Maputo, 7 Oct (AIM) – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has called on the National Health System (SNS) to improve the country’s management of medicines in order to ensure that they do not run out at the health units.
According to Nyusi, who was speaking on Saturday at the ceremony marking the inauguration of Massinga District Hospital, in the southern province of Inhambane, improving health care provision is not just about building new health facilities. It is also essential to ensure human resources and equipment, including the availability of essential medicines.
Nyusi claimed that the shortage of medicines is often a result of management problems.
“The management needs to be better trained and modernized. We need to humanize care in health facilities, noting that access to health care is a right provided for in the Constitution of the Republic and in the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations”, he said.
According to Nyusi, the newly inaugurated hospital makes a reality of the long-held dream of the population of Massinga and neighboring communities to have close access to quality health services to meet the growing demand for health care.
He explained that Massinga hospital, which is part of the presidential initiative “One District, One Hospital”, is a modern infrastructure, equipped with high technology and services, including an emergency service, operating theatre, wards with a capacity of 80 beds, a blood bank, outpatient care, medicine storage, clinical services and radiology, among others.
“There are specialisms that the population needs, but we don’t have any specialists. We need around 8,000 in the immediate future”, he said, adding that the health unit will assist around 258,000 inhabitants of Massinga.
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