Onandjokwe State Hospital is located in Oniipa in Oshikoto Region, only ten kilometers southeast of Ondangwa.

Oral history claims that king Kambonde of Ondonga, who allocated the land to the missionaries to construct the hospital on, deliberately chose the site as it was a sacred for traditional healers.

[2][3] In October 1908 the Finnish Evangelic Lutheran Mission sent Dr Selma Rainio with two female missionaries to Ondonga – Ovamboland in what was then South West Africa.

Rainio was born on 21 March 1873 in Saarijärvi in Central Finland to Anton Lilius and Amanda Sofia Perden.

[2] Rainio died at Onandjokwe in January 1939 after 31 years of service, and is buried in the hospital cemetery Oniitewa with her patients and her co-workers.

Miraculously there were no deaths as the community, Finnish and Ovambo health workers demonstrated great co-operation and teamwork to care for the patients and to fight the fire.

While construction of the water networks was underway, a piece of burnt wood, believed to be remainders of one of the wooden poles used in the huts, was discovered.

He asked a welder, Mr Jarmo Lehtine to attached it to an angel shaped piece of iron.

This angel is now believed to protect the hospital from bad things and has since become the logo for the Onandjokwe Medical museum.

[8] Onandjokwe Hospital, which serves as the primary health care facility for the Onandjokwe District of the Oshikoto Region, is still run by the Lutheran Church of Namibia via Lutheran Medical Services and subsidized by the Government of the Republic of Namibia.

The entire Health District has a high and rising number of HIV-positive people who become hospital patients at Onandjokwe.

[10] The Shanamutango Centre for Integrated Care and Support is the hospital's newest building and is specifically designed for the provision of treatment to HIV patients.