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Mozambique: Almost Half of All Doctors Are in Maputo
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
9 April 2008
Posted to the web 9 April 2008
Maputo
Almost half of the doctors in Mozambique work in the capital city and in Maputo province, the government spokesperson, Deputy Education Minister Luis Covane told reporters on Tuesday.
Covane said that, according to data supplied to the cabinet by Health Minister Ivo Garrido, 49.5 per cent of the doctors are concentrated in Maputo city and province, while the remaining 50.5 per cent are distributed among the other nine provinces.
197 of the doctors employed in the Mozambican health service are foreign specialists.
Covane said that the current ration is one doctor per 30,000 inhabitants, nowhere near the target suggested by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which is one doctor per 1,000 inhabitants.
The situation is gradually improving with the training of more Mozambican doctors. The country's two medical faculties, at the publicly-owned Eduardo Mondlane University and at the Catholic University, are now graduating around 100 doctors a year. Covane said that, at the graduation ceremonies this year, 93 newly qualified doctors received their degrees from the two faculties and are now being sent to positions throughout the country.
Covane said that the government's target is that, as from next year, there should be at least one doctor in each of the country's 128 rural districts. This will require that housing for doctors is available in all the districts.
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He said that the government also approved a bill amending the legislation on local authorities, which will allow municipal elections to be held on a single day later this year, within the two months prior to the end of the term of office of the current mayors and municipalities.
The bill must now be approved by the current sitting of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, as must a bill expanding the number of municipalities from 33 to 43.
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