Nurses Want Decongestion In Health Facilities

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has bemoaned dwindling resources in an overwhelmed system, leading to failure to fully carry out the health mandate as competently as practitioners wish they could.

Botswana Nurses Union (BONU) decried that the government has not heeded their call to decongest health facilities and also hire more people.  “We are concerned about the congestion in the health facilities where people are tested, isolated and quarantined in areas like Francistown, Greater Gaborone and hospitals like Sbrana where the situation is bad. We know that COVID-19 demands decongestion. That’s why we social distance. We have had discussions with authorities before calling for decongestion and also the employment of more graduates who are roaming the streets while their services are [greatly] needed,” BONU president, Obonolo Rahube said.