Mozambique will now have 40 more specialty doctors to provide services in internal medicine, ophthalmology, maxillofacial surgery, anesthesia and resuscitation, following the completion of the training that took place at Maputo Central Hospital (HCM). The sectors of pathological anatomy, pediatric surgery, dermatology, gynecology and obstetrics, cardiovascular surgery, psychiatry, otorhinolaryngology, pneumology, orthopedics, traumatology, forensic medicine,...
The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) took to the streets today to march in repudiation of the waves of violence resulting from the demonstrations. There have already been 108 shootings and 16 deaths. "On behalf of all health professionals, we want to say enough with the shootings and violence, and that we can unite to save ourselves and get the country out of this...
The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) has decided to suspend the resumption of the strike that had been scheduled to start in September, as a result of progress in negotiations. AMM intends to give the government more space to meet its demands. According to the doctors, talks with the Executive have made progress, which is why it has decided to suspend the...
This year, the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has hired more than 700 health professionals to respond to the cholera emergency in the country. Another 500 health technicians from the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Nampula, Sofala, Zambézia, Tete, Manica and Maputo have been trained in the fight against cholera since January...
After a meeting with the government, the Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) decided yesterday to postpone to September 2 the start of a 21-day strike that was due to begin on Monday (29). "The strike will not start on July 29, but will move to September 2," announced the...
Doctors will resume their strike on July 29, and are talking about the chaos that the national health system could become during the 21 days of the strike. The announcement was made on Monday by the Mozambican Medical Association itself. The doctors say they are tired of being ignored by the government,...
The lack of payment for overtime work, rounds and other activities outside normal working hours could lead resident (post-graduate) doctors at Maputo Central Hospital (HCM) to paralyze their activities. The doctors, whose numbers have not been calculated, have not been paid for more than a year's work in overtime...
A team of internationally renowned doctors from Lisbon, Portugal, brought hope and expertise to the city of Quelimane. Headed by Dr. Graça Oliveira, a respected paediatrician from the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, and Gonçalves Lobo, a master in Public Health, the team was warmly welcomed by the Quelimane Municipality for an important mission: to improve...
The ratio of ophthalmologists in Mozambique is one for every one million inhabitants, ophthalmologist Margarida Chagunda revealed today in Maputo, and suggests that other professionals should be employed in eye health matters. "Human resources for health, in general, are very limited, and for eye health even more so. We have...
He is seven years old and in 2020 he underwent complete amputation of his genitals. The doctors are trying to reconstruct it, but there is already one certainty: the little boy's life will never be the same again. This is the second case of amputation of the genitals of a minor, curiously in the same province, Tete, and...