{"id":240887,"date":"2026-08-11T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n178m-medical-store-project-to-strengthen-medicine-supply\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:00:54","slug":"namibia-n178m-medical-store-project-to-strengthen-medicine-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n178m-medical-store-project-to-strengthen-medicine-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: N$178m Medical Store Project to Strengthen Medicine Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The government is investing nearly N$178 million to expand Namibia&#8217;s medical storage capacity as the Ministry of Health and Social Services continues efforts to address shortages of essential medicines at public health facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Central Procurement Board of Namibia (CPBN) and the Ministry of Health and Social Services signed a N$177.99 million contract for the project yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Following completion of the procurement process, the contract was awarded to New Era Investment (Pty) Ltd JV&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110554.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 government is investing nearly N$178 million to expand Namibia&#8217;s medical storage capacity as the Ministry of Health and Social Services continues efforts to address shortages of essential medicines at public health facilities. The Central Procurement Board of Namibia (CPBN) and the Ministry of Health and Social Services signed a N$177.99 million contract for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7417,7449,55124,4706,724,257,6504,254,17887,6433,5236],"class_list":["post-240887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-medical","tag-medicine","tag-n178m","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-south-africa-today","tag-store","tag-strengthen","tag-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240887","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=240887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}