Luanda - Neves Bendinha Specialised General Hospital ´s director-general, Dadi Bucusso Netemo, said Friday in Luanda that the health unit has gained an intensive care unit (ICU), an operating room and a laboratory, following rehabilitation.
With the new, fully-equipped laboratory, the so-called "Burns 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, which joins an existing one, according to the director, the medical team will be able to streamline and increase the number of surgeries, reducing the waiting list.
Neves Bendinha, rehabilitated in four years, has the capacity of 96 beds for internal patients.
In order to increase the number of patients, the hospital will receive 17 doctors in the specialities of internal medicine, physiatry, plastic surgery and family doctors.
Dadi Bucusso Ntemo also said that, the arrival of this medical team will be an asset for the hospital, as it will reduce waiting times, one of the major problems the hospital was facing.
Neves Bendinha General Hospital was operating provisionally in the Zango Urban District in Viana and, according to the director, the process of transferring the patients is already underway and they will start to be received on 2 October.
During the rehabilitation, the hospital's 353 professionals, including doctors, nurses and analysts, were trained to better handle the state-of-the-art equipment installed.
In 2022, the hospital treated more than 4,000 patients at its Emergency Department.
Meanwhile, a new Burn Hospital has been under construction since 2022 in the Kilamba Sattelite City and should be completed by March 2025.
It is being built on an area of 9.5 hectares. The building space comprises 48,000 square metres. It has six floors and four auxiliary buildings, six operating theatres and an auditorium for 224 people. EVC/ART/DAN/DOJ
