The Secretary of State for Public Health indicated that annually new professionals will enter the sector in order to respond to the demand.
Quoted by Angop, Franco Mufinda indicated that professionals are called to integrate the special training emergency plan to train and qualify technicians, aiming to improve the assistance provided to users.
Speaking at the central act of the National Worker's Day, which took place last Saturday, the official added that the emergency plan for training the internship of medical and nursing specialization will make it possible to increase the knowledge of professionals and informed that they are in the internship, undergoing post-medical nursing training, 2620 professionals as well as 172 midwives.
On the occasion, Paulo Luvualo, President of the Order of Nurses, took the opportunity to ask that the working conditions and salaries of professionals be improved.
He indicated that to meet the sector's needs, around 10 to 12 nurses are needed for every thousand inhabitants, and that currently there are only two nurses for every thousand inhabitants.
It should be noted that in the 2018 and 2019 public tenders, 26,090 professionals were hired, of which 2945 were doctors. However, the numbers are still far from the values recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which indicates that the ideal is to have one doctor for a thousand inhabitants
Official data indicate that there is a need for about 28 thousand doctors to reach the value recommended by the WHO. Currently, the country has only eight thousand doctors, writes Angop.
