Ministry of Health and Social Services (Namibia)

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^[update] minister is Kalumbi Shangula, former chief of medical services at the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN).^[1]

Ministers

All health and social services ministers in chronological order are:

#	Picture	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	2025
06		Dr. Esperance Luvindao	1994–	SWAPO	2025	present

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