21 December 2007
Huambo — The government of Angola's central Huambo province, through the health sector, is creating working and accommodation conditions for the new 48 Cuban physician who will start working in 2008, in various health units of the region.
The Cuban doctors serving in several specialities will consolidate the staff currently under control of the sector, totalling 87, among Angolan and foreign citizens operating in various localities of the province.
The provincial director of Health, Elias Finde, noted that they (the physicians) will work in the first phase for health units based in the districts of Huambo and Caála, located 23 kilometres of Huambo city.
Officials belonging to the Health Ministry, functioning in planning, statistics and architecture, paid last week a visited to central Huambo province, with view to assessing the accommodation and working conditions of new Cuban doctors, as well as the equipment being installed in the central hospital, under rehabilitation and at health centre of Casseque III. The main diseases affecting the region are malaria, diarrhoea, acute respiratory diseases, measles and meningitis.
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