Nagoya -The Japanese multinational Toyota Tsusho Corporation has donated an off-road Toyota vehicle, equipped with a vaccine refrigeration system to facilitate the transportation of vaccines to the Angolan population residing in areas of difficult access.
The vehicle was delivered on the basis of the memo signed between Angola’s Health Ministry and the Toyota Tsusho Toyota, in a ceremony witnessed by the President of Angola, João Lourenço, to whom the key of the vehicle was handed over.
According to the Health minister, Silvia Lutucuta, the vehicle - which is capable of storing a large capacity of vaccines at temperatures of two to eight degrees - is already certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international bodies linked to the production and conservation of vaccines.
The minister, who is part of the presidential delegation in Japan, said more resources of this kind are expected to be acquired in the near future and made available to the country's provinces.
Support from Japan
Bilateral cooperation began in 1988 as Emergency Aid, through UNICEF.
After the end of the war in Angola in 2002, Japan began to provide assistance in the demining and social reintegration of ex-soldiers and refugees.
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