Luanda - Angolan Health minister, José Van-Dúnem, said Friday in Kampala, Uganda, that the country is engaged, at the moment, in the improvement of maternal assistance by intervening in creation of birth rooms, in the big cities.

According to the official, these conditions will enable the normal births to be performed in the birth rooms, whereas the complicated cases are sent to the maternities.

The minister spoke of the implementation, in the country's inland, of the training action programmes, where there are neither birth rooms nor maternities.

Other measures taken by the Angolan government include supplying of medicines to pregnant women and boost the HIV/AIDS test and counselling.