Speaking this Tuesday, at the 13th edition of CaféCIPRA, the holder of the Health portfolio pointed out that in the province of Luanda alone the sector under her care needs 660 units.
"Of this number, according to minister Sílvia Lutucuta, the province of Luanda needs 660 health units, without the inclusion of the Cacuaco and Viana Hospitals, which are already in the completion phase, and three more units with the size of these two hospitals" , reads a statement from the Government, to which VerAngola had access.
On the occasion, the minister said that the sector recorded a reduction in costs when purchasing medicines, as a result of the new procedure implemented by the Ministry of Finance. "We make group purchases, people make public tenders on the Ministry of Finance's electronic platform and the big gain was the cost reduction. We managed to reduce 65 percent of what we paid before in the first tender", she stated, quoted in the statement.
Sílvia Lutucuta also assured that the Government is making investments in hospital units at all levels, reiterating the Executive's "continuous commitment to improving primary health care, with the construction of new health units, equipping and inserting 80 percent of professionals in the sector".
"People sometimes get the false notion that investment is being (made) only in large hospitals. But we are making investments at all levels. And we can even compare the ratio of third-level health units with those at the primary level, through the Integrated Plan for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM) which has 155 (units)", she said, quoted in another Government statement, to which VerAngola had access.
She highlighted that six new large hospitals have already been completed at the tertiary level, and this process continues with the rehabilitation, expansion and construction of new health units in several provinces.
She also pointed out that, with the improvement in primary care, indicators have been improving with regard to combating the main causes of mortality. "The indicators have also been improving in relation to tuberculosis or HIV-AIDS, especially in the transmission of HIV from mother to child", she indicated, adding that it has considerably improved, from 25 to 70 percent, access to primary care.
She also left the guarantee that they were committed to the training of human resources with a view to providing a humanized service. "The humanization of care depends a lot on the human resources we have, the conditions for providing care and several other factors", she stated.
"We have a population that has been growing three percent per year. And therefore, we have to align infrastructure and human resources with this population growth. In addition, we have the negative impact of social determinants and environmental determinants which, when they are out of balance, can appear", she added.
In the field of prevention, the minister highlighted "health literacy, staff training, improvement of infrastructure and medicine logistics, information technologies associated with better data collection and also communication as a priority", reads in the statement.
According to Sílvia Lutucuta, in the last five years, the sector has seen an increase of "more than 40 percent in the workforce", with the entry of 41 thousand new professionals from different careers.
Who also intervened at CaféCIPRA was the director of the Health Training Project, Job Monteiro. On the occasion, the person responsible reaffirmed that 38 thousand professionals will be trained and trained in various areas of health.
"Due to the need to improve the capabilities of these professionals, the emergency program will train 38 thousand in the most varied categories, namely three thousand doctors, 18 thousand nursing professionals, nine thousand therapeutic diagnostic technicians, four thousand general regime and four thousand in hospital support," he said.
Among other aspects, he also highlighted that the State, "in collaboration with the World Bank, benefited from financing of 200 million dollars to intervene mainly in three components, the first being training at all levels, with a specific allocation, where 80 percent of the value will be directed to primary health care", reads a statement.
It should be noted that this edition of CaféCIPRA had as its theme "Problematics of Humanized Care in the Health Sector", and, in addition to Sílvia Lutucuta and Job Monteiro, it was also attended by the general director of the Cardio-Pulmonary Hospital Complex Cardeal Dom Alexandre do Nascimento, Carlos Masseca, and the director of the Maternal and Child Hospital Dr. Azancot de Menezes, Maria Mendes.
