The information was released by the Portuguese Associação Ensinar Saúde Norte, which signed, in Vila do Conde, a protocol with the Hospital Baptista de Sousa, in Cape Verde, which until September will send four doctors and two nurses to Portugal to undergo specialized training in the environment. hospital.
The initiative is part of the PALOP EXPERTSAÚDE project, which started this year and which, by October 2026, aims to provide three-month specialized hospital training to 90 health professionals from Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique.
In total, 40 doctors, 40 nurses and 10 diagnostic and therapeutic technicians from these Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) will be trained.
According to the Associação Ensinar Saúde Norte, the first participants, from the Hospital Materno Infantil Manuel Pedro Azancot de Menezes, in Angola, began their training in the second quarter of this year.
Quoted in the press release, the president of Hospital Baptista de Sousa, Helena Rebelo Rodrigues, said that one of the pillars of the Cape Verdean hospital unit is the continuous training and training of specialists, with a focus on doctors and nurses.
"Clinicians need permanent updates, as this is an area with constant updates, in terms of clinical provision", she said.
In turn, Susana Sá, executive manager of PALOP EXPERTSAÚDE, highlighted that the program "intends to contribute to improving health conditions, responses and access for the population" in these three countries.
PALOP EXPERTSAÚDE is a project of Associação Ensinar Saúde Norte and several partners, which focuses on certified specialized hospital training, postgraduate education and training.
On June 28, the Cape Verde Medical Association (OMC) warned of the exhaustion of professionals in the archipelago, due to the work overload caused by the lack of specialists.
The WTO has 772 registered doctors, but only 432 are active, of which the majority (around 65 percent) are without specialties.
