Huambo - The "Princesa Diana" Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center in Huambo has increased its monthly average production of prostheses and orthosis from 15 to 45 this year to better meet the needs of users.
The "Princesa Diana" Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center in Huambo has increased its monthly average production of prostheses and orthosis from 15 to 45 this year to better meet the needs of users.
The information was disclosed to ANGOP by the center's director, Sabino Adão, during the opening of the hospital's 5th anniversary celebrations to be marked on September 27, under the motto "Together for integrated rehabilitation".
According to the hospital manager, the production of this equipment has increased due to the specific and continuous training of professionals to provide a quality service, as a result of its status as a teaching hospital.
He added that these figures allow the center to provide better care for patients, particularly victims of aviation and mining accidents, as well as others with traumatic injuries, neuro-psychomotor developmental delay, congenital and acquired deformities, rheumatic diseases, among others.
Sabino Adão said the center has only four orthopedic engineers, eight technicians and six assistants, which is still not enough, given the demand for services and that the institution needs at least 30 engineers, 40 technicians and 20 assistants.
The center with a capacity to accommodate 30 patients has a monthly average of more than 25,000 citizens assisted, whose services are secured by 204 workers, distributed among the Clinical Analysis, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Medicine, Orthopedics, Pediatrics and Clinical Psychology specialties.
Huambo's "Princess Diana" Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center was founded in 1979, at the time under the name Centro Ortopédico da Bomba Alta (COBA), re-inaugurated on September 27, 2019, by Prince Henry Charles Albert David. ZZN/JSV/ALH/TED/AMP
