Botswana's Health Care Policy: Is it Alma Ata or Post-Alma Ata?
Friday, February 08, 2008
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.
His horrific actions, betraying the trust placed in him to protect children have rightly been met with the full force of the law. Whilst we commend the court’s decision, this case forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about safeguarding our children and the lifelong scars such abuse leaves.Magistrate Kefilwe Resheng’s firm sentencing sends a powerful message that those who harm children will face severe consequences. Her words rightly...