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Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital overwhelmed with high workload

PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

FRANCISTOWN: The Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital (NHR) Superintendent, Dr Ivan Kgetsi, has said the facility is overburdened with a heavy workload due to the large number of outpatients.

Kgetsi was addressing the dignitaries during the Chinese medical team orientation held recently at the Cresta Thapama Hotel. Despite being referred to as a small hospital, Kgetsi said that there is a high workload because they see more patients than Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone.

He said while Marina serves the southern part of the country, the NHR admits patients from a wide variety of regions, making up nearly two thirds of Botswana. NHR serves a population of over one million people and served under 532-bed capacity hospital but in terms of admission, they have admission of patients close to 600.

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