Luanda — ANGOP has learnt that 90 per cent of health professionals, mainly physicians, are working in central hospitals in Luanda City, which shows their unequal distribution.

This information was given by the national director for Public Health, Adelaide de Carvalho, when she was delivering a lecture on the theme "The government's role in guaranteeing qualified staff", in the framework of the regional meeting on haemorrhages.

The official added that the country records a low number of health professionals, moreover, some are also in the private sector and others prefer to work abroad.

According to Adelaide de Carvalho, the number of trained professionals is also not enough to quench the necessities in the sector.

To resolve this situation, the government has been recruiting expatriate physicians, investing in schools and sanitary infrastructures and equipping them.

The government has also defined and reclassified the technical and professional careers and also has been promoting speciality courses and post-graduation degrees.

The government created regional centres to train and specialise midwives, whose first 156 of them have been working in the communities, health centres and central maternity hospitals.

As perspectives for 2009, it is included the opening of more two centres in the provinces of Uige and Huambo that will train other 109 specialised midwives, she revealed.