The majority of patients with chronic kidney disease and acute renal failure are forced to travel long distances or rely on private facilities for life-saving dialysis.

The ongoing shortage of medicine in public health facilities has sparked concern from the public, with some patients reportedly having to buy pharmaceuticals themselves.

Members of the National Council (NC) have raised concerns regarding challenges affecting different regions, such as access to health facilities, shortage of medical staff and the need for improved services in rural and remote areas.

The MPs were contributing to the Health and Social Services budget.

Newly elected MPs and deputy ministers used their maiden speeches in the National Council to call for industrial development to address socio-economic challenges, including unemployment, housing shortages, and limited access to healthcare and basic services.

Mwandi Mission General Hospital on the Zambia-Namibia border will be conducting a free series of female pelvic reconstruction surgeries. 

The hospital will be hosting a visiting American gynaecologist who has offered these rather expensive surgeries for free. 

The Swakopmund Constituency Councillor is advocating for the upgrade of the DRC Clinic into a health centre to ease congestion at the Tamariskia Clinic.

The newly elected Swakopmund Constituency Councillor visited state clinics to assess challenges that are hampering the delivery of services.

The people of Onanghulo and Onamukulo Village in the Ohangwena Region will no longer have to walk a long distance to access healthcare, thanks to the opening of the door of the long-awaited Onanghulo Primary Health Care Clinic.

Residents of Kongola in the Zambezi Region said their area has been forgotten with no tangible development, 17 years after it was proclaimed as a settlement.

At a meeting, the Sifanu Sub-Khuta of Kongola appealed to the government to address the delay in development at the settlement.

The Executive Director in the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Ben Nangombe, said plans are ongoing to address inequities and constraints to accessing health facilities.

Also to be reviewed is the conduct of healthcare workers and perceived shortcomings in project management.

The ||Kharas and Hardap regions will soon have an endoscopic campaign.

Speaking to nbc News, the Medical Officer at Keetmanshoop Hospital, Dr. Baku Motinga, said the objective of the campaign is to have a database of gastro and intestinal diseases.