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Gov’t needs to give health care urgency it requires

Government has committed to ensuring that the issue of medicine shortages is resolved urgently across the country. Attempts have been made, but as captured by the Leader of Opposition, Dumelang Saleshando in Parliament recently, the crisis is far from being over.

The Member of Parliament is warning that patients suffering from chronic conditions continue to face potentially life-threatening interruptions to their treatment because of unreliable access to medicines.

Amid the shortages, many Batswana have been left with no choice but to look for other treatment alternatives such as herbs, with many not having had been scientifically tested for effectiveness.

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