Speaking at the presentation of the Huambo Hemodialysis Center (CHH), which was inaugurated by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, last Saturday, the holder of the Health portfolio said that the Government remains committed "in this five-year period to bringing hemodialysis to all the provincial capitals, with centers and services in new general hospitals and future centers attached to existing units".
The government official – cited in a statement from CIPRA, to which VerAngola had access – also highlighted that the "priority actions also continue to be the control of chronic non-communicable and infectious diseases, with a holistic and multisectoral approach, based on primary health care".
On that occasion, the note adds, the President of the Republic, accompanied by the First Lady of the Republic, Ana Dias Lourenço, walked through the various areas of the health unit, having also handed over the keys to two buses and a Land Cruiser car "for patient support".
According to the Minister of Health, the National Health System monitors approximately 3200 kidney patients "and has 18 public hemodialysis institutions, including services and centers distributed across eight provinces, duly equipped with technical means and qualified human resources to respond to the demand", the note reads.
"Around 3200 users are mainly followed in our public institutions, 2217 patients already undergo a total of 33,948 dialysis sessions per month", said the minister.
Lotti Nolika, governor of Huambo, ended up recognizing that the province has been recording "great gains" in the field of Health.
Regarding the center, she said it represents "a qualitative and quantitative increase" in response capacity: "The opening of this center represents a qualitative and quantitative increase in our health sector response capacity", she said.
The population also welcomes the opening of this center. This is the case of Pedro Canhanga, 50 years old, who three years ago made the trip to Bié, looking for medical assistance, expressing himself "happy to know that he will undergo treatment in the city where he was born, Huambo, after three painful years of going back and forth to Bié", adds the statement.
It should be noted that the CHH has 56 monitors and 19 inpatient beds "with all technical and human conditions to provide services to acute and chronic patients undergoing conventional dialysis, peritoneal dialysis and Nephrology inpatient care". Furthermore, it consists of three floors, occupying an area of 3550 square meters.
Being attached to the Sanatorium Hospital, the center, which will operate in the former facilities of the Faculty of Medicine of the José Eduardo dos Santos University, has "a capacity to care for 294 patients in three daily shifts and 392 in four".
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