Water crisis cripples Marina operations

Marina Hospital
Marina Hospital

The water crisis that has gripped Gaborone is causing havoc at Princess Marina Hospital where outages and low pressure are forcing authorities to turn away patients and focus on “the serious and emergency cases”.

Patients considered “not very critical” and whose care and procedures required water were at risk of not being attended to because of the measures adopted by the hospital this week, as the water crisis deepened.

Even the 200,000 litre water reservoir at Botswana’s premier referral hospital, could not meet the demand.

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