Africa-Press – Cape verde. The president of the Association of Municipalities of Santo Antão (AMSA), Orlando Delgado, challenged this Monday the Government to support the families in need in carrying out complementary examinations, such as TAC and Magnetic Resonance.
Orlando Delgado launched this challenge in conversation with journalists, after the presentation of the “Fund More” Government program in the municipality of Paul, stating that the performance of these exams represents a “enormote enormous cost” for the families in need.
“In the same way that the government has already been supporting the exemption of moderating fees, reducing the payment of water and electricity, I would also like to include support in carrying out these tests, as a way to help low-income families,” he asked.
According to the president of AMSA, the mayors have assistance in the affliction of many families to obtain 25 or 35 tales, often to pay for an MRI or an CT (Computerized axial tomography).
“The cost of an MRI, for example, is 35 stories, while a contrasting TAC costs 25 tales. These values are exorbitant for many families, who face enormous difficulties in defrauding these medical procedures.
Orlando Delgado also stressed that the Government must work as a “differentiated way” and justified that, while in the city of Praia there is the equipment for the tests in hospitals, and a person with low income can pay five to six escudos, in the hospitals of São Vicente and Santo Antão this is not possible.
In this sense, the president of AMSA argued that the Government should implement policies that significantly reduce the costs for low-income citizens, similarly to the exemptions from moderating fees and the reduction of water and electricity payment.
“It is crucial that the government adopts a more inclusive and differentiated approach, ensuring that all Cape Verdeans have equitable access to the necessary health care. City councils are making efforts to help, but often that is not enough.”
Orlando Delgado also highlighted the need to create positive discrimination, at least in the Hospital de São Vicente, so that it can acquire the necessary equipment and considerably reduce the costs of performing these complementary tests.
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