Starting Point

With the set of integrated healthcare duly consolidated and with the broad access to all healthcare centers guaranteed, the requirement to answer  healthcare needs in nonexistent medical specialties in the country was pressing.

The next step was to invest in strengthening the implementation of secondary and tertiary healthcare in the Central Hospital of Sao Tome and Principe – Hospital Dr. Ayres de Menezes. Therefore, a new challenge was embraced: the Health for All – Specialties project which aimed to complement the chain of primary healthcare implemented with specialised assistance of secondary and tertiary healthcare.

Aiming at introducing faster and more adequate solutions to an integral healthcare, reducing the number of medical evacuation cases and promoting the improvement of local expertise, this intervention included:

• the creation and structuring of services;
• the conduction of short term regular missions of Portuguese medical specialists to the country.