Mozambique: Mozal supports Covid-19 counter-measures in Boane

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Mozambique: Mozal supports Covid-19 counter-measures in Boane

1:40 CAT | 30 Apr 2020

Photo: Noticias

Health services in the province of Maputo are being strengthened in their capacity to counter the spread of the new coronavirus with rehabilitation, equipment, and the purchase of preventive materials and ventilators for the treatment of those infected.

Aluminium smelter Mozal, which is located in Beluluane Industrial park, in the Matola-Rio post of Boane district, is supporting these efforts within the framework of its corporate social responsibility programme.

This week, Mozal offered the Boane health sector a donation of water tanks, buckets, soap, glycerine alcohol [sanitiser], disinfectants, spray pumps, masks and other material.

Mozal representative Gil Cumaio said at the time that the gesture supported the government’s efforts to mitigate the impact of the new coronavirus in Mozambique.

“We hope this material will help prevent the spread of the disease to other communities,” he said.

The initiative, he said, was a continuation of the support that Mozal provides to the health sector in the province, including the construction, rehabilitation and equipping of health units. Matola health centre had recently been equipped with an isolation centre exclusively for the care of coronavirus patients, for example.

And in a few days, Mozal would hand over four ventilators to the Maputo Provincial Directorate of Health for the treatment of people infected by Covid-19, Cumaio said.

Boane administrator Teresa Mawaie said that Mozal’s gesture was a great contribution to the health sector and would help mitigate the burden placed on government by providing prevention material and ventilators for the treatment of those infected.

The administrator urged all Mozambicans, especially the citizens of Boane, to be aware of the danger of the pandemic and choose prevention over to cure as a way to bolster the government’s effort and save lives.

Mozal is an aluminium smelter joint project in Beluluane Industrial Park, Maputo, Mozambique. South32 owns 47.1 per cent of Mozal Aluminium, while Mitsubishi Corporation Metals Holding GmbH holds 25 per cent, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited owns 24 per cent and the Government of the Republic of Mozambique holds 3.9 per cent (through preference shares).

Source: Noticias / South32