- Maputo Private Hospital
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Maputo Private Hospital is a private hospital being built in Maputo. It will cost 16 million US dollars to complete and it is now scheduled for completion by 2011. Initially, the hospital will have 100 beds, but will expand to 120 and later, depending on demand, to 220. The partners in the Maputo Private Hospital (MPH) are the South African company Lenmed Health, with 60 per cent of the capital, and the Mozambican group Invalco, with 40 per cent.Background
A major problem in Mozambique is the lack of international level medical facilities. For many years, health, especially major operations, were impossible to perform. As such, large sums of money leave the country annually as health care is sought outside of Mozambican borders, primarily in neighboring South Africa[1] . Major health care providers, based in South Africa, had previously neglected Mozambique as patients travelled to them.
The hospital has been planned since 2003 but permission was only granted recently by the government.
The new hospital will offer surgical, orthopedic, obstetric, paediatric and gynaecological services. It will have its own maternity ward, intensive care unit, pharmacy and even a morgue. In the future a medical faculty, or a nursing school will be appended, in order to assist the government in the training of human resources.MPH will recruit staff locally and abroad - but, unlike the private clinics, it will demand that its staff are full time, meaning that it will not be possible for a doctor to work partly in the national health service, and partly in the MPH.[2]
According to reports in the South African press, funding is being procured from Scandinavian banks, and from South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation, while General Electric is to provide the equipment and consultancy services.
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