Africa-Press – Angola. Angola will train, for the first time, specialists in cardiovascular and pulmonary surgery, at the Cardiopulmonary Diseases Hospital Complex “Cardeal Dom Alexandre de Nascimento”, which has carried out, since its inauguration, last November, more than fifty complex operations.
The data were made public, yesterday, in Luanda, during the opening ceremony of the academic year.
The training will cover more than 1,500 health technicians, including doctors, nurses and administrative staff, with the support of four Cuban doctors, who are already in Angola.
The highlight is internments, an area for which 80 doctors will be trained, in addition to 17 other specialties.
The pedagogical and scientific director of the Hospital Complex, D’jamel Kitumba, said that, within three years, the country will have a large number of specialist doctors trained internally, with emphasis on highly complex surgeries.
“We will count not only on specialists in cardiac or cardiovascular surgeries, but also from different hospital areas, such as internal cardiology, internal and intensive medicine, neurosurgery and imaging”, he guaranteed.
He added that, at that moment, the Hospital Complex for Cardiopulmonary Diseases has 1,700 workers, who are also involved in the training process, at the undergraduate, graduate and ongoing training levels.
The Secretary of State for Health for the Hospital Area, Deodato Inocêncio, challenged the hospital’s management to be the first in the country to carry out, soon, a heart transplant.
“With the approval of the Transplantation Law and the Medically Assisted Reproduction Law, we will soon have the inauguration of an institution that will respond to these two major sectors, in addition to this hospital unit”, he underlined.
The director-general of the Hospital Complex, Carlos Masseca, said that the opening act of the school year is due to one of the guidelines of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, at the time of the inauguration of the new Sanatorium Hospital, in the sense of transforming it into a training centre.
“Today is a historic day, as the training of the first cardiovascular surgeons begins”, said Carlos Masseca.
In turn, the cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon, coordinator of the internship, Guiomar Correia, made it known that, in the country, there are only nine doctors with this specialty, adding that, with the bets that the Government is making in the sector of Health, believe in better days.
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