Batswana in all-embracing TB study in SA

CARLETONVILLE: Sekao Gadima*, a Motswana national working at Gold Fields' Driefontein Mine, is a tuberculosis patient at Leslie Williams Private Hospital.

Like several dozens of others, he has been in and out of this hospital being treated for TB. His condition has now mutated into the dreaded multi-drug resistant TB.

Gadima missed out on preventative TB therapy launched two years ago by the Aurum Institute for Health Research headed by Professor Gavin Churchyard.

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Who watches the watchdog?

For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...

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