The achievement of a National One Health (OH) Strategy was not a walk in the park for Namibia, experts noted Tuesday 25th March, but every effort was worth it.
A succession of hurdles had been identified early on, which initially made the journey appear more daunting than it actually ended up being, and only extremely dedicated, and painstaking efforts towards bringing together relevant stakeholders, whose eyes were on the prize, would guarantee a positive result.
We needed to know if we really were in need of the strategy, and we therefore had to carefully identify the gaps that were there,” says Iyaloo Mwaningange, the Deputy Director and Field Epidemiologist, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia. “We therefore had to do serious reflections before moving forward.
It helped.