According to the minister of State for Social Affairs, Carolina Cerqueira, patients with renal disorders, cardiac problems and with cancer, as well as those suffering from orthopaedic and ophthalmic issues are already benefitting from adequate medical assistance in the country.
The government official mentioned as example the good results being obtained, since its inauguration this year, at the Dom Alexandre do Nascimento Cardiopulmonary Diseases Hospital, in Luanda.
She also highlighted the positive work being done in four integrated centres of blood transfusion, among other medical interventions of reference.
Carolina Cerqueira was speaking this Monday at the First Conference on Medical Board Assistance in Angola which is happening in the capital of the country.
The State minister also gave data on the government’s on-going bet on the quality of medical services through the frequent recruitment of physicians and nurses, as well as the inauguration of new health units.
Carolina Cerqueira seized the occasion to inform that at least 2,620 physicians have recently started specialized training courses in the whole country.
She went on to stress that the Angolan Executive is ever committed to strengthening Primary Health Care and increase people’s access to family doctors in the municipalities, plus the investments in the equipping of health units.
Meanwhile, according to data collected by ANGOP, the country had 245 Medical Board patients and 150 accompanying mates in Portugal. Each patient, according to the data, was benefiting from a state (medical board) annual assistance of about five million kwanzas.
Source: Angola Press News Agency