Funds available to complete Maravia district hospital

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Funds available to complete Maravia district hospital

8:52 CAT | 27 Dec 2017

Governor of western Mozambican province of Tete, Paulo Auade

The governor of the western Mozambican province of Tete, Paulo Auade, has guaranteed that the funds are available to continue building a district hospital in the town of Fingoe, capital of Maravia district.

He gave this guarantee at an end-of-year dinner for members of the provincial government and other senior officials.

Building work on the Fingoe hospital had been interrupted because the money ran out. “The finance is now available to conclude the work”, said Auade, “but first the contract must be renewed, which will involve approval by the Administrative Tribunal. Then work will resume and continue until it is completed”.

He stressed that this hospital is the responsibility, not of the Tete provincial government, but of the Ministry of Health. “The contractor has requested a revision of the budget for the conclusion of the work”, Auade added.

The governor added that, to improve health services in the province, an additional 87 health professionals were hired in 2017, slightly more than the 81 envisaged. Two new waiting houses for pregnant women were built, in Magoe and Mutarara districts. Tete province now has 78 units of this nature adjacent to health units, where women can wait in the days immediately preceding the birth of their children.

Health projects begun this year, but which will be concluded in 2018, include the expansion of the Doa and Luia-Chifunde health units, which are being upgraded from type 2 to type one health centres, and the construction of a radiology block in the Zumbo Rural Hospital.

As for the education service in Tete, Auade said that over the year 2,323 double school desks have been acquired and placed in primary schools. Since two pupils can sit at this type of desk, and since the schools work more than one shift, the desks have benefitted 9,292 pupils.

614,570 pupils this year were taught in 1,235 classrooms – an increase of 3.9 per cent in comparison with 2016. Auade added that 1.28 million primary school textbooks were distributed free of charge during the year.

Source: AIM