Luanda - The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, expressed his dissatisfaction with the company linked to the construction of tertiary level hospitals, underway in the country, which is requesting “an additional amount far above” that contained in the contract.
After opening the General Hospital of Viana, named Bispo Emílio de Carvalho, on Friday, João Lourenço said that liked the quality of this work, the equipment installed, adding that it is improving, from unit to unit.
He recalled that hospitals of this magnitude and importance have been being built since 2018, when the program to build modern tertiary-level units began.
The Head of State stated that contracts are to be respected, but with the aforementioned company they are not being respected, not from the point of view of quality or execution deadlines, but because it is requesting additional amounts “that would be enough to build and equipping a new hospital from scratch”.
“It is clear that Angola cannot accept this, as this has not happened to anyone else and will not happen now. We won’t let it,” he assured.
The President stressed that Angola still has many hospitals to build, citing those in Bailundo, Dundo, Malanje, Mavinga and Cazombo as general hospitals, since some of these towns will gain the category of provincial administrative seats, being this is why the Executive is on alert and attentive to the need to defend the country's interests.
“Public money is to be well spent, we have accounts to settle, before our taxpayers, we have to know how to justify the way the money is spent”, he highlighted.
For the Head of State, Angola fortunately is in a market economy, and the options are countless, and “the market will dictate the best options for the units that are yet to be built”.
The General Hospital of Viana Bispo Emílio de Carvalho is located in the Urban district of Zango, municipality of Viana and offers services such as general clinic, cardiology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopedics-traumatology, gynecology-obstetrics, stomatology, urology, general surgery, anesthesiology and oncology, among others. PA/ADR/TED/DOJ
