15 May 2008
Maputo — The Mozambican Health Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river, on Wednesday, valid for one year, for health services to be rendered to HCB workers.
This understanding, signed between Health Minister Ivo Garrido and HCB chairperson Paulo Muxanga, is renewable every year.
Garrido described the ceremony as a special occasion because, for the first time, the Health Ministry has signed a memorandum with a Mozambican company. "This memorandum will contribute to an improvement in the health services in the work place", he said, while praising HCB's commitment to its social responsibility, and expressing a wish that other companies follow this example.
Garrido added that his ministry will select health professionals to work at the health centre operating in the dam town Songo, capital of Cahora Bassa District, where most of HCB's 650 workers live.
For his part, Muxanga said that his company will grant all the necessary support to the health staff. He added that, this year alone, HCB disbursed four million US dollars to finance social programmes, including staff training, production of materials for health services, and the construction and rehabilitation of health units.
Under this agreement, the Songo Rural Hospital is to receive an ambulance, which will facilitate the transfer of patients to other health units, in case of emergency.
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