There is an urgent need for community health workers to be deployed to Anichab, a small settlement in the Erongo Region, and to its surrounding farms.
There is only one health worker at present, covering over 10 villages.
Health workers from the Rundu Intermediate Hospital, accompanied by students from the health sector, marched through Rundu's CBD in commemoration of World Mental Health Day.
For Africa to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, it will require an additional 1.8 million health workers.
However, it is projected that the continent will have a critical shortage of a health workforce of about 6.1 million by 2030.
Africa has a shortage of 5.3 million health workers.
This was revealed by the Communication Officer of the World Health Organisation's Africa Regional Office, Marie France Uwase, at a media briefing on the preparations for the upcoming First Africa Health Workforce Investment Forum next week.
Healthworkers at the maternity wing at Rundu's Intermediary Hospital have shown off a premature-born baby who defied all odds and is now 1 and a half years old.
Baby Peligrine Triumph Ndara weighed 800 grammes, hardly the size of the hand of an adult person, when she was born on August 2, 2022.
Outgoing representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to Namibia, Dr. Charles Sagoe-Moses, has emphasised the ongoing need to further strengthen investments in skilled and community health workers.
