Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Japanese government, through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated various waste management equipment to Mozambique, and cold chain material for the handling and preservation of vaccines against Covid-19.
The donated material was handed to the government in Maputo on Friday, at a ceremony attended by the National Director of Medical Assistance. Luisa Panguene, the Japanese ambassador, Kimura Hajimi, and UNICEF representative Maria Fornara.
“The ten waste incinerators will be installed in all the provinces except Maputo, which already has a system”, said Panguene. “Associated with this grant, Japan is supporting our country in the acquisition of three cold stores, through the Covax mechanism. They will arrive in February, to increase vaccine storage capacity in Maputo, Sofala and Zambezia provinces”.
“In addition to expanding our capacity to conserve vaccines, and to dispose safely of hospital waste, this donation will allow us to save resources that were used to hire cold systems for the conservation of vaccines”, she added. “It will strengthen our services in the post-pandemic period.
For his part, the ambassador said the equipment will improve the systems for the conservation, handling and transport of medicines, in the places where the cold stores will be installed.
“We began this project last year with the aim of giving cold chain equipment to developing countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean”, he said. “In addition to Unicef, we also have an international cooperation agency (JICA), through which we shall distribute trucks equipped with cold systems”.
The grant is part of about 39 million dollars that the Japanese government has made available to developing countries suffering from the impact of Covid-19.
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