Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Union of Workers of Financial Institutions (STIF) today signed a protocol with the Dalal Djamm Hospital in Dakar to provide healthcare to members and their families under preferential conditions.
The document was signed in the city of Praia between the president of STIF, Manuel Varela, and Philippe Moreira, member of the board of directors of the Dalal Djamm hospital, doctor and university professor, Senegalese-Cape Verdean.
The protocol provides for priority assistance to union members in order to reduce the period of stay in Dakar and consequently reduce the costs of accommodation and travel and the attribution of a 30% discount on the value of the general table applied by the Hospital in consultations and exams.
It also provides for the use of Telemedicine and periodic trips (quarterly or semi-annual) by medical teams to Cape Verde to carry out specialty consultations.
According to the president of STIF, Manuel Varela, this protocol with this Hospital in Senegal is yet another alternative option that STIF makes available to its members and their families.
“Senegal is close to Cape Verde, has low travel costs and members do not need a visa”, he maintained, highlighting that the STIF Management understands that a healthy working environment necessarily involves having healthy workers and their families.
“That’s why it pays special attention to this aspect, without neglecting its primary mission, which is to defend workers’ labor rights”, added Manuel Varela.
For his part, doctor and university professor Philipe Moreira expressed his satisfaction with this protocol for providing healthcare to Cape Verdeans.
As he said, the Dalal Djamm hospital is a level three hospital, which is the highest level in Senegal and which began its activities in 2016.
“It is a hospital that has a university convention and we have around thirty services and units, including cutting-edge services such as surgical oncology, cutting-edge urology”, he pointed out, adding that the hospital is expected to start within a year with kidney implantation and having a unit for the treatment of blood cancer.
The protocol now signed with STIF covers, in addition to workers, family members including the spouse, minor children, older children, up to 25 years of age, as long as they are studying and parents who are financially dependent on the member.
Manuel Varela recalls that STIF has partnership protocols with several clinics nationwide and partnerships with several friendly unions in Portugal, in which members and their families benefit from preferential health care in their SAMS services (Medical and Social Assistance Services). ).
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