MAPUTO – A five-day online program on training and sharing experience on clinical nursing organized by China’s Sichuan Provincial Commission of Health kicked off in Maputo on Monday.
More than 40 nurses from the Maputo Central Hospital (HCM) are taking part in the program, which includes lectures, seminars, operational training on COVID-19 patients care, infection prevention and control, as well as basic and advanced life support technologies.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, HCM Director Mouzinho Saíde called on the participants to put the training into practice as the country is bracing for a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Since the beginning of the pandemic, with the support of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, we have had the opportunity to attend several training courses that provided us with adequate methods to cope with the pandemic,” Saíde said.
Besides personnel training, China has been supportive in the supply of high-tech medical-surgical equipment, health training equipment, personal protective gear, and other COVID-19 related equipment to the HCM, the largest public hospital in Mozambique, he added.
Saíde underlined the excellent work and collaboration of the Chinese medical team in Mozambique, saying that it demonstrated the sense of fraternity between the two countries.
Elisete Muhate, head nurse at the HCM’s COVID-19 inpatient service and one of the trainees, expressed the hope that through this kind of experience sharing, she and her colleagues will manage to overcome the difficulties they face every day.
“We hope to learn from Chinese doctors and nurses and implement everything we are going to learn here in our workplace,” she said. – Xinhua
Maputo Central Hospital (HCM) Director Mouzinho Saíde addresses the opening ceremony of an online training program offered by Chinese experts, in Mozambique’s capital Maputo on Monday. – Xinhua
