Committed to achieving universal health coverage by 2030, the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) is strengthening the health system by revising its essential health services package (EHSP), the set of health services deemed essential to meeting the population’s core health needs). To revise the EHSP, the MoHSS needs to determine how many and what types of health care workers (HCWs) are needed to provide these essential health services.

How many public sector health care workers do we have in our country? What level of training do they have? Where are they located? How much are they paid?