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BDC pumps P50m into healthcare

New pathways: Kgosidiile speaking at last week's official opening PIC: BDC FACEBOOK
New pathways: Kgosidiile speaking at last week's official opening PIC: BDC FACEBOOK

TATI SIDING: The Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) has invested P49.5 million into Indus Healthcare (Pty) Ltd to develop the Francistown Academic Hospital (FAH), which was officially opened last week.

The Corporation is the state’s premier investment agency, promoting economic diversity through equity and debt injections into strategic sectors. It invests in commercially viable projects across all sectors of the economy except large-scale diamond mining.

These sectors include energy, manufacturing, industry, property, services, tourism, innovation and technology as well as agriculture locally. The BDC managing director, Cross Kgosidiile said FAH stands as a testament to the Corporation’s unwavering commitment to healthcare excellence and the relentless pursuit of progress in Botswana. “It represents the unyielding belief in the power of collaboration and the collective determination to provide world-class healthcare services to the people of this great nation,” he said at the official opening.

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