Mozambique: Health centre vandalized in Mogovolas

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Mozambique: Health centre vandalized in Mogovolas

8:36 CAT | 18 Mar 2025

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Unknown assailants have attacked and vandalised the Nametil health centre, the main health unit in Mogovolas district, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula.

According to a report in Monday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Carta de Mocambique” the intruders were amed with a variety of weapons, including Molotov Cocktails. They damaged the phamacy, the laboratories, the storeroom and the paediatric ward. Some of the medicines stored in the health centre were set on fire.

One patient undergoing treatment in the Nametil centre lost his life. Fearing the worst, the nurses on duty abandoned the centre and fled to somewhere safer.

Nametil was the scene of earlier attacks, during the unrest sparked off by the results of last October’s general elections, widely believed to be fraudulent. A mob attacked and destroyed the Cholera Treatment Centre, set up by the government in partnership with the NGO “Doctors Without Borders”.

In the Nampula district of Liupo, reports “Carta de Mocambique”, a group of 11 men tried to attack the police command in the Quinga administrative post. The attack was unsuccessful because the police received a tip-off in time to prepare their defences.

Quinga is an area that was outside government control for two months after a follower of former presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane had himself proclaimed “Regulo” (chief). This man launched a manhunt, pursuing government officials who then fled to the provincial capital, Nampula city.

The Liupo district government used the riot police to take back control of Quinga in January.

Source: AIM