{"id":193059,"date":"2025-03-07T18:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-health-ministry-alarmed-by-service-disruption-at-mariental-hospital\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:51:42","slug":"namibia-health-ministry-alarmed-by-service-disruption-at-mariental-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-health-ministry-alarmed-by-service-disruption-at-mariental-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Health Ministry Alarmed By Service Disruption At Mariental Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>The executive director of the ministry of health and social services, Ben Nangombe, on Wednesday expressed discontent with the quality of care provided at the Mariental state hospital in the Hardap region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">His remarks were made in response to a video circulated on social media on Tuesday, showing what appears to be a disruption of services at the Mariental District Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The recording showed an abandoned nursing station, while several patients waited without being attended to by healthcare&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070304.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 executive director of the ministry of health and social services, Ben Nangombe, on Wednesday expressed discontent with the quality of care provided at the Mariental state hospital in the Hardap region. His remarks were made in response to a video circulated on social media on Tuesday, showing what appears to be a disruption of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193060,"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":[258,256,8834,23775,5731,6362,23797,6857,4706,724,257,5188,254],"class_list":["post-193059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarmed","tag-disruption","tag-health","tag-hospital","tag-mariental","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/193059","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=193059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}