{"id":176239,"date":"2024-07-10T01:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-blames-lack-of-fake-teeth-on-procurement-backlog\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T01:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:49:40","slug":"namibia-govt-blames-lack-of-fake-teeth-on-procurement-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-blames-lack-of-fake-teeth-on-procurement-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Blames Lack of Fake Teeth On Procurement Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>The health ministry says the procurement process is leading to the country&#8217;s massive lack of dentures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Executive director of health and social services Ben Nangombe on Thursday told The Namibian: &#8220;We have a N$10-million budget. It is not a matter of resources. If there is any shortage of any items at all, it could either be that the facilities may not have ordered the items from the central medical stalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;It could also be that these facilities may not have verified with other facilities where&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407090215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health ministry says the procurement process is leading to the country&#8217;s massive lack of dentures. Executive director of health and social services Ben Nangombe on Thursday told The Namibian: &#8220;We have a N$10-million budget. It is not a matter of resources. If there is any shortage of any items at all, it could either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,30127,8259,6891,4357,7112,4706,724,257,14537,254,30510],"class_list":["post-176239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backlog","tag-blames","tag-fake","tag-govt","tag-lack","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-procurement","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teeth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}