World Tuberculosis Day Marks Global Efforts to Combat TB

World Tuberculosis Day Marks Global Efforts to Combat TB

World Tuberculosis Day is celebrated to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social, and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. This year, the theme is 'Yes! We can end TB!'. Here is the Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula.

April 11, 2024 40

Namibia

Health ministry conducts ongoing COVID-19 and influenza surveillance activities

The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, said that there has been a rise in respiratory illnesses among children in northern China. According to the ministry, they are actively conducting ongoing COVID-19 and influenza surveillance activities and has not identified an increase in respiratory infections or associated hospitalizations or deaths in Namibia. Here is Dr. Kalumbi Shangula.

December 7, 2023 11

Namibia

Health minister describes the shortage of medical gloves at some hospitals nationwide as a crisis

Health minister Kalumbi Shangula has described the shortage of medical gloves at some hospitals nationwide as a crisis. This comes after some nurses told The Namibian they have been working on patients without protective gloves. In the Zambezi region, nurses and doctors at the Katima Mulilo District Hospital have been operating without medical gloves for the past month, and the health minister confirmed it is a national critical. The Katima […]

November 20, 2023 7