This analysis is the result of a survey to determine how the Government spent the resources made available by cooperation partners and from the State Budget to face the COVID-19 pandemic, during the duration of the state of emergency. The analysis focuses on the health, water and sanitation sectors. For its elaboration, combined methodologies and techniques were adopted, which included the collection of information through documentary research and interviews with relevant entities and personalities.
On the positive side, we highlight the opening of the Ministers of Health and Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Dr. Armindo Tiago and Engineer João Machatine, respectively, who through their respective offices, shared relevant information on the contracts carried out in the respective sectors, including those carried out by its subordinate and supervised institutions, which made it possible to offer a general and informed picture of acquisitions in the sectors object of this analysis.
Analyzing the list of companies benefiting from direct agreements in the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Public Works, there is a tendency to award tenders to the same economic groups. As an example, the former Clinical Director of the Central Hospital of Maputo, Domingos Diogo, by the way one of the most highly rated cardiologists in the country, is a partner in the company Mais Saúde Lda, which invoiced 81,900,000.00 (eighty-one million, nine hundred thousand Meticais) in direct agreement at MISAU. Domingos Diogo is the brother of the former Prime Minister, Luísa Diogo, and the current Secretary of State in Maputo Province, Vitória Diogo.
