Luanda - The subsidy for the treatment of diabetes and hypertension patients is one of the proposals presented, last Monday, to the sixth commission of the National Assembly (AN).
The proposal was presented by Matadi Daniel, on behalf of doctors specialized in nephrology, during the working meeting between the specialized work commissions of the National Assembly and the social partners.
"If we realize that these two pathologies make up the majority of chronic kidney failure, these drugs should be subsidized," he argued.
According to the expert, the citizen with a salary of less than KZs 150 thousand should benefit from a 100% subsidy, that is, have free access to such drugs.
The doctor also proposed the production of generics to mitigate non-negligible diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV.
Matadi Daniel also spoke about the Human Organs and Tissues Transplantation Law that was approved in 2019 and promulgated by the President of the Republic.
According to the physician, the association proposes that there should be a coordinating body for the monitoring of all activity between staff training, so that the country has this valence.
The doctor reported that more than 95% of kidney failure patients are poor and they should have an integration and subsistence allowance.
To Matadi Daniel, hospitals must have the capacity to train specialists, unlike the recruitment that has been done for the sector's staff.
"Only by training specialists shall we have sustainability at hospital level", he stressed.
To the official, given the high debt to the haemodialysis units, the state must define a single compact price for all hospitals.
Meanwhile, the president of the National Assembly’s sixth commission, Victor Kajibanga, affirmed that the partners' proposals will be presented to the minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta.
