Malefho, who was working as a medical doctor at Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching Hospital, was supposed to exit his employment contract on March 31, 2022. “It is true. I was called by the human resource officer on Thursday to come and get my dismissal letter. According to the officer, COVID-19 is now over and therefore they do not need more medical doctors anymore. "To my shock, they could at least have informed me about the intention because I was working the night shift on Wednesday.
At the moment I will be concentrating on my life because I was not expecting this kind of sacking,” Malefho told The Monitor on Friday. Still, on the matter, some sources say that the decision to fire Malefho was politically motivated since there was an instruction to do so even though the hospital management was divided on the matter. “The hospital is still receiving COVID-19 patients and we are about to experience another wave. Whoever is advising the hospital management or the Ministry of Health and Wellness to sack workers claiming that COVID-19 is over, is ill-advising them. We are going to need doctors and his contract was about to end, therefore, the hospital could have waited,” the source said.
