{"id":192558,"date":"2025-03-01T06:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T04:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cabinet-approves-universal-health-cover-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T04:31:45","slug":"namibia-cabinet-approves-universal-health-cover-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cabinet-approves-universal-health-cover-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Cabinet Approves Universal Health Cover Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The cabinet has approved a universal health cover policy to ensure all citizens can access healthcare services without financial hardship, an official said this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Speaking at a media conference to announce the second set of cabinet decisions for 2025, the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Emma Theofelus said the policy will help ensure healthcare access for all Namibians at all times and in all parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;Cabinet has directed an inter-ministerial committee, led&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280438.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 cabinet has approved a universal health cover policy to ensure all citizens can access healthcare services without financial hardship, an official said this week. Speaking at a media conference to announce the second set of cabinet decisions for 2025, the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Emma Theofelus said the policy will help ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192559,"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":[258,256,8326,6467,7514,5731,4706,724,257,6470,254,12369],"class_list":["post-192558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-cabinet","tag-cover","tag-health","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-universal"],"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\/192558","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=192558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}