Luanda – Angolan president João Lourenço on Tuesday in Luanda said the future Institute of Legal Medicine to be built in the country’s capital will be a forensic unit focused on scientific training.

Speaking to the press at the end of a field trip, Lourenço said the government plans to set up a training unit to meet the needs of the police, since the premises of the legal medicine will be useful whenever there are cases of deaths with criminal indications.

However, the President said, "judging by the number of drawers that the infrastructure will have, around 200, it will certainly also end up performing the function of a morgue, given the conditions in which the municipal morgues still find themselves".

João Lourenço defended the need to speed up the pace of the construction work, having received assurances from the contractor that as soon as the financial issue is resolved, it could be completed within a year.

Accompanied by the Secretary of State for Health, Leonardo Edurado, the governor of Luanda, Manuel Homem, among others, the statesman toured the different areas of the project, which is around 14 percent complete. MR/SC/AMP