OCS promotes debate about access to healthcare for LGBTQI+ community and Marginalized Populations
The Citizen Observatory for Health (OCS) will hold, on 13 December, an international conference entitled “Promoting Access to Health for Marginalized Populations and the LGBTQI+ Community.” The event, which is part of the “Empowering the LGBTQ+ Community in Mozambique” project, has the main objective of advocating inclusion in access to health for marginalized groups, by […]
Is it possible for MISAU to achieve certain goals in less than two years, while some indicators have worsened in the last three years?
Introduction The Health Sector in Mozambique presents chronic challenges that include, among others, low access to and quality of health services due to insufficient infrastructure, poorly equipped (equipment and materials), lack of qualified human resources and inefficient public financial management. In fact, according to the IOF 2019/20, about 45% of the population in rural areas […]
Even in Context of Strikes: Government Envisages Fewer Professionals Hiring in Health Sector for 2024
The health sector plans to reduce the number of professionals hired in 2024, at a time when the National Health System (SNS) is struggling with a crisis, characterized by successive stoppages of activities. The strikes by health professionals, through the Medical Association of Mozambique (AMM) and the Association of United and Solidarity Health Professionals of […]
OCS calls for greater cooperation between various players in the National Health System
The Citizen Observatory for Health (OCS) calls for greater cooperation between Civil Society Organizations, the Ministry of Health (OCS), health professionals and cooperation partners in order to resolve the problems that plague the National Health System (SNS), following the threat of a strike by resident doctors at Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique’s largest hospital. Read the […]
In The Context of The Strike: Health Professionals Guarantee Services for Another 15 Days
The Association of United Health Professionals of Mozambique (APSUSM) – which represents nurses, laboratory technicians, drivers and other professionals in the health sector – said on Monday that its members would not resume their strike for the next 15 days, as a way of continuing to prioritize dialogue with the government in order to resolve […]
LGBTQ+ Empowerment Project Impacts Communities
The Citizen Observatory for Health (OCS) has been carrying out a project called “Empowering the LGBTQ+ Community in Mozambique”, with the aim of promoting the inclusion of the key population in civic spaces. The project – implemented in collaboration with the associations Kwaedja, Transformar and Kutchindja, and funded by Love Alliance for a year – […]
As of November 1st: Non-Payment of Overtime Forces HCM Resident Doctors to Stop Activities
The National Health System (SNS) has recently been struggling with a number of problems, ranging from a lack of supplies for proper medical care and medication for users to problems associated with the payment of salaries to health professionals, in the context of the implementation of the Single Salary Table (TSU) in the public administration. […]
According to Experts: Social Pressure and Attachment to Social Media May Lead to Suicide
In the context of public health, suicide has always been a concern for global health systems. Developing as well as developed countries are making efforts to reduce suicide cases, considering the mysteries behind it. The key question is: what are the real reasons behind suicide, a phenomenon that has taken on alarming proportions in recent […]
Low Coverage of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Young People Concerns Civil Society
Mozambique is one of the countries with the highest average annual demographic growth rate, at around 3% per year. This rate, coupled with the large youth population, which also includes adolescents, makes it relevant and propitious to discuss the relevance of the intervention of various players in order to maximize synergies with the aim of […]
User fees contribute only 0.6% to the health budget
The contribution of user fees to the functioning of health facilities in the National Health System (SNS) is very low, at around 0.6% of total public spending, according to unveiled public by the Citizen Observatory for Health (OCS) at the Conference on Access to Health in Mozambique. The event, which took place last week in […]