New district hospital for Memba

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New district hospital for Memba

9:27 CAT | 10 Dec 2018

Photo: Facebook / Egídio Vaz

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi is scheduled to inaugurate on Saturday a district hospital and a desalination plant in Memba, on the coast of the northern province of Nampula.

Taken together, construction of the hospital and the desalination plant cost about 100 million meticais (around 1.6 million US dollars).

The new hospital offers complete medical services, including an operating theatre, a maternity ward, a laboratory and a morgue. The hospital director, Celso Gil, told AIM that all the services are already operational.

“The hospital is fully equipped”, he said. “There are 39 professionals working here. Six of them are doctors, including specialists in orthopaedics, surgery and obstetrics”.

He added that shortly before AIM spoke to him a caesarean section had been carried out, and the mother and baby are both in good health.

“We’re pleased because we have shown that women can trust us, and can seek our maternity services to give birth”, said Gil. “We have midwives and we are campaigning in the communities to publicise this service”. He thought this a great advance on the difficulties that pregnant women had faced in Memba previously.

As for the desalination plant, forming part of the Memba water supply system, Pedro Cardoso, an official of the company that installed it, said that eventually at least 8,000 people will benefit from it.

“For now, we have 4,500 beneficiaries”, he said, “But in the near future we shall reach more people from nearby regions. We have the capacity to provide ten cubic metres of water an hour”.

Memba town is about 270 kilometres from the provincial capital, Nampula city, and the district, according to the 2017 census, contains about 313,500 inhabitants.

Source: AIM