Comiche was speaking to reporters shortly after visiting the 28 injured people who are still undergoing treatment at Maputo Central Hospital.
Comiche said that health workers had used their skills to transform a situation which had initially semmed chaotic into one where hope had been reborn.
The explosions caused the death of at least 103 people, and 515 others were treated in the capital's health units.
According to hospital administrator, Joao Guimaraes, five of the 28 people still hospitalised are children whose injuries are so serious that they should have been evacuated to South Africa last week.
Unbelievably red tape has intervened to prevent their treatment. According to Guimaraes, the travel documents needed for the children to go to South Africa are still being processed.
"What we could see is that these are adults and children who need support and comforting in order to rebuild their lives and those of their families", said Comiche. "In addition to their injuries, some have lost loved ones, and their houses have been damaged or destroyed".
The mayor said that a comprehensive survey of the damage done during the explosions is still being undertaken by the government's Emergency Operations Centre (CENOE), in partnership with the Engineering Faculty of Maputo's Eduardo Mondlane University.
The city council, Comiche pledged, would provide support in rebuilding the homes damaged or demolished by the projectiles that were flung out of the blazing arsenal.
Meanwhile deliberate disinformation about compensation for the victims continues to appear in some right-wing papers. Thus the latest issue of the Maputo weekly "Zambeze" carried an attack on the government under the headline "There are no funds for monetary compensation".
The article claimed that the victims of the explosions "might not be compensated by the government".
This was published two days after a meeting of the Mozambican cabinet issued a statement making it very clear that the government will not only rebuild all damaged property, but will pay for the education of children of the victims, and will provide invalidity pensions for those maimed for the rest of their lives.
Possibly the article was written before the government statement, but the paper was published two days later. To make such a claim in the headline is to deliberately mislead the paper's readers.
The sole source for the "Zambeze" article is a local Reuters correspondent who, on 27 March, quoted Prime Minister Luisa diogo as saying "There is no way that dead people can be compensated".
From the impossibility of compensating the dead, "Zambeze" leapt to the conclusion that the government did not intend to compensate the living either.
SOURCE: AIM
