Construction of private hospital starts next month

Speaking on behalf of Botswana Public Officers' Medical Aid Scheme and PULA Medical Aid Fund (PULA), Kabelo Ebineng of AFA told Mmegi yesterday that they intend to start constructing the hospital next month. They hope the hospital will start operations late next year. He said they were still waiting for licences and regulators to give them the go-ahead to start construction. The facility to be known as the Bokamoso Private Hospital will be located in Mmopane Block 1 just off the Gaborone-Molepolole road.

The hospital is meant to save patients the inconvenience and extra costs of seeking specialist medical care abroad, especially South Africa. It is also meant to improve social infrastructure. The hospital is expected to provide specialist services dealing with ischemic heart conditions, nephrology, neuro-surgery, oncology, accident and trauma, diagnostics and magnetic resonance imaging scan capability, among others. Ebineng said that not everyone wants to be taken to South Africa for medical care.