped with 33 chairs.
The works began in 2012, but were paralyzed for a long time. However, in 2024, it registered the signing of a contract, with an execution period of 18 months, in the amount of USD 67. 139,373.69, as well as an advance amount of 15 percent.
The infrastructure is being built by Wedo Development, under the supervision of DAR Angola, and is being built on a 42,157 square meter area. It features a three-story main building, which will house the emergency room, outpatient consultations, imaging, radiotherapy, and nuclear medicine departments.
It includes technical areas, a laundry room, a morgue, a kitchen, a hospital pharmacy, and a waste disposal facility. The technical area has employed over 200 workers to date, mostly young Angolans, and is equipped with a group of five generators, refrigeration systems, and three 1,250 kV transformers for grid power.
The compound also has a parking lot with 136 spaces and a helipad for air medical transport.
The health unit also has a six-story apartment building with 20 two-bedroom apartments and a four-story training center for training. This visit by the Head of State comes approximately four (4) months after the last visit to the construction site.
President João Lourenço, accompanied by his aides, also visited the construction site of the Kilamba Burns Hospital, located in the municipality of Belas, Luanda.
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