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In Mozambique there is less than one health unit per 10,000 inhabitants, a study by the Ministry of Health reveals. The provinces of Niassa and Gaza have the highest ratio and the City of Maputo the lowest.
The inventory, carried out by the National Health Institute, also reveals that 19% of the total 1,643 health units have no electricity, 12% do not have a water source inside or on the premises of the unit, and 21% do not have a toilet for patients.
The “One District, One Hospital” programme for the five-year period of governance just started aims to respond to the dramatic scenario still facing millions of Mozambicans more than four decades after independence.
“The national average ratio is less than one health unit per 10,000 inhabitants. The provinces of Niassa and Gaza have the highest ratio of health units per inhabitant, with one health unit per 10,000 inhabitants. Maputo City has the lowest ratio,” the National Inventory on the Availability and Readiness of Health Infrastructures, Resources and Services analysed by @Verdade reveals.
“The results of this work build indispensable evidence for the planning of health services, as well as for continuous monitoring of services provided and available resources. The National Inventory findings suggest that special attention should be paid to the readiness of health services, including the provision of preventive, curative and support services. This report also suggests that one of the sector’s priorities in the coming years should be to reduce the fragmentation of services and the loss of opportunities for synergies between health programs,” the document reads.
The National Institute of Health document recently made public by the National Institute of Health indicates that there are 1,651 public health units in our country, of which 81% have a source of electricity, 88% have a source of water inside or on the unit, 69% have toilets for workers, 79% have toilets for patients, and about 46% of those health units who should have wards for pregnant women actually have them.
“The ratio of hospital beds is 5 per 10,000 inhabitants and the ratio of maternity beds is 5 per 1,000 pregnant women. The ratio of health professionals is 6 per 10,000 inhabitants, and the most-cited technical category in health units is maternal and child health nursing,” the National Inventory reveals.
Based on the SARA (Service Availability and Readiness Assessment) methodology recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the extensive document also reveals that there is a “deficit in the provision of services for non-communicable diseases. The proportion of health units that provide diagnosis and management of chronic respiratory diseases (the sentinel disease being asthma) is 61%, and less than a third (22%) offer diabetes diagnosis and management. Cervical cancer screening has the highest readiness index (72%) and the diagnosis and management service for chronic and cardiovascular respiratory diseases has the lowest (32%) .”
By Adérito Caldeira
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