• and 73 integrated health centres with a minimum package of activities expanded (CSI
GAWR) which constitute the basic structures of the health system and perform the SONU.
All CSI to PMAE offer obstetric and neonatal basic emergency (SONUB)
• 36 basic hospitals (HB) and a regional military hospital providing the first reference level of
the health system. All HB provide obstetric and neonatal care comprehensive emergency
(SONUC)
• 6 general hospitals including one university hospital (Brazzaville) and a central army
hospital, these hospitals are the third reference level of the health system. They all perform
SONUC;
• 9 specialised institutions: the National Public Health Laboratory (LNSP) the National Blood
Transfusion Centre (CNTS), the Congolese essential generic medicines (COMEG), two
centres of specialised outpatient treatment (2 AIDS outpatient treatment centres, two TB
centres); and two lepers treatment centres;
• and health facilities of the Congolese Armed Forces, which include: 1 General Hospital
(Central Hospital of the Armed Pierre Mobengo in Brazzaville), two district hospitals in
Pointe-Noire and Dolisie, a surgical clinic in Pointe Noire (Ocean clinic), and 10 infirmaries
with an overall capacity of 540 beds, including 300 for the Central Army Hospital. All these
health facilities also receive sick civilians.
The network of health facilities in the private subsector is composed of health care facilities,
laboratories, imaging, and pharmaceutical structures. The table below summarises the
situation of the network of private provision according to data from the health card in 2005.
Table 9: Location of the provision in the private sub-sector in 2005:
Type of
structure
Urban
Polyclinic
3
Clinic
33
Doctor’s surgery 143
Nurse’s surgery 221
Socio Health
43
Centre
Pharmacy
183
Pharmaceutical
22
depot
Biomedical
17
laboratory
Physiotherapy
3
centre
Radiology
1
Centre
Total
669
Source: Health Card 2005
64
Location
Total
Semi urban
0
2
5
33
5
Rural
0
1
1
47
14
3
36
149
301
62
8
105
1
28
192
155
3
0
20
1
0
4
0
0
1
162
92
923