BPOMAS struggles to pay doctors

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The Botswana Public Officers Medical Aid Scheme (BPOMAS) is reported to be struggling to pay bills for its clients, and the situation is getting worse by the day.

Informed private medical practitioners say the medical aid scheme struggles to pay them on time, and when it does, the payment is never in full.  Not only that, it takes a substantial period of time before the full amount is settled.

"It is really difficult.  They can't pay us on time and on many occasions, they can't pay a full amount and it takes weeks or even months before that outstanding amount can finally be settled," said one doctor.

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