#Gabon: Libreville in top form

 

Already well endowed with advanced services, the capital of Gabon opens new care units and focusing skills.
The offer health improves dramatically in Libreville. Restored in 2012, the General Hospital in the town now has two emergency services (adult and pediatric), five new operating rooms, as well as recovery rooms, sterilization and intensive care. The government is pursuing the implementation of the hospital director of the capital plan, much of which involves a comprehensive redevelopment of the Centre Hospitalier de Libreville (CHL) in University Hospital Centre (CHU).
The main site, in the city center, is now specializing in surgery, while other specialized units of the University Hospital were established in the periphery. A large oncology service is organized in the north of the capital, in the new Angondjé neighborhood, where flags of the Cancer Institute were delivered last year.
Owendo, a southern suburb, welcomes trauma and orthopedics. As for the hospital Ebori Jeanne, passed on by the National Social Security Fund to the Department of Health in 2012 (like Owendo), it was destroyed last year. In its place will rise new buildings pole Maternal and Child Health Hospital, whose work led by the Austrian company Vamed Engineering (industry expert) should be completed by the end of 2015 or early 2016 .
The quality of hospital services had already enriched in Libreville with the opening in late 2005, hospital instruction armed Omar Bongo Ondimba-equipped with the help of the French cooperation. Featuring an advanced technical platform, particularly in orthopedic surgery, the facility can now take care of patients whose condition previously had to escape abroad. Its rates are aligned with those of the public service, and the hospital maintains close relations with the National Health Insurance and Social Security Fund (CNAMGS) relations.

high performance
Finally, inaugurated in 2000 with the support of the former first lady, Edith Lucia
Bongo Ondimba, the polyclinic Rapha-El is the largest institution under agreement by the social security funds. It receives technical assistance from Moroccan military doctors and also features a high-performance plateau, both in laboratories as medical imaging (CT, MRI, column laparoscopy). Radiology is the busiest of the institution, with more than 4,000 consultations per year service.

                                                                                                                           Jeune Afrique 09/09/14