Abstract:

Background: There are various types of medical board and each board has different and specific function. Medical Board of Mozambique, which called junta Medico( in protégées)/ joint medical report, is an organ of the Ministry of Health of Mozambique. It corrects decision taken by health technicians and other level of medical professionals regarding the capacity of work of different categories of workers of Government and nongovernment organizations. There was no single study carried out on this subject neither in Mozambique nor another country. There were needing to see the various factors responsible for requesting Medical board for evolution a change to moderate categories of work, incapacity to work till recovery, evolution for retirement, evaluation to start work after recovery from diseases, evolution to justify absenteeism after long sick leave, evolution to send for treatment to super specialty hospital, to transfer the work place near the hospital for a disease has associated, transfer to further treatment of hospital in the country or out of the country

Methods: There were taken randomly 44 patients, those got evaluated their health status by physician on request of the Medical Board of province of Nampula to take decisions. Patients evaluated by OPD by taking medical history ,physical examination, investigation necessary for diagnosis, finally writing medical reports in the format provided by the Ministry of Health Mozambique to present back to Medical board.

Results: There were found the commonest age group appeal to the medical board for various purposes; age 41-60, predominant of the male sex, urban population group, professor highly prevalent ,HIV were most common cause of appeal from. FOR A CHANGE FROM NORMAL CAPACITY OF WORK TO MODERATE WORK -25 % work in relation to HIV and hypertension with CVA 2. EVALUTION OF JUSTIFICATION OF ABSENT LONG TERM PERIOD OF THEIR SERVICES WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION -22.7%.

Conclusions: There were found from cause of appeal to the medical board , commonest among HIV diseases, change moderate category of work and unjustified sick leaves.

Keywords:-ADSE the General Directorate of Social Protection to Employees and Agents of Public Administration, ID , Identification, CBC Complete blood count, VDRL Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, PSA Prostate-specific antigen,

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