{"id":33137,"date":"2026-04-25T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/nuno-semedo-appointed-health-delegate-for-porto-novo"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:08:43","slug":"nuno-semedo-appointed-health-delegate-for-porto-novo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/nuno-semedo-appointed-health-delegate-for-porto-novo","title":{"rendered":"Nuno Semedo Appointed Health Delegate for Porto Novo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>General practitioner Nuno Semedo has been appointed\u2014on a temporary assignment basis\u2014to serve as the Health Delegate for Porto Novo, on the island of Santo Anta\u0303o, Inforpress learned today.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno Semedo, who succeeds Dr. Carlos Dias in the role, is a permanent staff member of the Ministry of Health\u2019s Directorate-General for Planning, Budget, and Management; effective immediately, he assumes the duties of Health Delegate for the municipality of Porto Novo.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of a new health delegate comes at a time when residents of Porto Novo have been complaining about a lack of medical coverage in rural communities, as well as operational issues at the health center in the city of Porto Novo\u2014a facility inaugurated over two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have consistently emphasized the need for the government to consider constructing a hospital in the municipality of Porto Novo, arguing that the current health center\u2014inaugurated in 2002\u2014&#8221;no longer meets the needs&#8221; of the municipality, which is home to over 16,000 inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health has explained that Porto Novo\u2014the largest municipality on the island of Santo Anta\u0303o\u2014possesses &#8220;a network of health services considered adequate,&#8221; comprising two health centers, six health posts, and nine basic health units, in addition to several private clinics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Cape verde<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Cape verde. General practitioner Nuno Semedo has been appointed\u2014on a temporary assignment basis\u2014to serve as the Health Delegate for Porto Novo, on the island of Santo Anta\u0303o, Inforpress learned today. Nuno Semedo, who succeeds Dr. Carlos Dias in the role, is a permanent staff member of the Ministry of Health\u2019s Directorate-General for Planning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-33137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-cape-verde"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nuno Semedo Appointed Health Delegate for Porto Novo - Cape Verde<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/nuno-semedo-appointed-health-delegate-for-porto-novo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nuno Semedo Appointed Health Delegate for Porto Novo - Cape Verde\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Cape verde. 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