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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-08-08
Learner dies after being denied treatment
MPUNGU - A Grade eight pupil at the Himarwa Ifete Secondary School in the western Kavango died a day after she was allegedly refused treatment because she did not have a health passport.
The deceased has been identified as 17-year-old Agnes Hausiku, a resident of the Sikarosompo village in the Mpungu Constituency.
Her next of kin have been informed.
Hausiku and a friend, Hellen Kamanya, walked to the Mpungu Clinic, which is two kilometres from her school, after lessons on Monday afternoon to seek medical treatment as they both were not feeling well.
The two learners both did not have health passports, and upon arrival at the health centre, they were given temporary papers at the reception, which were not stamped.
According to Kamanya, she entered the screening room, where a registered nurse there allegedly told her that she was not going to attend to patients who do not have their health passports with them.
That nurse’s name has not yet been established.
Kamanya and Hausiku then went back to the school without receiving any treatment for an unidentified illness.
Their teacher Lasco Sachuma said yesterday that the deceased never got better since Monday, and collapsed on Tuesday evening while studying.
Hausiku was struggling to breathe when she was rushed to the same health centre, but was pronounced dead upon her arrival there.
Efforts to get comment from Mpungu Circuit Inspector Mathews Kalihonda proved futile as his mobile phone remained off on Wednesday.
Contacted for comment yesterday, the Chief Medical Officer for the Kavango Region, Dr Harrison Wambugu, said he had not yet received the incident report, but promised to enquire about it.
Meanwhile, the Medical Superintendent of the Rundu Intermediate Hospital, Dr Juri Yangazov, said the ministry’s health policy is clear that if a patient does not have a health passport, he or she should be provided with a temporary one.
“That was absolutely wrong of the nurse to refuse them treatment. They should have provided the patients with a temporary one, and attend to the patient,” said Yangazov.
– Nampa
The deceased has been identified as 17-year-old Agnes Hausiku, a resident of the Sikarosompo village in the Mpungu Constituency.
Her next of kin have been informed.
Hausiku and a friend, Hellen Kamanya, walked to the Mpungu Clinic, which is two kilometres from her school, after lessons on Monday afternoon to seek medical treatment as they both were not feeling well.
The two learners both did not have health passports, and upon arrival at the health centre, they were given temporary papers at the reception, which were not stamped.
According to Kamanya, she entered the screening room, where a registered nurse there allegedly told her that she was not going to attend to patients who do not have their health passports with them.
That nurse’s name has not yet been established.
Kamanya and Hausiku then went back to the school without receiving any treatment for an unidentified illness.
Their teacher Lasco Sachuma said yesterday that the deceased never got better since Monday, and collapsed on Tuesday evening while studying.
Hausiku was struggling to breathe when she was rushed to the same health centre, but was pronounced dead upon her arrival there.
Efforts to get comment from Mpungu Circuit Inspector Mathews Kalihonda proved futile as his mobile phone remained off on Wednesday.
Contacted for comment yesterday, the Chief Medical Officer for the Kavango Region, Dr Harrison Wambugu, said he had not yet received the incident report, but promised to enquire about it.
Meanwhile, the Medical Superintendent of the Rundu Intermediate Hospital, Dr Juri Yangazov, said the ministry’s health policy is clear that if a patient does not have a health passport, he or she should be provided with a temporary one.
“That was absolutely wrong of the nurse to refuse them treatment. They should have provided the patients with a temporary one, and attend to the patient,” said Yangazov.
– Nampa
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