{"id":205950,"date":"2025-08-31T05:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-erongo-healthcare-system-grapples-with-resource-shortages\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T05:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:55:55","slug":"namibia-erongo-healthcare-system-grapples-with-resource-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-erongo-healthcare-system-grapples-with-resource-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Erongo Healthcare System Grapples With Resource Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Healthcare workers in the Erongo region continue to face a lack of resources and severe understaffing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This was one of the key issues raised at a stakeholder engagement meeting on the state of healthcare services at Swakopmund on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">At the meeting, the Society for Family Health shared data they collected through interviews with the community members making use of various clinics in the region. SFH community-led monitoring liaison officer Basson Haakuria highlighted the shortage of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290024.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>Healthcare workers in the Erongo region continue to face a lack of resources and severe understaffing. This was one of the key issues raised at a stakeholder engagement meeting on the state of healthcare services at Swakopmund on Thursday. At the meeting, the Society for Family Health shared data they collected through interviews with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205951,"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":[258,256,8941,10399,12370,4706,724,257,7256,18813,254,7232],"class_list":["post-205950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-erongo","tag-grapples","tag-healthcare","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-resource","tag-shortages","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system"],"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\/205950","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=205950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}