Nyusi inaugurates Health Sciences Institute

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Nyusi inaugurates Health Sciences Institute

7:25 CAT | 05 Jun 2017

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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday inaugurated an Institute of Health Sciences, in the outlying Maputo neighbourhood of Infulene.

This institution is designed to meet the training needs of the Ministry of Health. The new institute cost about 19 million US dollars, financed by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The institute can accommodate 900 students. It has 15 classrooms, four laboratories and a computer centre. It will train nursing and technical staff in a variety of disciplines including mother and child health, preventive and general medicine, and the maintenance of hospital equipment.

Nyusi said the Infulene institute is part of a package of investments the government has been undertaking, with the assistance of its partners, to respond to the health needs of the public, incompliance with the Health Ministry’s strategic plan.

“The expectations are that this institute will contribute to the provision of quality health services, and will operate to internationally accepted standards”, said Nyusi.

He recommended that the institute should train staff with skills and attitudes that meet the needs and expectations of Mozambicans. “The objective of the teaching to be given in this institution must be to grant greater value to life”, Nyusi declared.

Earlier in the day, Nyusi inaugurated the new premises of the National Social Welfare Institute (INAS), the body responsible for running welfare programmes that benefit vulnerable and destitute Mozambicans.

He called on all citizens to become involved in the social protection of vulnerable people, ensuring their inclusion in the country’s development tasks. Social protection is not just the task of the government, he insisted.

Vulnerable individuals should not become outcasts. “A member of the family should not be abandoned in the street just because he is elderly, or is physically or mentally disabled”, Nyusi said. “On the contrary he deserves more tenderness, just as we were treated tenderly when we were children”.

The new INAS offices, built entirely with funds from the Mozambican state budget, was part of the government’s efforts to improve assistance to vulnerable strata of society, said Nyusi. The modern and comfortable facilities were a challenge to INAS staff to improve their work.

The government, he said, recognizes that vulnerable people must not be treated in an inhumane manner, because “they contain great potential for the social and economic development of the country”.

The government built the new INAS offices because it was “a national imperative to improve assistance to vulnerable social strata”, Nyusi added.

Source: AIM