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Botswana declares health emergency

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President Duma Boko has declared a public health emergency in a national address this morning.

The President further declared that the state-run Central Medical stores (CMS) has failed.

“This failure has led to a severe disruption to health supplies countrywide. Second, your government has taken command of the situation and is addressing the failures and shortcomings systematically to ensure that the situation is addressed both in the short and the long term,” Boko stated.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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