The position was this Wednesday expressed in a press conference, in which the union announced a march this Saturday, in solidarity with the union president suspended from his professional activity, following a disciplinary process for alleged violation of professional secrecy.
According to the president of SINMEA, Adriano Manuel, "exorbitant expenses" are being made that could be used for other situations, referring to the inauguration of new hemodialysis centers.
"The cost of a hemodialysis center, as well as the maintenance of hemodialysis, is 50 times more if we had to prevent it, it is understood here that the major pathologies that lead to hemodialysis in our country are high blood pressure, diabetes and malaria, especially in children. If we work on prevention, these people will never get kidney failure ", he considered.
The union leader criticized that instead of working on prevention, one works for the curative system and "this only happens because the Government does not talk to people".
"We should start to prevent high blood pressure, we should work in the primary health system, this is where the potential elements that could reach renal failure are identified and it is from there that we will work", he stressed.
Adriano Manuel defended that there is a subsidy for drugs for hypertension, diabetes, "as in any part of the world", because they are chronic diseases with very expensive treatments, so it is impossible for people to bear the costs.
"The money that is spent on maintaining hemodialysis, if the Government takes that money and subsidizes drugs for high blood pressure, for diabetes and above all for malaria, absolutely certain that we would have few patients with kidney failure. When that doesn't happen, we are investing a lot in curative medicine when we should preferentially invest in preventive medicine ", he stressed.
The President opened this Monday a new hemodialysis center, in Luanda, the fifth and largest in the country, created in the last two years, an investment whose value has not been advanced, and the construction of others is expected in the coming months, being an objective Government to create at least one center in all provincial capitals.
