Luanda – Angolan Vice President, Esperança da Costa, this Monday reinaugurated the Neves Bendinha Specialised General Hospital, in Luanda, after it uderwent deep rehabilitation, refurbishment and re-equipping.
With the rehabilitation, the new infrastructure, also known as "Hospital dos Queimados”(burn hospital), will gain new beds, three laboratories, Intensive Care Unit, and a Telemedicine Centre, as well as new wards.
With the new, fully-equipped laboratory, the Neves Bendinha Hospital will be able to carry out microbiological tests to determine the degree of infection in a safe and concrete way.
With the new operating room, the medical team will be able to streamline and increase the number of surgeries, reducing the waiting list.
Neves Bendinha, whose rehabilitation works lasted four years, has the capacity of 96 beds for in-patients.
After doing the unveiling act, Vice President Esperança da Costa - accompanied by the Minister of State for Social Affairs, Dalva Ringote, ministers, and the Luanda Province governor, among other Health Ministry’s senior staff – watched an institutional video on the different stages that involved the rehabilitation of this specialised hospital.
The Vice President also took a tour of the infrastructure through which she received information on the functioning of several areas.
Neves Bendinha General Hospital was operating provisionally in the Zango Urban District in Viana Municipality and, according to the director, the process of transferring the patients is already underway.
Meanwhile, a new Burn Hospital has been under construction since 2022 in the Kilamba Sattelite City and it should be completed by March next year.
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