BQA, BHPC deal commendable

The Botswana Qualifications Authority(BQA) signed a memorandum of understanding with Botswana Health Professionals Council (BHPC) this week to work together to achieve common goals in the future.

In the deal, BHPC, which is a regulatory body for health professional practitioners, will be engaged in quality assurance in health training programmes in the country.

BHPC has in the past rooted out unscrupulous doctors and surgeons who engaged in unethical practices that resulted in permanent injuries to patients and loss of lives in some extreme situations.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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