Omaruru District Hospital also joined in celebrating International Nurses Day.

Nurses in the Zambezi Region gathered at the Katima Mulilo open market in celebration of International Nurses Day under the theme, "Our Nurses, Our Future, and Empowered Nurses Save Lives."

Today is International Nurses Day, and the Ministry of Health and Social Services in the Kavango East Region is commemorating the day with a lineup of activities. 

The day started off with a walk through Rundu’s busiest part of town. 

The Kunene Region's vast distances, scattered settlements and difficult terrain have forced health workers to adopt practical measures to reach every child during the polio campaign.

One of the most notable interventions has been the use of helicopters to access remote communities.

Members of Parliament have urged amendments to the Mental Health Bill to address delays from Namibia's shortage of psychiatrists, proposing that other trained health workers conduct assessments.

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.