"The goals we aim for with this project are clear and bold. We seek to reinforce the availability and improve the management of Human Resources for health at all levels: national, provincial and municipal", pointed out the minister, when speaking at the official launch of the project.
The holder of the Health portfolio considered that this "strategic investment will not only directly benefit health professionals", such as doctors, nurses, nursing and diagnostic technicians, but will also have "a positive and direct impact" on all education and, consequently, improving care for the entire population.
According to Sílvia Lutucuta, this project will be implemented "in three fundamental components for the much-desired universal health coverage" in the country.
The first component, she said, concerns "governance, policies, curricula and information systems in Human Resources, where 7.5 percent of funding is allocated", while the second concerns "training and strengthening the capabilities of resources human resources, with 87.5 percent of the amount financed". The last component will concern "management, monitoring and evaluation of the project, with 5 percent of the investment".
The Minister of Health reiterated that the "training and qualification of staff constitute the main priority of the Executive", highlighting that no effort has been spared to "mobilize financial resources for the admission of staff and specialized training of staff, as well as infrastructure structures, and everything necessary to provide humanized services" to the population.
Thus, she highlighted that, since 2018, "41,093 new professionals were admitted to the latest public competitions in all careers, which allowed an increase of 40.5 percent in the sector's total workforce".
"Likewise, the specialization program was initiated at all levels and careers, with a total of 3,202 specialty interns in 39 specialization programs currently being trained throughout the national territory, of which 598 are in the specialty of general medicine and family, we started post-secondary training and specialization in nursing and health management to reinforce the broad training program", she added.
According to the minister, we are "witnessing the official opening of the emergency health training plan", which will be implemented in the country's 18 provinces, and foresees, by 2027, "specializing and training 38 thousand professionals, including 3000 doctors, 9000 nurses, 9000 nursing technicians, 9000 diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, 4000 hospital support professionals and 4000 general regime professionals".
Furthermore, she reinforced that more than half (80 percent) of this training will be carried out in the country and in national institutions, "with everyone's collaboration, only 20 percent abroad".
In her intervention, among other aspects, she highlighted that, last year, with a view to strengthening the "specialized training program", the Government signed a "solid partnership with the World Bank for the specialized training of 38,000 professionals in the Health sector for around 142 specialties, of which 112 are under special regime, namely, 67 medical specialties, 30 nursing specialties, 15 specialties in the area of diagnostic and therapeutic technician, as well as 30 specialties in the general regime career over a period of 3 years (2024-2027)".
"We have been witnessing the emergence of new public and private hospital units, at all levels of care, and we are fully certain that, with all these efforts combined with a more qualified and well-trained workforce, we will considerably increase the quality of services health services provided throughout the country in a humanized way, thus bringing us closer to the full achievement of universal health coverage in Angola", said the minister.
