Landlord locks ministry out over alleged unpaid rent
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Medical supplies meant for patients in Ncamagoro, Kavango West, were reportedly locked inside a rented building in Rundu on Wednesday after the landlord allegedly shut the facility in protest of three months of unpaid rent by the health ministry.
Officials from the primary healthcare directorate, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the building was rented to store medication for the area.
However, Kavango West health director Fransiska Hamutenya said she had not been informed of the matter.
“I’m not aware. What I know is that we are renting, and usually we pay. We have been renting since 2022 and this has never happened,” she said in a telephone interview.
Hamutenya said she would urgently make efforts to establish the facts.
- Phillipus Josef
Officials from the primary healthcare directorate, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the building was rented to store medication for the area.
However, Kavango West health director Fransiska Hamutenya said she had not been informed of the matter.
“I’m not aware. What I know is that we are renting, and usually we pay. We have been renting since 2022 and this has never happened,” she said in a telephone interview.
Hamutenya said she would urgently make efforts to establish the facts.
- Phillipus Josef
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