DIRECTOR: Ms. B. Katjivena
P.O. Box 238
Mariental
Tel: +264-63-245527
Fax: + 264-63-242727
E-mail: director.hard@mweb.com.na

About the region
Hardap region is situated in the southern part of the country bordering Karas region in the south, Khomas, Omaheke and Erongo in the north. The catchment area is 109 651 110 382 sq.km. The total population is 68,659 (census 2001 with a yearly national growth rate of 0.3 %)

Population per age group:
Under 1 year: 2060
Under 5 year: 10299
Women of childbearing age (15-49) 10478
Aged people (60 and above) 4737
Disabled people: 2128 (3.09%)

The hottest months in the southern part of the country are January and February with average daytime temperatures between 9 ºC and 30 ºC. During winter, the temperature is between – 6 ºC and 10 ºC at night and during daytime 20 ºC. Overall Namibia is a summer rainfall area, with limited showers occurring from October and building up to peak in January and February. (NDHS, 2000)

The following information was taken from the report of the 2001 Namibia Population and Housing census for the Hardap Region.

Main language:

• Nama/Damara: 44%
• Afrikaans: 44%
• Oshivambo: 7%

Literacy rate, 15+ years: 83 %
Education, 15+ years

• Never attended school: 13%
• Currently at school: 9%
• Left school: 73%

Labour force, 15+ years:

• In labour force: 64%
• Employed: 66%
• Unemployed: 34%
• Outside labour force: 29%
• Student: 29%
• Homemaker: 37%
• Retired, too old etc. 33%

• Household
• Farming: 9%
• Wages and salaries: 61%
• Cash remittance: 7%
• Business, non-farming: 5%
• Pension: 15%

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OBJECTIVES

• To ensure efficient regional management
• To improve quality of health services in all hospitals
• To provide quality primary health care service
• To improve developmental social welfare services

MAIN OUTPUT AREAS

• General and functional management
• PHC services
• Hospital services
• Developmental social welfare services

GENERAL SUPPORT SERVICES

The division is responsible for providing administrative support in terms of:

• Office and general services
• Logistics and facility management
• Finance and social accounts
• Human Resource management

PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
The division is responsible for uplifting public health standards including the following:

• Sanitation
• Vector Borne Disease Control
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Public hygiene and environmental pollution control
• Infectious disease control
• Food safety and hygiene

CURATIVE SERVICES
The division is responsible for the provision of Nursing, pharmaceutical and dental services.

FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES
This division includes the following programmes:

• Safe Motherhood and newborn care:
• Expanded program on Immunization (EPI)
• Integrated Management of Childhood illnesses (IMCI)
• Family Planning (FP)
• Antenatal Care (ANC)
• Post Natal Care (PNC)
• Food and Nutrition
• Community Based Health Care (CBHC)
• School and Adolescent Health
• Control of diarrhoeal diseases (CDD)
• Control of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI)
• Mental Health
• Non-communicable disease control

REHABILITATION & SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES

• Rehabilitation services include physiotherapy and occupational health services
• The Social welfare sector is responsible for ensuring a healthy and safe environment for the community at large, improving the living standards of the disadvantage and protect the rights and dignity of those affected by prejudice and abuse.  

SPECIAL DISEASE PROGRAM
Deals with:

• HIV/AIDS
• Tuberculosis (TB)
• Malaria

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS)
The division is responsible for managing of information for evidence-based planning, monitoring and evaluation. This is done through the development of a sound MIS that could provide information on financial, epidemiological, pharmaceutical, capital development and maintenance of facilities, human resource development, research and surveys, etc. The division is therefore responsible for the development of a minimum set of indicators for all the MIS subsystems. This tool is then utilized for monitoring the implementation of programs and services in the directorate.

DISTRICT HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES X 3: MARIENTAL, REHOBOTH AND ARANOS
The divisions are responsible for the co-ordination, management and implementation of activities at the district level, which includes all the activities run by clinics, health centers and hospitals

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HEALTH & SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES
Hardap region has one District Hospital in Mariental district, one mission hospital in Rehoboth district, three Health Centers and eleven clinics.