In Angola there are 2.48 doctors per 10 thousand inhabitants.

Angola has only 2.48 doctors per 10,000 inhabitants, which is below the density recommended by the World Health Organization (ten doctors per 10,000 inhabitants).

The data is contained in the latest Angolan Health Yearbook for 2021, which Lusa has seen, according to which doctors are mainly concentrated in the public sector.

There are also 16.45 nurses and 3.91 general practitioners per 10,000 residents, the document says.

The Angolan health sector comprises 3,162 institutions, including 13 national hospitals, 32 specialized, 18 general, 167 municipal and 105 mother and child centers, as well as 3,768 private health institutions, serving a population of over 32 million inhabitants, characterized by a high birth rate and high mortality.

Of the 34,610,371 consultations conducted – 6,056,130 more than the previous year – 14,082,949 were conducted in hospitals and the rest in health centres and posts, with pediatric and medical specialties being the most in demand.

A total of 1,028,748 patients were admitted to hospitals, representing 3.3 hospitalizations per 100 inhabitants, which is 25,223 more than in the same period last year, with the largest number of hospitalizations occurring in pediatric and obstetric specialties.

National hospitals admitted 140,306 patients, 32,871 more than the previous year, with the same specialties recording the highest number of admissions, with patients staying in hospitals for an average of five days.

On average, five patients died for every 100 discharged from hospital.

Institutional mortality from notifiable diseases was 100.48 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, with the main causes of death being malaria, severe malnutrition and severe pneumonia in children under five, accounting for 52% of the total deaths.