Ondjiva- Seven patients with complicated health issues were transferred in the last 24 hours to the Simione Mucune General Hospital, Province of Cunene, after its inauguration Friday, by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.
These are six patients transferred from Ekuma and one from Namacunde Municipal Hospital.
The information was provided on Saturday to ANGOP, by the Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, highlighting that the transferred patients present serious cases of class 4 heart failure, quite uncomplex, severe respiratory diseases, diabetes, and one from the maternity area, whose parturient could not deliver a normal birth and had to go under a cesarean section.
According to the minister, the Simione Mucune hospital is a reference and specialized training unit to assist highly complex cases, as well as treat other medical and surgical pathologies, with equipment and instrumentation, and complementary exams.
She said that it offers neonatology, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics, orthopedics, neurology, Otorhinolaryngology, surgery, hemodialysis center, oxygen factory services, which will supply the hospital and other units.
Sílvia Lutucuta highlighted that technicians are responsible for monitoring the dynamics of the installed investment, where new professionals and others trained to serve and continue with more than 1,134 professionals were admitted, of which more than 104 doctors.
The unit with 220 beds will provide various services such as pediatrics, obstetrics, endoscopy, biology, ophthalmology, stomatology, emergency care, minor surgeries, X-ray, CT scan, hemodialysis, psychiatry.
The province of Cunene has a health network made up of 161 health units, including six municipal hospitals, one missionary, 44 centers, 109 posts, making a total of 1,941 beds. FI/FA/LHE/ART/CF/DOJ
