Luanda – Angolan head of State João Lourenço inaugurated Thursday the Specialised Center for Endemic and Pandemic Diseases (CETEP).
Located in Calumbo, Viana Municipality (Luanda), the 1,300-bed hospital unit is designed for Covid-19, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria patients.
After the inauguration of the first phase of the infrastructure, the Angolan Head of State, accompanied by some members of the Executive, toured the center’s service and service areas.
Built from scratch in an area of 62,000 square meters, the hospital has 73 beds for intensive care, equipped with monitors, fans, feeding pumps, infusion syringes, hemodialysis machines and heaters.
The hospital also has diagnostic areas with clinical laboratories with high competence in microbiology, antibiogram and molecular biology, as well as a cafeteria, kitchen, laundry and a heliport.
It has three aisles with dormitories and 200 residences to house most of its employees, as well as eight vehicles, including two ambulances and two buses for transporting employees.
As for the conservation of the environment, in this hospital located near the Kwanza River, all aspects of the treatment of water, solid and liquid waste were taken into account.
Second and third phases
The second phase of the hospital unit, whose plot of land is already available, will include an infrastructure with areas covering the emergency services, imaging, three operating rooms and a nursing ward for 30 inpatients.
It will also have an intensive care unit and a pediatric area with 14 beds, a training center and an auditorium for 300 people.
The third and final phase includes the construction of a central laboratory, a space for conversation of vaccines and a ward for 70 inpatients.
Source: Angola Press News Agency