MoHSS to recruit thousands of people in the next five years

Erasmus Shalihaxwe As part of expanding Universal Health Care, the Ministry of Health and Social Services plans to recruit a total number of 6 186 new staff members over a period of five years. The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Kalumbi Shangula, announced this in the National Assembly last week. Shangula was responding to questions posed to him by Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani, who wanted to know the current status quo with regard to Namibia’s Universal Health Coverage policy framework. The minister said that as a Member State of the World Health Organisation, and having subscribed…