Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, assured this Saturday, in Luanda, the continuity of the Executive’s investment in the health sector, with a view to expanding the country’s health network.
The Holder of the Executive Branch, who was speaking to the press at the end of a field trip to the construction works of the General de Viana and Queimados do Kilamba hospitals, in the country’s capital, stated that the ongoing works in the sector will not stop, having announced the construction of several health units in other parts of the national territory in the near future.
“We still have many units to build across the country, not just Luanda. And for those units, rest assured, there will always be resources,” he said.
He stated that the completion of the hospitals in Sumbe, in the province of Cuanza Sul, Ndalatando (Cuanza Norte) and Ondjiva (Cunene) is scheduled for 2024, as well as the start of construction of the health units in Catumbela, in the province of Benguela, in the Bailundo (Huambo) and Dundo, in Lunda Norte, in addition to the already announced Malanje General Hospital.
João Lourenço considered the possibility of the Mbanza Congo Hospital, in the province of Zaire, also being on the list for the year 2024.
In the province of Bengo, the Caxito General Hospital will be opened later this year, in December, to be built in the town of Bucula, five kilometers from the provincial headquarters.
For the country’s capital (Luanda), he said that the Cacuaco General Hospital is scheduled to open next year.
In addition to the units visited this Saturday, an Oncology Hospital is planned (near the Hospital Dom Alexandre do Nascimento/Palanca area) and another for trauma patients, the latter to deal with situations resulting from road accidents that are frequent in the country and affect, fundamentally, about young people.
Also on the agenda is the construction of an ophthalmology hospital in the Kilamba region, in the municipality of Belas in Luanda.
In addition to infrastructure, the President highlighted the investment in staff training, noting that many work in local reference units, such as, for example, Hospital Cardeal Dom Alexandre do Nascimento and Azancote de Menezes.
According to João Lourenço, most of the young people in these units completed their degree at the Agostinho Neto University (UAN), some specialized in Europe, others in Brazil, and returned to the country, demonstrating a patriotic sense, despite the trend in the world of “theft of brain”.
The President noted the works on the burns hospital, an infrastructure to be built in the city of Kilamba, in Luanda, whose works began in March 2022, in an area of 48 thousand square meters, and are being physically carried out in the order of the 12 percent.
Budgeted at 149 million euros, the project has financial progress of 8.67 percent and is being implemented in a space of 9.5 hectares.
It includes four buildings, with emphasis on a main one and an auxiliary one. It includes an oxygen production and water treatment station.
The main building consists of six floors and should house, among others, an administrative space, external consultations, emergency block, physiotherapy, emagiology, auxiliary and technical services, laundry, morgue and warehouses.
The six floors will be interconnected by a service tunnel to the auxiliary building that houses the Mechanical, Electricity and Plumbing (MEC) services.
Outside, the project also includes the construction of a car park with capacity for more than 364 vehicles.
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