Mozambique: Patients complain of serious noise pollution at Marrere hospital, in Nampula

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Mozambique: Patients complain of serious noise pollution at Marrere hospital, in Nampula

1:13 CAT | 09 Mar 2020

File photo: Noticias

Patients in the Marrere General Hospital in Nampula city are complaining about the noise pollution produced by commercial stalls [‘barracas’] located near the health unit.

The complaint is made by the patients’ companions, who scold the merchants for what they deem a lack of respect and sensitivity towards the suffering of hospital patients.

They say that case becomes particularly serious at weekends, when the ‘barracas’ are swarming with consumers of alcoholic beverages and other psychotropic substances, who swirl to the sound of music at volumes high enough even to damage eardrums, and putting patients’ health – especially cardiac patients’ – at risk.

Carlos José, 39, said that the noise pollution prevents patients from resting – and their companions too – calling for speedy intervention to restore the requisite tranquillity.

But traders in the surrounding area deny all the accusations, and say the noise at weekends emanates from the supporters and players at the soccer tournaments which take place in a sports facility near the hospital.

Stall owner Elias Constantino said that the Health Directorate had even warned of the need for a calm environment in order to allow hospital patients to rest. “Since then, we’ve respect the call. We are aware that, one day, we will be hospitalised and will need rest. We would not like to go through the same situation,” Elias said in his own defence.

Nelson Janeque, the owner of another ‘barraca’ selling alcoholic beverages by the hospital, admitted that there was a public concert with a high power PA system near the hospital in December 2019, and that it was perhaps about that occasion that the companions of the hospital patients were now complaining.

Source: Noticias