Portugal to send field hospital to Cabo Delgado in Mozambique – Coimbra News
The Portuguese president said today, at a European Union training center in Mozambique, that a field hospital is being planned to support Mozambican troops in Cabo Delgado and that military equipment will soon arrive.
In the district of the Bay of Maputo, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in the district of a bay of Maputo, does not visit a unit of the European Union (EU) military training mission, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa defended that this project should be continued, which is having “so distinct, so exceptional results”.
“It is worth continuing. It’s a little worth it to be able to have the equipment that arrives the longest to approve a European level very soon”, he said, adding that “a first equipment has already been approved”, which should be “in the next few weeks, a month, a month and quite”.
“And after that he is already in a possible field hospital”, said a chief for the possible campaign, who later highlighted as “the head of the Delgado campaign, with the initiative all in the campaign that the Mozambican forces have shown” .
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa pointed out that “Portugal is closely linked” to this training mission, driven by the Portuguese military presidency of the European Union, in the first half of 2021, “because of the situation in Cabo Delgado”, and created soon after, in July of this year.
As President of the Republic and Supreme Commander of the Portuguese Armed Forces, he was “very, very honored by the intervention of the European Union, and in particular the Portuguese intervention, which was much superior and very effective”.
The province of Cabo Delgado, rich in natural gas, has been terrorized since 2017 by acts of violence by armed groups, with some attacks being claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.