Camabatela – Around 148 health professionals, including pediatricians, surgeons, obstetricians and intensivists, are needed to ensure the full functioning of the Ambaca Regional Hospital, province of Cuanza-Norte.
The health unit also needs internal doctors, imaging specialists, neonatologists and gastro-enterologists.
Due to a lack of specialists, the ultrasound service and the already equipped operating room aren't functioning.
Speaking to ANGOP, about the functioning of the health unit, the institution's general director, Lúcio Mucage, defended the reinforcement of the blood bank, as well as the creation of a pavilion for the treatment of patients with tuberculosis, in addition to ambulances.
In the epidemiological chapter, it pointed to malaria, with 6,200 cases in the 1st half of the year, as the main cause of hospitalization.
In recent statements to the press, the governor of Cuanza-Norte, João Diogo Gaspar, reiterated the need to recruit more doctors in the province.
He also appealed to doctors in the province, who finished their specialty training in Luanda and Huambo, to return to their original hospitals, and respond to the population's needs.
The province has 200 doctors out of the 550 needed.
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