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Patients with pituitary tumors will be treated in the country

Patients with pituitary tumors will benefit from medical treatment in hospitals across the country. The announcement was made by Sílvia Lutucuta, Minister of Health, who said that there was no longer a need for patients to travel abroad due to the fact that they had “competent professionals and technical capacity for diagnosis and postoperative treatment”.

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"There will no longer be a need for patients to travel abroad, because we have competent professionals and technical capacity for the diagnosis and postoperative treatment", said the holder of the Health portfolio, quoted in a note from the Ministry of Health, which VerAngola had access.

The hypophysis, explains the guardianship, concerns a "gland located at the base of the brain, called the 'master gland' because it has the function of producing hormones that control the functioning of other glands".

Regarding the massive surgery campaign, added the note, the minister indicated the province of Cabinda "as one of the locations covered for the second phase of the campaign due to the technical capacity that the General Hospital of Cabinda has".

Thus, the campaign in that province will have professionals from the neurosurgical teams of the Complexo Hospitalar Cardeal Dom Alexandre do Nascimento, to carry out highly complex surgeries.

The minister also left the alert for the fact that the surgeries are free, having called for the denunciation of extortion attempts.

"The whole process is free. You don't have to pay anything. Therefore, if there is any attempt, sometimes people appear who want to extort money from users, we want our population, our users, to promptly report these situations", said the minister, quoted by Rádio Nacional de Angola (RNA).

In addition, another of the sector's concerns is the fact that there are a large number of patients who need surgery and arrive at hospitals in a serious condition.

"We are concerned about the complexity of the obstetric and gynecological cases that have appeared. Giant myomas, giant tumors, therefore, people who are suffering or who do not know it, for the most part are very young women", said the minister.

"The other major issue is the problem of obstetric fistulas, there is a very large stigma (...). The other major issue is patients with colostomies. Colostomies, on average, cannot last longer than three months where applicable, but we have been seeing patients who have had colostomies for one, two, three, four, five more years, who did not know that the colostomies had to be closed", she added, quoted by RNA.

The minister also considered that "there is a need to talk more about diseases" and that the communication strategy will "mobilize" professionals, "who are already well mobilized, to talk about these diseases and help educate the population".

When people do not feel pain, they do not appear "and sometimes the disease is very serious, they are young people and sometimes their fertility is compromised. We have to communicate more in relation to these diseases, which is a great challenge", added Sílvia Lutucuta, cited by RNA.

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