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About 5,000 Mozambicans live with haemophilia, but only Maputo Central Hospital can diagnose it
8:07 CAT | 20 Sep 2021
Photo: Rádio Encontro Nampula
About 5,000 people in Mozambique live with haemophilia, a usually inherited disorder in which the blood does not clot properly.
Speaking this Thursday morning, Nelson Damião, president of the Mozambican Association of Haemophilia and other Congenital Coagulopathies, noted that, throughout the whole of Mozambique, only Maputo Central Hospital was able to properly diagnose haemophilia.
This led to the death of about 130 patients from the disease, he said.
Damião added that Nampula province has 23 haemophilia sufferers, and that his association intended to approach the provincial government in the hope of raising awareness of the disease.
Haemophilia is congenital, and symptoms can include internal and external bleeding, bleeding gums and swelling in the joints.
Source: Rádio Encontro Nampula
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