29 October 2008
Luanda — The country will have its first medical centre with a top technology for treating infertility, to be built in Luanda's Talatona area, within a year.
This information was given by the physician and director of the project, Francisco Cristóvão, who spoke during the ceremony that served to present the project.
Francisco Cristóvão also said that this project results from the initiative between the Angolan Santo António medical centre and the Brazilian Mater Medicina Reprodutiva centre from São Paulo City.
During the meeting, the director of the project also mentioned that various couples with infertility problems are compelled to travel to Europe or America for treatment, a situation that will be changed with the construction of this clinic.
"The construction of this hospital will bring a lot of benefits to the people that want to have children, because it will reduce some expenditure and it will also allow the couples to be under treatment, without running any dismissal risk in their job or abandoning their houses for staying long time abroad" he said.
The expert also said that the Santo António medical centre and Mater Medicina Reprodutiva created the "Projecto Vida" project that consists of assistance units for infertile couples in Luanda, by using high technology and international acceptable standards in diagnosis and therapy.
There are a lot of infertility cases in Angola, thus the investment in this area, with the collaboration of Brazilian experts that count as from last Tuesday on 150 assistance centres, since the creation of the first one in 1982.
Assisted reproduction medicine or human insemination in African countries is currently performed South Africa, Uganda, and Angola will be the third country of the continent to have this technology.
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