{"id":206722,"date":"2025-09-10T18:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cutting-out-middlemen-could-save-n221-million-luvindao\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:21:50","slug":"namibia-cutting-out-middlemen-could-save-n221-million-luvindao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cutting-out-middlemen-could-save-n221-million-luvindao\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Cutting Out Middlemen Could Save N$221 Million &#8211; Luvindao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>The Ministry of Health and Social Services says it could potentially save more than N$221 million by cutting out middlemen and buying essential medicines and clinical supplies directly from international manufacturers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Health minister Esperance Luvindao announced this during a press briefing on Namibia&#8217;s pharmaceuticals situation yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The minister has heeded the call of president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah when she vowed two months ago that Namibia would soon buy pharmaceuticals and medical&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509100513.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 Ministry of Health and Social Services says it could potentially save more than N$221 million by cutting out middlemen and buying essential medicines and clinical supplies directly from international manufacturers. Health minister Esperance Luvindao announced this during a press briefing on Namibia&#8217;s pharmaceuticals situation yesterday. The minister has heeded the call of president Netumbo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206723,"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":[258,256,15309,51014,42609,5118,52309,4706,724,257,7301,254],"class_list":["post-206722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cutting","tag-luvindao","tag-middlemen","tag-million","tag-n221","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-save","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\/206722","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=206722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}