The National Council Standing Committee on Health, Social Welfare and Labour Affairs has commenced an investigative visit to selected schools in the Otjozondjupa Region.

The purpose is to assess the use of hubbly bubbly and other tobacco-related products among learners and their impact on their health.

A local business owner from the Kavango regions has fumigated the Katjinakatji Combined School's hostel kitchen in the Kavango West Region to eliminate a cockroach infestation.

The Ministry of Health and Social Services has responded to the incident that took place at Ndama Clinic in Rundu, where a grade one learner was refused treatment because the child did not come with a piece of paper that would temporarily serve as a health passport.