Africa-Press – Angola. Patients with chronic and acute renal failure, in the province of Huambo, were provided with a Hemodialysis Center this Saturday, with a capacity for 19 beds, inaugurated by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.
Located at the Huambo Sanatorium Hospital, the Hemodialysis Center was rehabilitated with public funds, under the supervision of the Ministry of Health.
It has a dialysis room with 50 high-tech machines, responsible for filtering blood and ensuring simultaneous patient care.
The health unit will now serve patients with chronic and acute renal failure in three dialysis sessions per week and has the installation of an oxygen factory, in addition to other hospital services.
On a daily average, the hospital has the capacity to treat more than 40 patients in outpatient hemodialysis services.
In addition to the new Hemodialysis Center, the Planalto Central region has another, private one, opened in September 2013, which operates within the perimeter of the Huambo General Hospital.
Hemodialysis is a treatment for patients with acute or chronic kidney failure. In Angola, it is estimated that there are more than three thousand people with this disease.
The mortality caused by this insufficiency in Angola is still worrying, and the costs related to evacuation and treatment abroad are high, making treatment impossible, in most cases.
The increase in cases of patients in the country with hemato-oncological pathologies, lymphomas, leukemias, sickle cell anemias, medullary aplasias, whose only collective treatment consists of transplantation, also represents a concern for the authorities, which can be alleviated with the beginning of transplants in the country.
In 2020, the Angolan Parliament approved the Law on Human Tissue, Cell and Organ Transplantation, which responds to the need to ensure, in the country, the treatment of various diseases through transplantation.
With the approval of the diploma, public and private hospitals are authorized by law, for the first time in Angola, to transplant human organs to patients with kidney failure and other diseases that require a bone marrow transplant or with eye problems that require corneal transplantation.
For More News And Analysis About Angola Follow Africa-Press
