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t. e. The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services was established at Namibian independence in 1990. The first Namibian health and social services minister was Nickey Iyambo. The current minister is Kalumbi Shangula, former chief of medical services at the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN). [1]
Authority and service delivery are divided between the national Department of Health, provincial health departments, and municipal health departments. [1] In 2017, South Africa spent 8.1% of GDP on health care, or US$499.2 per capita. Of that, approximately 42% was government expenditure. [2] About 79% of doctors work in the private sector. [3]
Namibia is an upper-middle-income country. [2] It has a dual system of public (serving 83% of the population) and private (17%) health care providers. [3] In the financial year 2020, Government and private health expenditure combined accounted for 8.9% of the country's Gross Domestic Product, [4] compared to the world average of the 10% of GDP ...
Hospitals in Namibia. Onandjokwe State Hospital, until 2016 Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital, is the oldest hospital in the northern part of Namibia. It was built in 1911 by the Finnish Missionary Society under the leadership of Selma Rainio. The hospital was operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) via Lutheran Medical ...
Namibia–South Africa relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Namibia and South Africa.South Africa (then part of the British Empire as the Union of South Africa) captured the area now known as Namibia from Germany during World War I and governed it, by the name 'South West Africa', until 1990, when the country gained independence under the name 'Namibia'.
Social welfare programmes have a long history in South Africa. [3] The earliest form of social welfare programme in South Africa is the poor relief distributed by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in 1657. [4] The institutionalised social welfare system was established after the British occupied the Cape Colony in ...
When looking at the right to health with respect to children, South Africa achieves 89.1% of what is expected based on its current income. [3] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 63.8% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. [4] South Africa falls into the "very bad ...
SWAPO. Occupation. Medical physician, politician. Richard Nchabi Kamwi (born 3 June 1950 in Ioma, Zambezi Region) is a Namibian medical physician and politician. [1] A member of the National Assembly with the South West Africa People's Organization since 1999, Kamwi was the Minister of Health and Social Services from March 2005 to 2015. [2]