The Minister of Health and Social Services, Esperance Luvindao, has stated that Namibia's public health workers are the second-highest paid in the SADC region.

The Zambezi Health Directorate has received four ambulances, a critical upgrade to emergency services where communities have long struggled with limited medical transport options.

For over a decade, the hospital relied on a single ageing ambulance to serve a region with widespread medical needs.

Residents of Oshikunde's Onamafila village and the surrounding areas are calling for urgent action as their recently constructed primary health care clinic remains closed more than a year after completion.

At Grünau, a small, quiet settlement in southern Namibia, a desperate family faces a battle for the life of their little girl. 

Catherine, just 18 months old, has a hydrocephalus condition, which is characterised by a buildup of fluid in the brain.