A Princess decrowned, a glory faded
Friday, January 30, 2015
From its establishment as one of the first landmarks in the fledgling capital, Princess Marina Hospital has watched as the city burgeoned around it.
From a population of 5,000 people at Independence, the city now has more than 300,000 residents with an ever-deepening complexity of health care needs, over and above epidemics such as HIV/AIDS. Princess Marina’s age can be seen in that when it was established, the capital city was still known as Gaberones, a colonial misspelling of the word Gaborone, which would be adopted two years after the hospital opened its doors.
It has only been a month since the newly elected government, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), took power, and there are already a lot of changes. Across different ministries, ministers are hard at work. Following heavy rainfall and storms that hit Francistown recently, the Minister of State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, made a commitment that government will assist those affected by the heavy rains. Mohwasa, when addressing the media in...