{"id":226104,"date":"2026-03-05T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-blood-banks-in-kharas-and-hardap-regions-mp\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:20:21","slug":"namibia-no-blood-banks-in-kharas-and-hardap-regions-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-blood-banks-in-kharas-and-hardap-regions-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: No Blood Banks in ||kharas and Hardap Regions &#8211; MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Winnie Moongo says there are no blood banks in the ||Kharas and Hardap regions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">She revealed this in the National Assembly on Wednesday while posing questions to minister of health and social services Esperance Luvindao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;There are no blood banks in the ||Kharas and Hardap regions. And blood transfusions are limited to district hospitals, leaving people in rural and remote areas without timely access to life-saving blood,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050127.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>Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Winnie Moongo says there are no blood banks in the ||Kharas and Hardap regions. She revealed this in the National Assembly on Wednesday while posing questions to minister of health and social services Esperance Luvindao. &#8220;There are no blood banks in the ||Kharas and Hardap regions. And blood transfusions are limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226105,"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":[258,256,6865,8309,25853,17172,4706,724,257,6897,254],"class_list":["post-226104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banks","tag-blood","tag-hardap","tag-kharas","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-regions","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\/226104","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=226104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}