It will provide practical, real-time training for students in specialised health services, while simultaneously doubling as a referral facility open to the public for world-class services.
Government, through the Health Ministry, is due to invest at least P1.3 billion in the hospital’s development, literally killing several birds with one stone, from employment of builders and non-academic staff, to broadening specialised health access to training future doctors, nurses and other medical staff for Botswana. Last May, the Public Accounts Committee pleaded with government to make the hospital independent of the politics and bureaucracy inherent in the ministry, in order to allow it to live up to its mandate. Bonnington South Member of Parliament (MP), Ndaba Gaolathe said experts had to be allowed to “run the show” without the interference of politicians and bureaucrats. It is commendable that these pleas have been heard and government has formed a company, which will oversee the hospital. Government’s interests in the hospital will be managed by its presence on the board and its position as being the company’s sole shareholder.
