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Guinea Bissau

Our support for the improvement of health and maternal/child services at Bissau and Farim.

Concrete actions in the area

Eni Foundation supports the Ministry of Health in Guinea Bissau in initiatives to improve the health status of the population and health services. Specifically, it supports access to post-operative, intensive care and neonatology services at the Simão Mendes National Hospital in the city of Bissau and primary health care in the administrative sector in the Farim district.

Objectives

With this project, Eni Foundation is promoting access to and use of maternal and child health services, specifically aiming at:

  • improvement of post-operative, intensive care and neonatology services
  • strengthening basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care
  • early active recognition and basic treatment of children with motor disabilities and needs
  • combating and promoting awareness of malnutrition and waterborne diseases.

Duration of the initiative

The project lasts one year and involves capacity building activities and the supply of equipment and consumables to the Simão Mendes National Hospital (Bissau), as well as primary health care in the administrative sector of Farim.

Beneficiaries

The initiative includes outreach activities with a focus on vulnerable groups, mothers, children, and children with disabilities, totalling 70,000 people. With regard to administrative sector support, the project will cover the four health facilities in the Farim district and is aimed at the entire population.