"We are going to improve considerably in terms of human resources, there are promises to hire 8,000 professionals a year, but it all depends on the financial conditions, if we have financial resources we will make more hires", said the minister, quoted by Televisão Pública de Angola (TPA).
Speaking within the scope of the first meeting of jurists from the National Health Service, the holder of the Health portfolio also mentioned that in terms of infrastructure, they are doing everything to have reference hospitals in all provinces.
"In terms of infrastructure, we are doing everything to have hospitals of reference in all provinces (...). We want to have hospitals with all the capacity in terms of provinces, technical, human and also assistance", she indicated.
Sílvia Lutucuta also referred to the Integrated Program of Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM): "With the PIIM we have grown a lot, between posts, centers and municipal hospitals, which the PIIM advocates (...). I believe in another one or two years we will have around 300 units that were so recommended in the PIIM and we will continue to improve", she pointed out, quoted by TPA.
Already during the meeting, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health to which VerAngola had access, the minister asked "jurists who work in the area to interact on legislation and the way of applying the law in the health sector".
"To a certain extent, this will help to enrich what has been our provision of service to the populations, which will significantly contribute to what our objectives of sustainable development are", she assured, quoted in the note.
The government official also assumed the commitment of "continuing to work on the Basic Legislative Package for the Health Sector, despite the advances registered so far".
Sílvia Lutucuta also referred that "all legislation related to human resources" will be updated, especially with regard to professional careers.
"We want to work on our legislation as it is a guiding instrument that helps us to have better practices, not only to provide the assistance service for prevention, but also for the regulation of the sector itself", she said.
It should be noted that at the moment the sector "has around 200 lawyers and they work at all levels of the institution".
"For the director of the Legal Office of the Ministry of Health, Mutombo Mavunza, the purpose of the meeting between jurists was a deep reflection on the application of the legislation in force in the country in terms of the health sector from centers, posts, municipal hospitals and specialized reference units", reads the statement.
The official explained that, in the country, "the Constitution of the Republic consecrates, in its article 77, health as a fundamental right, whose materialization is up to the State, through the development of a functional Health Service throughout the national territory".
