Nyusi Calls For Better Patient Care In Health System
Maputo, 24 Jan (AIM) – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Monday called for a restructuring of the health sector to attend better to the needs of patients, and to ensure better management of health staff.
Speaking in Maputo, during a ceremony where he swore into office the new Deputy Minister of Health, Ilesh Jani, Nyusi said some of the situations he had discovered are intolerable – such as the fact that in the Cabo Delgado and Niassa provincial hospitals patients are obliged to buy hospital gloves for the staff before they are treated.
“I advise you to be always close to the concerns of the staff”, Nyusi told Jani. “I cannot have doctors who are distant from the concerns of their colleagues, colleagues of all sectors – nurses, ambulance drivers, even those representing us out in the countryside. We must understand their concerns”.
Jani was previously General Director of the National Health Institute (INS) and in that capacity he was well aware of the challenges facing the health sector. As the new deputy minister, said Nyusi, he must consolidate and expand the gains achieved to date.
The President urged greater efficiency in the procurement of goods and services for the Health Ministry. Procurement “must obey scientific rules, so that we don’t have medicines that are past their expiry date, or which are not allowed in the country, or which are sold at very high prices”.
Nyusi hoped that the Ministry can attract financial resources, and establish partnerships to ensure the success of the presidential initiative: “One district, one hospital”.
Jani told reporters “the guidelines are clear in that we must promote team work which involves all the family of health in solving our problems”.
For a rapid solution of problems, Jani called for boosting the training of staff in the area of health research.
(AIM)
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