24 December 2008
Ndalatando — Eleven new health units, including a maternity hospital, were built and rehabilitated during the year 2008, in the northern Kwanza Norte province, in the light of local action of increasing the supply of basic health and medical assistance services to the population.
According to the local governor, Henrique André Júnior, who was on Tuesday speaking in Ndalatando city (provincial capital) on the occasion of year's end greetings, the inaugurated infrastructures were equipped with a total of 162 hospital beds.
The governor also stressed that medical assistance in the region improved greatly with the inclusion of 40 new Cuban physicians, who were contracted by the provincial government.
He also foresaw the start operating, in 2009, of one hospital and a health centre, in Ndalatando, and another in Kambambe, guaranteeing that they shall contribute to the uncrowding currently registered at the provincial hospital.
The official referred that due to government's investments in the health sector, the province currently has physicians in every district, a factor that contributed to curb the shortages of primary health cares granted to the population.
Governor Henrique Júnior still informed that the efforts of the government of Kwanza Norte continue being focussed on the combat to endemic diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis and leprosy through the expansion of programmes of epidemiological prevention and control.
Held at the Ndalatando conference centre, the ceremony was attended by various provincial government officials, magistrates, heads of organs of defence and security, religious entities, chieftains, representatives of political parties and invited guests.
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