Mozambique: PM urges health research managers to work creatively

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Mozambique: PM urges health research managers to work creatively

7:53 CAT | 28 May 2018

Photo: AIM

Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Wednesday urged the new leadership of the National Health Institute (INS) to innovate and to intervene creatively so that the institution can respond to the current health challenges facing the country.

Among the challenges he mentioned were malaria, cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases and HIV/AIDS.

Speaking at the ceremony in Maputo where he swore into office Ilesh Jani as General Director of the INS, and Eduardo Samo Gudo Junior as his deputy, Rosario said the leaders of the Institute should carry out to the full their tasks, which included developing a health research system, and the establishment of partnerships inside and outside the health system, to increase levels of efficiency and boost the impact of INS activities.

Access to health care was one of the government’s priorities, said the Prime Minister, “bearing in mind that only with healthy human capital can we ensure increased production and productivity and thus guarantee improved social and economic welfare”.

For his part, Ilesh Jani said the response to the challenges posed by the Prime Minister involved consolidating, over the medium and long term, a scientific culture in the health system, so that all decision are taken based on scientific evidence.

“We need to build a health research system that covers the entire country”, he said. “But we need to do a lot to raise the capacity of our human resources, to consolidate research facilities and to establishment partnerships, nationally and internationally”.

Set up in 1975, the year of Mozambican independence, the INS is the body which manages, regulates and inspects all activities concerned with the production of scientific evidence in the health area.

Source: AIM