Integrar a medicina tradicional para melhorar os cuidados de saúde em Moçambique

Abstract

This work analyzes the National Health System in Mozambique in the period of 1997. Within the National Health System, it identifies the main constraints in the provision of health care. Such constraints are related to the insufficiency of health facilities in Mozambique, which result in observable congestion on a daily basis. On the other hand, health facilities face problems of water and energy supply: the services of maternities and laboratories are insufficient; human resources are also insufficient and in general the south of the country is the most benefited. The official health sector covers a population that has its own cultural values ​​of perception of disease and cure based on local beliefs that are implicit in traditional medicine that, by being integrated into the official health care system, there would be a better provision of health care. for the population. On the other hand, this integration would bring as a benefit, research on the plants used in traditional medicine and would avoid probable mistakes that can happen in traditional medicine. The other benefit that can be obtained from this integration would be in the solution of psychic problems (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)