{"id":195273,"date":"2025-04-03T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-senior-officials-to-use-state-hospitals-from-2026-ngurare-backs-presidential-directive\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:45:25","slug":"namibia-senior-officials-to-use-state-hospitals-from-2026-ngurare-backs-presidential-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-senior-officials-to-use-state-hospitals-from-2026-ngurare-backs-presidential-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Senior Officials to Use State Hospitals From 2026 &#8211; Ngurare Backs Presidential Directive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Prime minister Elijah Ngurare says the government will be implementing a presidential directive that will urge all senior government officials to use state healthcare facilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) yesterday reported that president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has issued a directive to all senior state employees under the Public Service Medical Aid Scheme (Psemas) to use public healthcare facilities from April 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Although the details of the plan are sketchy, Ngurare yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504030032.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>Prime minister Elijah Ngurare says the government will be implementing a presidential directive that will urge all senior government officials to use state healthcare facilities. The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) yesterday reported that president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has issued a directive to all senior state employees under the Public Service Medical Aid Scheme (Psemas) to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7102,9137,4993,4706,724,257,51033,6651,6438,6468,254,6017],"class_list":["post-195273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-directive","tag-hospitals","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ngurare","tag-officials","tag-presidential","tag-senior","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/195273","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=195273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}