Hulda Kamboi Shipanga (née Ngatjikare; 28 October 1926 – 26 April 2010) was a nurse, midwife, and ministerial adviser to the Namibian Ministry of Health.
Shipanga studied further to become a midwife, a profession she then conducted at Windhoek's Old Location, a segregated area for black residents.
On 10 December 1959, the day of the Old Location Uprising, she was one of three nurses attending to the wounded[1] when doctors (all white at that time due to the restrictions of the Bantu Education Act) at the hospitals in Windhoek refused to treat them.
[2] After further qualifying as theatre nurse and specialising in paediatrics and orthopaedics in the United Kingdom, she was the highest qualified nurse in the twilight days of South-West Africa[3] and during the period of the interim government in Namibia.
[1] Founding president Sam Nujoma appointed her as special advisor to the Minister of Health Nickey Iyambo although Shipanga was already of pensionable age.