The data were advanced by the PIIM technical group coordinator at the end of the IV meeting of the Interministerial Commission for the Implementation of the Integrated Intervention Plan in Municipalities, oriented by the Minister of State for Economic Coordination, José de Lima Massano.
According to Márcio Daniel, the meeting analyzed the degree of global implementation of the PIIM, highlighting that the education and health sectors prevailed in the portfolio of projects already concluded.
"At the moment we have in the PIIM portfolio 2687 projects that until now have consumed a total of 643 billion kwanzas from the State coffers. We currently have 863 projects completed in the PIIM portfolio", he stressed.
Márcio Daniel said that in the health sector, 129 projects had been completed, of which 45 health centers offer the population 1350 hospital beds, and 18 municipal hospitals, which make over 1260 hospital beds available to the population.
"Which means that so far the PIIM has already made available to the population close to 2820 new hospital beds distributed in the categories of health centres, maternal and child centers and municipal hospitals", he stressed.
"It is also worth mentioning, in the context of providing infrastructure for primary health care, the completion of 46 health posts completed under the PIIM", he added.
With regard to the education sector, Márcio Daniel informed that 313 projects have been completed, which provided the population with 8842 new classrooms and the insertion of 1.1 million new students in the various educational levels into the educational system.
At this meeting, Márcio Daniel continued, it was advised that for the economic and financial year of 2024 small and medium-sized public investment projects should be transferred to local bodies.
"At the moment we have 86 percent of the PIIM projects carried out by the local scope", said the official, underlining that "the municipalities have shown that if properly oriented they are capable of executing the projects included in their portfolios with quality".
The PIIM was launched in 2019 by the President, João Lourenço, to cover the 164 municipalities of Angola, providing for actions in the sectors of health, education, construction and public works, administrative infrastructure, roads, energy and water, security and order public health, urbanism and basic sanitation.
