Botswana's Health Care Policy: Is it Alma Ata or Post-Alma Ata?

It's unfortunate that a young doctor arguing the ideas of the young and progressive was misunderstood by a senior colleague, Dr. Edward T. Maganu (Mmegi, 31/01/2008) to be a personal attack.

In as much as I am grateful for his late welcome to the public forum) he needs to know that I have been debating on the national scene for the last four years.

The purpose of the last article I wrote was to continue a healthy debate on health care policy because it is policy that determines how health care is delivered even the facilities and manpower required. One must admit that Dr. Maganu's 2006 article entitled 'Rights without responsibilities?' was unacceptable to the young because simply put one can argue that education is a right society has to bestow on its young people. As citizen doctors, we were born Batswana and that entitles us to education as determined by the Botswana education policy.

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Micro-procurement maze demands urgent reform

Whilst celebrating milestones in inclusivity, with notably P5 billion awarded to vulnerable groups, the report sounds a 'siren' on a dangerous and growing trend: the ballooning use of micro-procurement. That this method, designed for small-scale, efficient purchases, now accounts for a staggering 25% (P8 billion) of total procurement value is not a sign of agility, but a 'red flag'. The PPRA’s warning is unequivocal and must be...

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