The government wants to pay a private hospital to host surgeries on state patients, despite concerns from medical doctors that the state’s own 20 theatres in Windhoek are underutilised because of a lack of medication. The arrangement is mapped out in a concept note dated 24 April, drawn up by the health ministry, meant to clear around 9 600 elective surgical backlogs at Katutura Intermediate and Windhoek Central hospitals. The document, seen by …
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