The center will be able to provide medical assistance to 240 patients with chronic renal failure, distributed in three shifts.
According to Jornal de Angola, the infrastructure will thus respond to the lack of hemodialysis services in the region, which required patients to travel to the capital or to countries such as Congo Kinshasa and Congo Brazzaville for treatment.
Built in an area of 2,600 square meters, the center is composed of five treatment rooms, two hemodialysis induction rooms, storage, pharmacy, offices, clinical analysis laboratory and waiting room.
According to the same newspaper, the center also has an oxygen distribution room and a hospital waste treatment room.
João Ernesto dos Santos, used the occasion to indicate that "the Cabinda Hemodialysis Center is an infrastructure that joins the set of important and necessary special units to revert the widespread claim that the country still does not have enough of them".
Also present at the ceremony were Silvia Lutucuta, Minister of Health, Marcos Nhunga, Governor of Cabinda province as well as general officers of the Angolan Armed Forces.
The center is the result of a partnership between the Ministry of Defense and Veterans of the Fatherland and the Ministry of Health and was built with public funds.
