The experts will be deployed all over the country but mainly in areas and towns where their services are urgently needed. Namibia relies heavily on foreign doctors who come in as either volunteers or on a contract basis. There are few Namibian doctors, but they cannot afford to take up full-time employment with the State because of the lack of financial resources to pay them well.
Foreign doctors are a source of relief given Namibia's acute shortage of medical practitioners.
The doctors can also use State facilities for their private practices.