Luanda - The reduction of maternal mortality and  HIV/ Aids infections from mother to child during childbirth, is a priority of health authorities in the country, regarding the health care of women.

 
This was said to ANGOP on Wednesday, by the head of the public health department of Luanda, Isilda Neves, on the sidelines of a conference in the ambit of African Women’s Day, to be marked on July 31.

According to her, to achieve this objective, it is needed to increase the number of birth delivery at the maternity hospitals and reduce the distance of specialised services of households.
 
 
According to Isilda Neves, it is intended to assure for the women a safe birth delivery, a healthy maternal life and protect children from HIV/Aids infections, through the vertical transmission cut process.

Another strategy is to increase family planning coverage so as to encourage pregnant women to provide greater spacing between pregnancies and recover from childbirth and properly breastfeed her baby.

According to the physician, the construction works of five specialised hospitals are under conclusion in the districts of Viana, Sambizanga, Cazenga and Futungo ward.

  
To her, the mortality rate is still high in the country, which is being caused by haemorrhage, hypertensive diseases, infections and caesarean birth. 

 
The conference, which was organised by the ruling party’s female wing (OMA) and the Physicians Committee of the MPLA party, discussed the theme “Women's work in post-independence”, whose workshop was lectured by the minister of Family and Women Promotion, Genoveva Lino.