Portugal continues to receive 80% of Angolan patients undergoing treatment abroad – Current Affairs
According to the Angolan Health Minister, Sílvia Lutucuta, who spoke on the sidelines of the I Conference on health margins, the situation was reversed, as a result of the 2017 situation of management difficulties in the Portuguese and South African sectors, with a ” very large investment that was made in the country”.
“We started from almost 50 patients between the health sector of Portugal and South Africa in 2017, by this time the two sectors have only about 129 patients, with 80% of them in Portugal he said.
In the speech, the Minister of State for the Social Area, Carolina Cerqueira, stated that the Angolan executive has made a large investment in infrastructure, specialized services for the treatment of renal, cardiac, oncological, orthopedic and ophthalmological patients.
According to Carolina Cerqueira, patients with specialized specialties benefit from care and services in Angola, with examples of which Angolans can already be proud, namely with regard to cardiac surgery, which is performed at the Cardeal D. Alexandre do Nascimento Cardiopulmonary Diseases Complex .
“Patients who need hip and knee surgery are already being treated at the Américo Boavida Hospital and this is also a very significant improvement in the interventional care potential of the Instituto Oftalmológico de Angola”, he said.
The Angolan official also highlighted that, between 2018, the largest public tenders in the history of 2018, the two public tenders in the history of health in Angola were held, with the good of the administration sector of 33.09 new professionals in the special career and in the general regime of health. 100% of the training physicians in the country and abroad.
“In order to provide services in these new units, the specialization of doctors began, having been defined an emergency training plan, medical internship, directing the direct entry to the internship for all doctors”, he stressed.
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