Government honours Sir Ketumile Masire
Correspondent | Thursday July 13, 2017 15:04
The state of the art facility located at the University of Botswana in Gaborone has been renamed the Sir Ketumile Masire University Hospital.
This is in recognition of Sir Ketumile’s immense and immeasurable contribution to Botswana’s development as the Head of State from 1980 to 1998 and in full recognition of his role as the University of Botswana Chancellor from 1980 to 1998. He was reappointed Chancellor from 2008 until his passing on in June 2017.
Construction of the 450 bed University Hospital started in 2010 and it is expected to start operation in late 2017 or early 2018. The mission of the Botswana University Hospital is to provide excellence in Medical Education, Research and Patient Centred Clinical Care.
Clinical services to be provided at the 2.1 billion Pula facility include General medical and surgical services, Medical, Paediatric, orthopaediac, Obstetric and gynaecological and surgical subspecialty services, medical and radiation oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Cardiovascular and cardiac surgery Centre, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Centre, Accident and Emergency services, Trauma and Burn Centre, Critical Care, Dialysis Centre, Rehabilitation Services, Nuclear Medicine, as well as Interventional radiology.
It will also provide allied Health Services such as Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nutrition and Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy, Audiology, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Radiography, Prosthetics and Orthotics and Medical Health Information.The Sir Ketumile Masire University Hospital is also expected to improve medical training not only for Botswana but for the SADC region as well.
The official opening of the facility will be done upon completion.