India partners Botswana in health care delivery

Indian high commisioner Dr. Ketan Shukla  and Minister of Health and Wellness Dorcas Makgato and some dignitaries during the Francistown Academic Hospital groung breaking ceremony PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
Indian high commisioner Dr. Ketan Shukla and Minister of Health and Wellness Dorcas Makgato and some dignitaries during the Francistown Academic Hospital groung breaking ceremony PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

Healthcare has been identified as one of the vital areas of possible Africa-India cooperation. The needs for Healthcare in Africa still are largely unmet.

Indian expertise in healthcare and hospitals and related systems development in an affordable and adaptable avatar has the potential to bring about faster transformation of healthcare in Africa. Indians’ wider acceptance especially in Anglo-phonic Africa countries and Indian Diaspora in these countries has laid a fertile ground for raising Indian assistance in healthcare in these countries.

There is long standing cooperation between India and Botswana in the health sector. First installment of grant-in-aid in the health sector, in the form of long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets, worth Pula 1.35 million was handed over to the Botswana authorities in November 2011.

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