Princess Diana — and the son who came to see
In 1997, Princess Diana walked through a minefield in Huambo, drawing the world's attention to the victims of anti-personnel mines. The Centre bears her name.
On 27 September 2019, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, visited the Centre named after his mother.
Today the Centre provides rehabilitation and orthotic-prosthetic care to people with disabilities across the province.
Prince Harry's visit to the Centre · 27 September 2019
The Princesa Diana Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre, established under Presidential Legislative Decree no. 2/20 of 19 February, is a public legal entity with administrative, financial and asset autonomy, holding all the rights and obligations needed to carry out its remit.
The CMRFPD is a secondary-level hospital specialising in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, part of the provincial hospital network and of the National Health System. It is dedicated to providing health care to people with disabilities, and not only to them.
It is equipped with modern technology, notably for video conferencing as part of the exchange of experience with institutions abroad, and has a library — placing Trust, Accessibility and Innovation at the forefront of Medicine and Physical Rehabilitation.
It provides specialised health services with competence, excellence and rigour. It fosters pre- and post-graduate training and research, always respecting the principle of humanised care, and promoting the pride, satisfaction and sense of belonging of all its staff.
Mission and Vision
Mission
To provide quality health services with competence, excellence and rigour; to foster pre- and post-graduate training and research; always respecting the principle of humanised care and promoting the pride, satisfaction and sense of belonging of all its staff and of those it serves.
Vision
- To be an example and a national reference in specialised health care, with sustainable growth, commitment, a readiness to change and to stand apart, and the ambition to create value for its patients and their communities.
Values and Objectives
Values
- Humanised and personalised care
- Respect for sociocultural and political differences
- Recognition, training and development of our people
- Prompt, clear and accurate communication
- Encouragement of teaching and research
- Professional ethics and deontology
- Respect for the Centre's image and history
- Multidisciplinary and multi-professional teamwork
- Care for public property
- Punctuality and attendance
- Ecology and sustainability
Objectives
- To promote action towards the full rehabilitation — sensory and motor — of people with disabilities, and their reintegration into society
- To provide patients with services that allow them to recover under the best possible conditions
- To take part in drawing up general plans for the prevention of severely disabling conditions
- To provide social, psychological and human support to patients and their families whenever this is essential to rehabilitation
- To run health education campaigns for patients and their families
- To ensure the continuing training and specialisation of its staff
- To take part in health activities in its area, in line with provincial health objectives and plans
- To promote exchange with institutions carrying out similar and related work
Leadership
Who leads CMRFPD
Past Directors
Who has led the Centre since 1984
- 1984 – 1992Salomão Capungue
- 1992 – 1993Julino Delfino
- 1994 – 2001Gaspar Agostinho
- 2001 – 2012José Tchiyoca
- 2012 – 2018Daniel Eduardo Panzo Tove
- 2018 – 2021Fernando Ferreira Vicente
- 2021 – presentSabino Colino R. Adão