The Prime Minister guarantees that the government is working to strengthen measures aimed at eliminating the detour of medicines from the National Health System. Quoted by Rádio Moçambique, Adriano Maleiane, who was speaking in the city of Pemba, said that he recognized that some health units in the country have been lacking drugs because of financial resources,...
Cabo Delgado: Terrorists steal ambulances and medicines in Quissanga
A group of Islamic insurgents stole two ambulances during the most recent attack on the Quissanga district, which took place last March in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique. According to sources quoted by the newspaper "O País", in addition to the two ambulances, the terrorists also stole another state vehicle. "The vehicles were loaded into...
Health units without antiretrovirals
There is a shortage of antiretroviral drugs in several hospitals across the country, a situation that has compromised the treatment of people with HIV and other associated complications. "Notícias" writes, quoting the Citizen Observatory for Health (OCS), that the situation had already been reported in the first quarter of the year, but continues to occur in a considerable number...
Anti-retroviral treatment: Government considers introducing weekly or monthly medication
The Deputy Minister of Health, Ilesh Jani, said that the health sector is considering introducing weekly or monthly drugs for antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV-AIDS in the country. "There are some new drugs, there are drugs with new formulations, so it's possible to give a drug with less frequent doses. The patient can...
Government says there are medicines for the next three months
The Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, assured this Thursday morning that the national health system has a stock of medicines available for the next three months. On the second day of the session of questions to the government in Parliament, Armindo Tiago guaranteed that in June, "the country will receive another...
Gaza: Health facilities in Guija lack essential medicines
There is no medicine in the health units in the district of Guija, in the province of Gaza, health professionals told the provincial secretary of state, Lourenço Lindonde. At a meeting held on Wednesday at the district headquarters, the health professionals announced that the district, for example, has no serums, which means that they have to be bought outside the district....
Medicines become more expensive in Mozambique
Medicines, vaccines and other biological products for human use are going to be more expensive in the country, given the dynamics of the pharmaceutical market and the existence of new product categories as a result of technological developments. A statement from the Ministry of Health (MISAU) on the new fees for services provided by the National Authority for...
Zambézia without cholera medication
The health authorities in Zambezia province have expressed concern about the lack of medicines for the treatment of cholera and other diseases, due to the cut in National Road Number One (EN1), in the Momade region of Nicoadala. This, according to the director-general of the National Health Institute (INS), Eduardo Samo Gudo, is not only...
Private clinics illegally administer drugs exclusive to the MOH
There are private clinics that illegally administer drugs and other biological products of exclusive use of the Ministry of Health in Maputo province. This is a revelation made on Tuesday by the Secretary of State in Vitória Diogo Province. The Secretary of State in Maputo province says there are private health units that administer medicines and biological products...
Cuba Moves Toward Further Testing of Drug to Treat Alzheimer's Disease
Cuba will begin new clinical trials of a drug developed by a local laboratory to treat Alzheimer's disease, according to the local Health Ministry which confirmed that the nasally administered drug NeuroEpo has achieved promising results in the treatment of neurodigestive pathologies. Alzheimer's disease is one of the leading causes of death...