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The critical care unit, popularly known as the intensive care unit (ICU), is a section of a hospital where special medical equipment and services are provided for patients who are seriously ill.

The number of children between the ages of 5 and 17 working in agriculture has been on the rise globally since 2012. Increasing from 98 million to 108 million children, agriculture accounts for 71% of all child labour.

The Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) is struggling to recover its student debt, which currently stands at a whopping N$2.8 billion. 

Four male learners from Swakopmund Secondary School were yesterday tested for Covid-19 after presenting flu-like symptoms at a local state hospital.

Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila says the budget presented by finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi balances between the need to enable the country to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Council members serving on local public universities should at least possess a minimum master’s degree qualification, information minister Peya Mushelenga proposed in the National Assembly last week. Mushelenga recommended to the minister of higher education, Itah Kandii-Murangi, that the acts governing tertiary institutions should be revisited to provide for appropriate requirements for membership to the councils of the two public institutions. 

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentarian Nico Smit has charged poverty eradication has long been a slogan used by government to rally voters during elections.

OPUWO – The Putuavanga Secondary School in Opuwo last week reopened classes for grade 11 and 12 learners in a bid to save the academic year despite limited resources, including lack of proper sanitation.

“They committed a modern day lynching in broad daylight . . . I can’t stand for that!” 

Digital literacy refers to the ability of users to utilise, access and productively use digital devices such as mobile phones, PCs/laptops and other platforms to share constructive news or events