Luanda - The coverage of primary health care units in municipalities increased from 25 percent in 2017 to 60 percent in 2022, as a result of investment made to expand and modernize large, medium and small sized infrastructures.
From 2018 to 2022, the health sector invested a lot in the construction and rehabilitation of hospitals, hemodialysis centers, institutes, health centers and medical posts, laboratories and medical sciences research centers.
For this aim, the government has created several programs to improve medical assistance and medicine supply, maternal care and child health nutrition, combat major endemic diseases and strengthen sanitary information and health research, which brings health facilities and medical services to all municipalities in a more regular and humanized basis.
To this end, the country's 164 municipalities have received hundreds of health professionals, including nurses, doctors, and specialists.
The government’s strategy to increase medical services at municipalities on a regular basis and with the recommended quality included the deployment of mobile medical teams to hard-to-access locations in 85 of the country's municipalities.
The government built several municipal hospitals in Camanongue, Moxico, with installed capacity of 70 beds; Cuemba (Bié/70 beds), Quimbele (Uíge/70), Maquela do Zombo (Uíge/70), Quilemba (Huíla/44), as well as health centers in Quibala (Cuanza Sul/8) and Luhongo (Benguela/42).
In the last five years, the country gained new infrastructures for specialized treatments, such as hemodialysis centers, putting an end to hundreds and even thousands of Angolans traveling abroad every year seeking hemodialysis treatment.
In the same period, eight provinces were equipped with hemodialysis services: Luanda, Huíla, Moxico, Bié, Benguela, Cabinda, Malanje and Huambo, in central and general hospitals where more than 3,700 patients with chronic renal diseases are being assisted weekly throughout the country.
Other health infrastructures were built and rehabilitated, such as orthopedic and rehabilitation centers, as well as molecular biology centers installed in Luanda, Lunda Norte, Huambo and Uíge.
The government launched the Program for the Improvement of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition to respond to the challenges of maternal, neonatal, and infant health, with the aim to avoid premature mortality of babies.
