The holder of the Health portfolio also made it known that there are more than 50 doctors doing this specialty.
"We still have little more than 100 cardiologists, we can even say that more than 80 percent are in Luanda, and what is being done is to train more and we have more than 50 doctors doing the specialty of cardiology", indicated the head from the Health portfolio, cited by Rádio Nacional de Angola (RNA).
It should be noted that the minister was speaking within the scope of a cardiology meeting. With the co-organization of Clínica Sagrada Esperança and Hospital Cardeal Dom Alexandre do Nascimento, in the event, which took place this Wednesday, at Hospital Cardeal Dom Alexandre do Nascimento, the problems surrounding this medical specialty were on the table.
On the occasion, the person in charge of cardiology surgeries at Clínica Sagrada Esperança, José Roberto Santos, quoted by RNA, informed that "together with colleagues who came from the United States of America" they found "common solutions for the problems of" patients, in the sense of to optimize and approximate "treatment methodologies".
In turn, the head of cardiovascular services at Hospital Cardeal Dom Alexandre do Nascimento, Valdano Manuel, mentioned the numbers of heart surgeries performed at the hospital this year: "Right now, we have a total of 187 heart surgeries performed, when we compare with last year, we performed almost three times as many surgeries, we have a monthly average of 25 surgeries/month", he indicated, quoted by RNA.
