{"id":206546,"date":"2025-09-08T18:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-deputy-health-executive-director-calls-for-joint-efforts-in-preventing-cancer\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:15:57","slug":"namibia-deputy-health-executive-director-calls-for-joint-efforts-in-preventing-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-deputy-health-executive-director-calls-for-joint-efforts-in-preventing-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Deputy Health Executive Director Calls for Joint Efforts in Preventing Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Deputy executive director of health and social services Theo-Ben Kandetu has called for joint efforts in preventing cancer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He made this call during the World Radiotherapy Awareness Day event held at Windhoek Central Hospital on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">This day was officially observed for the first time on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;I also call for closer partnerships and collaboration between the private and public health sectors in the fight against cancer,&#8221; Kandetu said while speaking on behalf of minister of health and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509080068.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>Deputy executive director of health and social services Theo-Ben Kandetu has called for joint efforts in preventing cancer. He made this call during the World Radiotherapy Awareness Day event held at Windhoek Central Hospital on Saturday. This day was officially observed for the first time on Sunday. &#8220;I also call for closer partnerships and collaboration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206547,"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":[258,256,6137,6808,6012,400,6357,7631,5731,6984,4706,724,257,14387,254],"class_list":["post-206546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-cancer","tag-deputy","tag-director","tag-efforts","tag-executive","tag-health","tag-joint","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-preventing","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/206546","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=206546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}