Luanda - The inauguration and re-inauguration of hospital units, combined with the admission of new professionals, were highlights in the year about to end in the health sector, strengthening the service capacity of the National Health System (SNS).
By Euridice da Conceição, ANGOP journalist
This year, three health units were reopened and inaugurated, namely the Neves Bendinha Specialized Hospital, the new Bengo General Hospital, located in Bucula, in the province of Caxito, as well as the Irene Neto maternity hospital, in the province of Huíla.
The Neves Bendinha specialized hospital is an infrastructure that, due to its characteristics and capabilities, constitutes another example of the process of strengthening the National Health System, contributing to the promotion of health, disease prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of people with burns, as well as to encourage research and staff training, providing equity and reducing inequalities in access to quality and humanized healthcare.
All services are equipped with equipment and diagnostic means that will allow you to increase your resolution capacity, being able to carry out exams, particularly X-rays, ultrasounds, diagnostic laboratories and clinical analyses”.
The new hospital facility, with a capacity for 80 beds, also has blood therapy services and a morgue with 12 drawers, and is fully equipped with a medical gas network.
The hospital unit was built in an area of approximately 6,581 square meters, and is prepared to provide primary and specialized health care for patients with burns, pediatric and adult internally, intensive care, emergency bench, laboratory, imaging (x-ray and ultrasound).
The province of Bengo saw the creation of the new General Hospital, located in the town of Bucula, around five kilometers from the city of Caxito.
The hospital unit, called Reverend Guilherme Pereira English, has 200 beds, 15 clinical areas distributed in 24 blocks, six residences for professionals and a hemodialysis center.
To be transformed into a training and scientific research center, the hospital unit will encompass several services, with emphasis on general medicine, pediatrics and surgery.
The work cost the State coffers around 63 million and 180 thousand dollars.
In the city of Lubango, province of Huíla, the doors of the Irene Neto maternity hospital were reopened, distinguished by the high level of modernity of its equipment.
The Irene Neto Maternity Hospital, which will serve the population of the province of Huíla and surrounding territories, has 122 beds.
This is a unit that, in the last five years, has benefited from rehabilitation and equipment, with financing in the order of 12 million and 500 thousand US dollars.
The infrastructure also has, among the new features, an intensive treatment unit, disease wards and a fully structured emergency room.
The renovated unit now has an ultrasound scan for emergencies and external consultations. The intervention in the maternity ward covered the three floors and the ground floor, where the obstetrics, neonatology and amphitheater services operate.
Admission of new staff
The admission of new professionals, in a total of 6 thousand and 98, selected in the 2022 Public Competition, including doctors, nurses, diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, hospital support and general regime is also a reference in the sector throughout the year.
Surgery campaigns
However, the sector was not limited to the emergence of new infrastructures or the admission of new professionals, as it saw, throughout the year, the promotion of massive surgical and vaccination campaigns to serve the most vulnerable.
In the free surgical campaigns, 4,000 patients were treated in various specialties, as a way of reducing the number of users on the waiting list, as well as the length of service.
The first massive campaign involved several health units, namely the hospitals Américo Boavida, Materno Infantil Dr. Azancot de Menezes, Josina Machel, Hospital Complex for Cardiovascular Diseases Dom Alexandre do Nascimento, the Pediatric hospital David Bernardino, Angola’s National Ophthalmological Institute of Angola (IONA), Hospital General of Luanda and Dr. Walter Strangway, in the province of Bié.
In this campaign, several surgeries were performed, including cataracts, hernia, urology (hydrocele, varicocele and cryptorchidism, hydrocephalus, obstetric fistulas.
There was also surgical intervention in ileostomy and colostomy, cleft lip, gynecological and pediatric surgery.
In this range of campaigns, polio vaccination and deworming were also highlighted.
Around 5,431,232 children under five were vaccinated against polio and vitamin A was introduced to 3,800,577 children, from six months to under five years of age.
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