Africa-Press – Angola. A group of 60 health professionals, including doctors, nursing technicians and hospital support technicians, from the 11 municipalities in the province of Huambo benefited from a training action, lasting three years, specializing in General and Family Medicine.
The course, administered by Cuban specialists, within the scope of bilateral relations between Angola and Cuba, is part of the training program for health personnel and aimed at improving medical and medication care, in a primary way, in health units in the region, with emphasis on rural communities.
The director of the Provincial Health Office of Huambo, Lucas Nhamba, pointed out, in the closing act of the training action, that Family Medicine constitutes an improvement of the social and qualitative approach, with the guarantee of individualized direct health care.
The training, he maintained, made it possible to increase the skills and abilities of doctors, ensuring greater preparation to develop care, teaching, administrative and investigative functions in the main areas of the Medicine sector.
Lucas Nhamba mentioned that the family doctor is defined as the specialist with a broad profile, capable of guaranteeing care for the population without distinction of age or sex. “It is the professional considered the pillar of the patients’ health system, whose purpose is to make a direct approach to the patient”.
The director of the Provincial Office highlighted that these professionals work at the primary level, which includes municipal hospitals, centers and health posts.
“The concern is not the main focus of diseases, but the methodology used in the approach to the population’s health programs, in which, in a personalized way, the doctor registers the families and makes home visits, ending up knowing and understanding the way of life of these people”, he concluded.
The Health sector in Huambo is provided by 6,366 professionals, including doctors, nurses, administrative staff and hospital support.
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