30 September 2008
Luanda — Angolan Government has pledged to promote medical aid and provide better health facilities, both at primary and secondary levels, in the 2009-20012 period, Angop learned Tuesday in Luanda.
According to the deputy minister of Health, Evelise Fresta, the Government intends to reinforce the vaccination and disease prevention programmes, improve aid and expand rehabilitation and social assistance to patients.
This, according to the source, is aimed at goals that reflect better health indicators, with stress to the reduction of infant and maternal death rates.
These goals, the deputy minister added, are intended to strengthen the combat of Hiv/Aids, reduce the prevalence by
three percent, address 70 percent of the cases of tuberculosis and cure 85 percent of the sick.
Another goal is to reach the indicator of three physicians for 10,000 inhabitants, against the current rate of one medical
doctor for 10,000, which is internationally considered as reasonable.
According to Evelise Fresta, the Integrated Service of National Medical Emergency Service of Angola (SIEMA), that provides ambulances especially equipped for the basic and advanced aid has be established.
Thus, Angola's human development index has risen from 0,381 percent in 2002, to 0,446, in 2005 which, according to the deputy minister, shows that a favourable evolution does not only result from the rise in the country's revenues, but also from public investments in the sectors of education and health.
She said this is a commitment the Government has taken up both locally and internationally.
To her, this is about continuing or speeding up programmes and actions which, she stressed, was possible since Angola achieved peace six years ago.
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