According to the minister, the law on transplants of human organs and tissues, approved approximately four years ago, made it possible to "create the legal basis" for these procedures to be carried out.
"The law created the legal basis for carrying out transplants of human tissues, cells and organs," she said, in an interview with Jornal de Angola.
"With the inauguration of new health infrastructures and the formation of multidisciplinary teams, we are closer to starting to carry out these life-saving procedures", added the minister.
As a way of analyzing the sector under her care, the holder of the Health portfolio highlighted the improvements achieved over the 22 years of peace.
"Peace is an achievement of the Angolan people and a fundamental premise for guaranteeing access to health services. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, Angola has experienced significant improvements in the population's access to health. These years of peace have provided a unique opportunity to implement and launch strategic initiatives, which resulted in notable advances in the health sector", she said, speaking to Jornal de Angola.
Among the achievements achieved, Sílvia Lutucuta highlighted that "over time", "a significant number of professionals were incorporated into the health system, with the workforce having been increased, in recent years, to 40.5 percent, of which, 3558 are doctors, 24,652 nurses, 8783 diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, 2817 hospital support technicians and 1328 general regime technicians, in addition to other health technicians, considerably improving access to quality and the ability to resolve the population's health problems".
Furthermore, she also highlighted the "specialization of the workforce" in this sector.
"Efforts have been made towards medical specialization. In the last five years, 266 doctors and 602 in post-medical specialization have specialized. Currently, 3202 interns are specializing in the country, 598 of which are family doctors, who are located in the municipalities, and 1549 post-media, to improve the quality of health services", she pointed out, adding that the ministry started "an ambitious project of specialization of 38 thousand health professionals, including doctors, nurses and diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, of general and hospital support regime".
In terms of infrastructure, the government official highlighted the growth in the number of beds. "The number of hospital beds grew from 13 thousand to 41,807, which means there was an increase of 28,807 beds. Of the number of beds currently existing, 1463 are in the ICU (Intensive Treatment Unit)", she said, in an interview with Jornal de Angola.
"Angola has undertaken a substantial process of construction and development of health infrastructures. This effort encompassed the entire country, covering the three levels of care, particularly in recent years. Angola currently has a service network with 3342 units health centers, of which 19 central, 34 specialty, 23 general and 172 municipal hospitals, as well as 766 centers and 2328 health posts, with the aim of strengthening the National Health Service", she added, also highlighting the "construction of 18 centers and hemodialysis services, distributed across nine provinces".
