Ultra Controlo Commissions Complete Medical Gas Infrastructure at Hospital Kilamba Kiaxi, Angola's Maternal and Child Health Centre

The oxygen is running at Hospital Kilamba Kiaxi. And with it, a chapter of Angola's healthcare history has been written.

Ultra Controlo has officially commissioned the complete medical gas infrastructure at the hospital, one of Angola's most critical maternal and child health centres, in a ceremony attended by representatives of MINSA, the Angolan Ministry of Health, the United Nations Development Programme, the Hospital Direction, and Angolan partner CAFN. It was the second commissioning of what will eventually be eight, the mark of a national programme of unprecedented scope that is permanently reshaping how Angola produces, distributes, and guarantees access to medical oxygen across its hospital network.

The project was developed by the United Nations Development Programme for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Angola and is financed by the Global Fund, with a national scope covering 8 hospitals. At Hospital Kilamba Kiaxi, a facility whose entire clinical identity is built around the care of mothers and children, the stakes of that infrastructure are immediate and measurable. Oxygen is not supplemental here. In a neonatal unit, in a labour ward, in a paediatric surgical theatre, it is the difference between survival and irreversible harm. At the centre of the installation is the ULTRAOX PSA oxygen generator, Ultra Controlo's flagship medical oxygen system, which draws ambient air and separates its components through a Pressure Swing Adsorption process to produce medical-grade oxygen at 95% purity, on-site, in real time, without interruption. It runs on an oil-free compressor, monitors CO, CO2, H2O, and all critical gas parameters continuously, operates in fully automatic mode with failsafe redundancy engineered in, and is certified under ISO 13485:2016 and compliant with both European and American Pharmacopeia standards. For a hospital of this nature, it means every clinical area draws from a source that does not run out, does not arrive late, and does not depend on road conditions, import logistics, or the fragile economics of cylinder procurement. The ULTRAOX reduces annual oxygen costs by up to 70% compared to traditional cylinder-based supply, transforming what was once a perpetual operational burden into a permanent infrastructure asset.

Ultra Controlo has officially commissioned the complete medical gas infrastructure at Hospital Kilamba Kiaxi, one of Angola's most important maternal and child health centres, marking the second hospital activated under the national 8-hospital programme developed by the UNDP for the Ministry of Health of Angola and financed by the Global Fund, in the presence of MINSA, the Hospital Direction, and Angolan partner CAFN.

Hospital Kilamba Kiaxi is a maternal and child health centre, and that designation carries the full weight of what was commissioned here. The clinical demands of a facility that delivers babies, cares for newborns in the first hours of their lives, and treats sick children are among the most oxygen-intensive in any hospital network. Neonatal resuscitation requires immediate, uninterrupted oxygen flow. Paediatric anaesthesia demands medical air of the highest purity. Post-operative recovery in a child depends on reliable, precisely regulated vacuum suction. It is precisely in these environments that the failure of cylinder-based supply has historically caused the most irreversible harm, and it is precisely these environments that Ultra Controlo's complete medical gas solution is designed to protect without compromise.

The commissioning placed into full operation three integrated systems working in concert. The ULTRAOX PSA oxygen generation plant anchors the central oxygen supply for the entire facility. The medical air central delivers clean, dry, filtered compressed air across surgical environments, intensive care units, respiratory therapy departments, and every ward that depends on it. The medical vacuum central manages suction across operating theatres, emergency rooms, and recovery areas, regulating vacuum levels at every point of care with consistent, calibrated precision. Connecting all three systems to the hospital is the complete pipeline infrastructure: medical-grade copper tubing, gas outlets at every clinical station, alarm and monitoring panels providing real-time system visibility, flowmeters, pressure regulators, and isolation valves that give the hospital's technical team full command over every cubic metre of gas that moves through the building. The result is not a collection of independent products. It is a single, integrated medical gas network, conceived as one system, built as one system, and designed to function without failure for the life of the hospital.

The commissioning of Hospital Kilamba Kiaxi is the second chapter of a story that will have eight. The national programme advancing across Angola is being executed with a methodology that Ultra Controlo has refined across four decades of deployments on every continent: complete supply, installation, commissioning, technical training for local clinical and engineering teams, and long-term support through UltraCare, the company's 24/7 technical assistance programme that runs every day of the year without exception. Each installation under this programme is also aligned with the UltraGreen Plan, a sustainability framework through which every ULTRAOX system is engineered to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 130 tons per installation annually, ensuring that Angola's infrastructure progress carries no environmental cost.

The partnership behind Hospital Kilamba Kiaxi brings together institutions of different mandates and geographies, united by a shared conviction that autonomous medical oxygen infrastructure is not an aspiration for Angola but a clinical and humanitarian imperative. MINSA sets the national standards and defines the need. The United Nations Development Programme designs and manages the programme structure. The Global Fund provides the financing that makes it possible. CAFN, Ultra Controlo's Angolan partner, provides the local expertise and on-the-ground presence that translates planning into execution. And Ultra Controlo delivers the technology and engineering built on 45 years of global experience and a presence across more than 80 countries. All systems are manufactured and fully tested at the company's own production facilities in Sintra, Portugal, before shipment, so that every component that enters an Angolan hospital has been verified against the standards of ISO 13485:2016 certification before it is ever installed.

In the context of Angola's healthcare history, what happened at Hospital Kilamba Kiaxi is a small but irreversible fact: a maternal and child health centre in Luanda now produces its own medical oxygen, its own medical air, and its own vacuum, permanently and autonomously, without dependence on any external supply chain. The mothers who deliver here, the newborns who take their first breaths here, and the children who recover from surgery here will never know what it cost to build this or what came before it. That is precisely how it should be. Infrastructure that works is invisible. It is simply there, producing, quietly, reliably, every hour of every day. That is what Ultra Controlo builds. And in Angola, in 2026, there are six more hospitals still to come.

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