CPLP supports Timor-Leste in the Health Area
The Vice-Minister of Health, Madalena Hanjan, visited Portugal recently for several meetings, one of which with the CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries), within the scope of the Strategic Plan of Cooperation in Health.
One of the objectives reaffirmed in this meeting, was the continuation of the promotion of the Portuguese language in the health services of the CPLP countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe and Timor-Leste).
“The Portuguese Government and the CPLP are going to help translate our system SISca – Integrated Service of Community Health into Portuguese”, informed Madalena Hanjan.
It was also decided to create a team to study the best way of promoting the human resources training in the Timor-Leste health area, through Portugal. “For example, Cape Verde, Angola e São Tomé e Principe human resources were trained in Lisbon. Timor is far away from Portugal, so what we are going to do is mobilize Portuguese – nurses and specialized doctors – to come and work here so we can learn from these experts from Portugal, here in Timor-Leste” he added.
Besides the language and the human resources, infra-structures are also going to be a cooperation target. In this recent visit to Portugal, the Vice-Minister of Health visited hospital installations “for us to acquire the capacity of doing good viability studies with the technicians and the engineers. We have already marked our strategic plan for 2020. We plan to construct a more complete palliative care hospital. To construct this hospital we need to have a good construction plan but also a working plan. The hospital needs qualified human resources and to have a hospital with more than three hundred beds, with high technology and several specialities, we have to have more people with skills and experience to help us. This is why we have made these preliminary studies in Lisbon”.
From the meeting with the Portuguese High Commissioner for Health, Madalena Hanjan highlighted the praise made by Maria do Céu Machado: “because we have already contributed with 21 thousand euros from our budget for the CPLP Secretary budget. Other nations, like Portugal or Brazil contributed with 100 thousand euros, but Timor-Leste’s contribution was much appreciated because we are a new nation, but have already contributed”.
