Ministry of Health and Social Services (Namibia)

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The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services was established at Namibian independence in 1990. The first Namibian health and social services minister was Nickey Iyambo. The current minister is Kalumbi Shangula, former chief of medical services at the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN).

Ministers

All health and social services ministers in chronological order are:

#	Name	(Birth–Death)	Party	Term start	Term end
Minister of Health and Social Services
01	Nickey Iyambo	1936–2019	SWAPO	1990	1996
02	Libertina Amathila	1940–	SWAPO	1996	2005
03	Richard Kamwi	1950–	SWAPO	2005	2015
04	Bernard Haufiku	1946–	SWAPO	2015	2018
05	Kalumbi Shangula	1948–	SWAPO	2018

This list is complete and up to date as of March 2022.