Lubango - New services are available to users of the Irene Neto Maternity Hospital, in Lubango City, southern Huíla Province, a health unit reopened this Thursday by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.
It is a unit that, in the last five years, has benefited from deep rehabilitation and equipping, in a financing of around US$12.5 million.
The reopening takes place within the framework of the celebrations of March 8, International Women's Day.
The project is part of the Angola Revitalization Programme (social bonus), of the Block 0 Associations, which includes Total, ENI and Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, under the management of the Angolan Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, as well as of the National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuel.
Among the new services, the Lubango maternity has four new equipped operating rooms, a new neonatology and radiology room.
The infrastructure also benefited from an intensive care unit, disease wards and a fully structured Casualty area.
The renovated health unit now has an ultrasound for emergencies and outpatient consultations. The intervention in the maternity hospital covered the three floors and the ground floor, where the obstetrics, neonatology and amphitheatre services are located.
Installed in an area of 4,855 square meters, in the centre of the city, the Lubango “Irene Neto” Maternity, which was needing an urgent rehabilitation, ceased to function in December 2018. During this period, the services of the “Irene Neto” maternity hospital were temporarily transferred to some premises of the Central Hospital of Lubango “Dr. António Agostinho Neto”.
