Africa-Press – Angola. The company “Marg Boss” presented at the Feira dos Municípios e Cidades de Angola (FMCA), to provincial governments and municipal administrations, the Mobile Health and Education Services (SSEM) project, aimed at medical and medication assistance in remote communities from the country.
The initiative is embodied in motor vehicles (the combination of a motorcycle and a sidecar), in three models, namely the mobile clinic, the ambulance and community education.
The clinical motorbike was designed to work with communities and is equipped with various instruments to allow health professionals to carry out their duties in conditions similar to those existing in health units.
This unit can perform various services such as sputum sample collection, white blood cell monitoring, immunization, medication distribution and prenatal consultations.
The ambulance with a stretcher attached to the side was designed to transport patients from the community to health centers and hospitals, providing communities with means of access to health care in zones.
The services and education unit appears as a solution so that citizens can effectively make a living in the municipalities, providing the essential services of the State administration such as civil registration, licensing, among others, in order to promote the decentralization of services.
Monday, in Lubango, when talking about the project, the managing partner of Marg Boss, Jorge Guedes, said that despite the Executive investing “a lot” in health, from infrastructure to staff, there are still places services do not arrive, hence the initiative that revolutionizes the national health system.
He referred that a similar project has already been implemented by countries such as Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa, the latter being the territory where the means come from, the result of an exclusive contract between the Angolan company and the South African factory.
He explained that with the project, the hospital goes out to meet the community, especially in rural areas and can stay one or two weeks in a locality, a proposal for the Angolan Government to overcome the difficulties inherent to health in these areas.
Jorge Guedes continued that the components of a conventional hospital are all coupled in the movable means, but in miniature, adapted to the precarious conditions of access roads, from fuel deposits to supply the generator and refrigerated cabinets for the conservation of vaccines.
“The current price of a conventional automobile ambulance is capable of buying four or five vehicles of this type. In this project, the administration only acquires the means to manage, through the municipal health department with its human resources and medicines”, he recalled.
He added that he had received positive feedback from provincial and municipal managers during the FMCA, which is why they hope to welcome him so that communities in the most remote locations in the country feel more included in health services.
Marg Boss, headquartered in Luanda, has been in existence for 13 years, focuses on the import and export of means of transport, as well as civil construction, with South Africa as its main supplier. It directly employs seven employees.
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