Africa is no different from other continents. Although these were hit first, the virus arrived quickly. Of the more than 50 countries that make up the continent, only 13 have a woman at the head of the Health portfolio. Among them is Angola, which has shown resilience against the pandemic.
In the list of names of the 13 women ministers, prepared by Capital Business, is that of Silvia Lutucuta.
But who is the minister who, in recent times, has been in the news because she is one of the main figures of importance in the fight against covid-19 in our country?
Silvia Lutucuta was only 16 years old when she entered the Faculty of Medicine at Agostinho Neto University - Huambo. She graduated in medicine and was considered the best and youngest student in her class.
She was also a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Huambo, in the Department of Morphology of the Chair of Histology.
After her school career, at the age of 21, she was offered a scholarship. She had specialized in Cardiology at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. Silvia Lutucuta chose this specialty due to the influence of her grandmother, who in addition to advocating that women should be emancipated and should have the right to education, suffered from heart problems.
Now, she has stood out for her response in fighting the covid-19 pandemic by leading the health portfolio in Angola.
Like Silvia Lutucuta, 12 other African countries have a woman leading the fight against the new coronavirus. According to the list, the ministers are Amna Nurhusein from Eritrea, Fawziya Abikar from Somalia, Hala Zayed from Egypt, Jacqueline Lydia Mikol from Congo, Léonie Claudine Sorgho/Lougue from Burkina Faso, Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin from Ethiopia, Lizzie Nkosi from Essuatíni, Maria Inácia Có Sanhá from Guinea Bissau, Nazira Abdula from Mozambique, Ruth Jane Aceng from Uganda, Ummy Ally Mwalimu from Tanzania and Wilhemina Jallah from Liberia.
