Angola’s Minister of Health Luís Gomes Sambo has stressed the importance of co-operating with the Mainland in the area of healthcare, Jornal de Angola reports.

The newspaper quoted Mr Sambo as saying limited access to quality medicine was a major challenge for Africa’s healthcare systems.

Mr Sambo’s comments were made last week at a seminar on Sino-African relations in Shanghai , alongside the 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion, an event jointly organised by the World Health Organization and the Mainland government.