Luanda - More than three thousand Angolan physicians are being specialized in different areas, outside the country, as part of the action to improve medical and pharmaceutical assistance to the population, said on Wednesday, in Luanda, the minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta.
According to the minister, who was speaking to the press at the end of a meeting with the general director of ENI Natural Energy-Angola, João Maria, the program aims, among other objectives, to reduce the demand for health services outside the country.
In this sense, she made it known that the project, implemented in partnership with the Italian oil company ENI, will also cover four thousand nurses in various specialties.
Regarding the meeting, she made it known that it aimed to analyze the agreement signed in 2022 between Minsa and the oil company. Within the scope of this protocol, ENI provided more than 21 million euros for the implementation, over three years, of an international health training project for doctors and nurses in various specialties.
The minister informed that her governmental department is working to extend this funding.
The focus will be mainly on the areas of pediatric and adult cardiology, pulmonology, neonatology and fetal medicine.EVC/MCN/TED/jmc
