According to the head of the Institutional Communication and Press Directorate of the National Police, Commissioner Orlando Bernardo, the police continue to have great difficulties regarding traffic accidents, despite the large prevention campaigns.
"It remains one of the big problems, citizens have to do their part, have to collaborate, since police forces have been appealing to citizens and have been campaigning a major road safety campaign, especially at these times," comissioner said.
Orlando Bernardo also said that police will continue to take action to mitigate these traffic accidents, "using breathalyzers to persuade citizens to choose between driving or drinking."
In addition to the traffic accidents, the police highlighted the arrest of 110 citizens suspected of committing various crimes, including the voluntary murder of a 21-year-old girl following a disagreement at a party on Mussulo Island.
"She was struck with a knife in the chest, assisted by the Multiperfil clinic and eventually succumbed. Due diligence allowed the detention of five suspects between 23 and 25 years old, who participated in the feud and one of whom met with bloodstained shorts," he explained.
The police official also pointed out that "the voluntary murder, using a screwdriver, with five detainees, due to disagreement in a conviviality, in the province of Malanje."
With regard to hospital occurrences, Health Minister, Sílvia Lutucuta, said at the end of a round she made on Wednesday to five of the main hospitals in Luanda, which were treated in the previous 24 hours 3,921 patients.
"A total of 3,921 patients were admitted to our hospital units and about 380 patients were hospitalized. Most of them were aggressions, traumatic accidents and then there is a very important component here that is the excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages".
Hospital units also received medical cases, including diseases such as malaria, high blood pressure and diabetes.
"Many of these illnesses are over-compensated for the holiday season, but the situation is under control. Teams are motivated, at their place of work to do their best, the technical means for diagnosis and treatment are also available", said the minister.
