angola: 131 Children Die in Hospital
02.10.2003
About 131 children died in the paediatric hospital of Ndalatando in northern Kwanza-Norte province over the first six months of this year due to various diseases. This was said by the hospital clinic director, Celestino Teixeira, who added that 65 died from malaria, 35 from respiratory infections and acute diarrhoeas while another 30 died of other diseases.