The Minister of Health and Social Services has warned that contractors who fail to execute projects on time will be taken to task. Dr Kalumbi Shangula says delays in completing facilities was denying citizens health-care services. Shangula was speaking at the commissioning of a COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Unit at Nkurenkuru. He noted with concern that 13 hospital and clinic projects countrywide remain incomplete or abandoned completely. Among those is the Nkurenkuru and Gcaruha clinics in the Kavango West Region. A new contractor is now on-site at the Nkurenkuru clinic, where construction commenced more than five years ago. Shangula is happy that the 12-bed capacity centre will be used in the provision of health care after the Coronavirus pandemic. He added that construction of the Nkurenkuru District Hospital is earmarked to start as soon as funds become available. The regional leadership, including Governor Sirkka Ausiku, have been calling for the construction to start since the groundbreaking in 2014.