“The exchange of knowledge is the main objective of this project”, Susana Sá, executive manager of PALOP EXPERTSAÚDE, a project by Associação Ensinar Norte in cooperation with Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, told Lusa.
In total, 40 doctors, 40 nurses and 10 diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, from different health units in Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique, will be in Portugal receiving training and sharing experiences.
This program begins today with the arrival in Portugal of four doctors and two nurses from the Manuel Pedro Azancot de Menezes Maternal and Child Hospital, in Angola.
“We are here to learn”, Wanderly António, an Angolan obstetrician, who is part of this first group of professionals, all from the same hospital unit, told Lusa, where “between 70 and 80 births are carried out on average per day”.
The exchange of medical experiences between different countries is also one of the attractive factors for these trainees and trainers.
“This is observational, in-person training, lasting three months, within the scope of the specialty that health professionals select”, says the organization.
Among the differentiating factors of this project, Susana Sá refers to clinical practical training, which will allow trainees to be “the right hand” of their tutors.
“There are 500 hours of training”, adds the manager of this initiative, adding that the project includes that the tutors will later go to African hospitals to accompany the trainees on site for a few days.
The beneficiary hospitals of this initiative, whose candidacy was part of the PARES program – Health Response Support Program in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP), are the Manuel Pedro Azancot de Menezes Maternal and Child Hospital and the Dom CardioPulmonary Diseases Hospital Complex. Alexandre do Nascimento, both in Angola, the Baptista de Sousa Hospital, in Cape Verde, and the Maputo Central Hospital, in Mozambique.
On the Portuguese side, the specialized hospital training program includes the Trofa Saúde group and CESPU, private institutions, and a partnership with four public hospitals: ULS Braga, ULS Tâmega e Sousa, ULS Matosinhos and ULSAAve.
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