Luanda - Angola is preparing conditions for opening in December this year of a health facility for treatment of diseases through transplants, the health minister Sílvia Lutucuta has said.
The minister was speaking at the meeting with MPs of the 6th Committee of the National Assembly (AN) on Tuesday, ahead of the proposal for 2022 State Budget.
The parliament approved this year the Law on human tissue, cells and organ transplants, aimed at securing the treatment of several diseases in Angola.
The Law will allow public and private hospitals to carry out, for the first time, these surgical procedure at a time when patients with kidney failure, other diseases that need a bone marrow transplant or eye problems are demanding access to them.
Sílvia Lutucuta announced the ongoing training of a qualified staff which, according to her, is at its final stage. "We have qualified professionals. But for long time they have not practicing, mainly when it comes to kidney transplant, where we find necessary to start with," she said.
The minister also announced plans for the inauguration, early next year, of Pediatric Dermatological Institute to deal with bone marrow transplant.
The National Assembly also recently approved the Medically Assisted Human Reproduction Law, a growing problem in the country, which affects between 900,000 and one million couples.
