Africa-Press – Cape verde. The citizens again insisted on the need for the government to build a hospital in the city of Porto Novo, Santo Antão, with the justification that the current health center is at the limit of their capacities.
Several citizens, approached by Inforpress, called for the construction of a hospital or “at least” the expansion of the current health center, already with more than two decades of operation, considering that the infrastructure “does not already respond to the needs” of the portonovenses.
Laurindo Rodrigues, António Santos, Adilson Silva, José Évora and Maria Lopes are some of several people who understand that Porto Novo needs “for a long time” of a hospital, since “the health center is outdated”.
The tour operators themselves, already several times, have requested the construction of a hospital in the city of Porto Novo, today with 11,000 inhabitants.
The port-novenses are again asking for the hospital at a time when they began construction works of a health center in the village of Ribeira das Patas, in the interior of Porto Novo, a work that should be ready within ten months, in an investment of 90 thousand contos.
The Minister of Health, Filomena Gonçalves, visiting Santo Antão, recently expressed the opening of the Government in evaluating the claim of the port-novens about the need to build a hospital in the municipality of Porto Novo or expansion of the current health center and its best training.
The governor appealed, on the occasion, to the Sanitary Charter of Santo Antão, which provides for a regional hospital, built in Ribeira Grande, and the health centers in other municipalities that have been working in complementarity in the health region.
The municipality of Porto Novo, with just over 16,000 inhabitants and occupying an area of 558 square kilometers (two-thirds of Santo Antão), has, for 22 years, a health center that, according to the local health authorities themselves, has been “a long within the limit of its capacity”.
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