Beira: HCB haemodialysis services reportedly held hostage to ward inauguration

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Beira: HCB haemodialysis services reportedly held hostage to ward inauguration

11:12 CAT | 01 Dec 2017

Diário de Moçambique

Equipment at the medical haemodialysis unit recently built at Beira Central Hospital (HCB) and destined for the treatment of patients with renal problems is installed, but services will apparently not become available until the respective nursery ward is inaugurated.

According to the Diário de Moçambique, the infirmary is capable of operation but is being held hostage to the official opening ceremony.

Meanwhile dozens if not hundreds of citizens with renal problems are dying while others spend large sums of money travelling to Maputo and abroad to find haemodialysis services.

According to our sources, the installation of equipment started in September of the current year, with the expectation that the unit would be in operation within a short time, which has not happened.

The HCB board has declined to offer an explanation because it says it needs authorisation from the Ministry of Health.

On the advice of those responsible for the largest health unit in the central region of the country, Diário de Moçambique contacted MISAU’s communication and public relations department, which told us that it would authorise the management of the hospital to comment on the matter, something which had not happened by the end of yesterday.

The schedule for the roll-out of the medical haemodialysis unit – a kind of artificial kidney machine – provided for the assembly of the equipment followed by the personnel training.

The acquisition of the haemodialysis equipment preceded the construction of a building to house the service, and it was hoped that after these two phases were complete it would speedily come into operation.

Source: Diário de Moçambique