Public Health Specialist Bookings Is 2021

SELEBI-PHIKWE: Selebi-Phikwe District Health Management Team is facing a serious shortage of specialists as gynecology patients currently booked to Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital have to wait until 2021.

The waiting period for gynae patients in Selebi-Phikwe Government Hospital is eight months. The district currently has only the services of one specialist being the physician, while contracts for the other four specialists were not renewed.

The principal economic planner at the Selebi-Phikwe Town Council Queen Goepamang told civic leaders when delivering the urban development report recently that there is also a serious shortage of drugs the thing that forces the DHMT to procure them from private pharmacies who mostly fail to meet the demand.

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