SKMTH strives to generate revenue
Friday, February 10, 2023 | 280 Views |
Dr Fani (right front row) addressing the Swiss President and his delegation PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
When briefing the Swiss President Alain Berset on Wednesday this week, he said some of the factors that they had considered are ease of staff availability in collaboration with main partners for example University of Botswana, Botswana –Baylor children’s Clinical Centre for Excellence, building on COVID-19 momentum, the readiness of key inter-dependencies for example, in theatre and pressure in the public sector (congestion and unfavourable outcomes).
He further added that for the long term, the hospital is envisaged to be a centre of excellence for certain services including a comprehensive cancer centre, critical care centre, cardiovascular centre, trauma and burn centre, renal and organ transplant centre and ophthalmology centre.
While the minister is of the view that the proposal would have significant positive economic impact, the entertainment industry players believe otherwise. The issue has over the weeks become a hot potato. But what is of essence right now is that the country needs liberal ideas to move in the right direction While opening up the economy may sound quite interesting to the ear, rolling out extended trading hours through pilot programmes without...