Presidential order n.º 3/23, of 19 January, authorizes the construction and equipping of the Luanda Ophthalmological Institute (IOL), worth 75 million euros, which will be signed with Societé Française D´Équipement Hospitalier.
The dispatch states that the Ministry of Health signed, in 2019, the IOL construction contract with the consortium of companies made up of Homt España, S.A and Griner Engenharia, S.A.
Presidential order n.º 6/23, also of January 19, authorizes the acquisition of hospital equipment from the company Siemens Healthineeres and the training of technicians, for the equipping of the Pedro Maria Tonha "Pedale" Hospital Complex, in the amount of 13,6 million euros.
The Dispatch, consulted this Monday by the Lusa agency, refers that the equipment to be acquired is aimed at equipping the areas of radiotherapy, imaging and nuclear medicine, "on an urgent basis to ensure the continuity of the work and provide better assistance and medical follow-up to users".
According to the document, there is a need to adopt a swift and deconcentrated procedure for making a contractual decision, taking into account the Executive's concern to accommodate this health sector service within the scope of the priorities defined in the 2018 National Development Plan- 2022, with a view to improving the quality of life of the population.
In this sense, a contract was signed with the German Siemens Healthineeres for the acquisition of equipment for the areas of Imaging and Nuclear Medicine in the amount of 8.2 million euros.
The investment also includes a contract for training technicians, worth 2.1 million euros, and a contract for the acquisition of radiotherapy equipment, worth 3.3 million euros.
On the 9th of this month, the Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, visited the works at the Pedro Maria Tonha "Pedale" Hospital Complex, located in the municipality of Talatona, in the province of Luanda, and was informed that its physical execution is 56 per cent, having guaranteed that the inauguration will happen later this year.
In another order, the President authorized the expenditure of 14.9 billion kwanzas for the opening of emergency contracting of works to stop the progression of ravines, in the province of Lunda Norte.
Dispatch n.º 7/23, of January 19, mentions that the Ministry of Public Works, Urbanism and Housing has included in its program the Project to Combat Ravines, which can result in the destruction of housing infrastructures, landslides of roads and deterioration of consumer goods and damage to the water supply system.
The progression of ravines was found in 12 areas of the province of Lunda Norte, "there being an imperative and urgent need to start carrying out containment and stabilization works for the said ravines" to "restore road traffic in those locations", reads the dispatch.
