Luanda - The minister of Health, Sílvia Lutukuta, said Tuesday in Luanda that the country needs more than 1,800 health centres to provide better services to the population.
Sílvia Lutucuta was speaking at the 13th edition of Café CIPRA – an event promoted by the Presidency of the Republic Press Centre - which addressed the "problem of humanised care in the health sector", pointing out that 90% of this number is related to primary health care.
She said that in Luanda Province alone the health sector needs 660 health units, including three of the size of the Cacuaco and Viana hospitals, which are currently being finalised, and the rest for primary care, taking into account the needs arising from population growth.
According to the governor, with the implementation of new procedures for the purchase of medicines, it was possible to reduce costs by 65%, adding that work is underway to guarantee medicines for major endemic diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, among others.
She said that access to primary care has improved considerably, from 25% to 70%.
The minister said that in the last five years, the workforce has increased by more than 40% (41,000 professionals from various careers), 155 primary level hospitals have been built as part of the Integrated Intervention Plan for Municipalities (PIIM), and six large units have been built. SJ/OHA/jmc
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