We are proud to share recent international attention on Gorongosa’s expanding health work, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Mozambique’s Ministry of Health and the Gorongosa Restoration Project.
This milestone comes as global development outlet Devex published an in-depth feature on Gorongosa’s evolving approach to health care, highlighting plans for a 100-bed public teaching hospital and integrated health campus in rural Gorongosa. The article situates this initiative within Gorongosa’s long-standing commitment to linking conservation, community wellbeing, and sustainable development—an approach increasingly described as One Health, recognising that human health, environmental health, and livelihoods are deeply interconnected.
For communities living around Gorongosa National Park, access to advanced medical care remains a critical challenge. The planned hospital and health campus aim to address gaps that outreach alone cannot—bringing specialised care, emergency services, workforce training, and research closer to the people who need them most. Alongside infrastructure, the project is exploring innovative approaches to health worker training, digital health systems, and climate-smart design, with the ambition that lessons learned in Gorongosa could inform rural health delivery elsewhere in Africa.
As part of this progress, Mozambique’s Ministry of Health led a recent mission to the United States to strengthen partnerships and mobilise support for the hospital and associated research and training centre.
For reference, we are sharing the Devex article here
