Mozambique cyclones: Coimbra provides €100,000 for reconstruction of Beira Hospital

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Mozambique cyclones: Coimbra provides €100,000 for reconstruction of Beira Hospital

3:34 CAT | 20 Aug 2019

Picture: Health4Moz

Coimbra City Hall yesterday approved the text of a protocol to be signed with a non-governmental development organisation (NGDO) providing €100,000 to support the reconstruction of Beira Hospital in Mozambique.

Beira municipality has been twinned with Coimbra since 1997 and the Portuguese municipality’s financial contribution is “solely to support the urgent reconstruction” of the city’s hospital, which in March “was tragically affected” by Cyclone Idai.

Coimbra municipality enabled the collection of “food and basic necessities to help the people of Mozambique, particularly Beira, taking into account the statement from the Embassy of the Republic of Mozambique in Lisbon and the immediate needs” as determined by the Mozambican government.

“The municipality now intends to continue to actively contribute to alleviating the difficulties caused by this calamity in Sofala province, in particular by contributing financially to ongoing reconstruction operations,” according to a municipality document released to reporters at the executive’s fortnightly session, where the proposal was approved unanimously.

The support protocol will be concluded with the non-profit private association Health4Moz, an NGO with “recognised and meritorious groundwork” in Mozambique, where it is involved in various “humanitarian assistance projects in the area of health, including training, health care, medication and food, and training of local medical personnel,” the note highlights.

Cyclone Idai affected at least 2.8 million people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

An area of about 1,300 square kilometres was inundated in Mozambique, according to estimates by international organisations, and the city of Beira, in the centre of the country, “was one of the hardest hit by the cyclone” on 14 March.

The rehabilitation of Beira Hospital by Health 4 Moz, “prioritises the operating theatre, given the need to respond to the demand for surgical services,” and was authorised by the Ministry of Health of the Government of Mozambique.

Source: Lusa