US EditionBotswana declares public health emergency as clinics run out of medicine
Botswana's health crisis stems from a $17 million emergency fund amid a diamond market slump and US aid cuts, with the military managing medicine distribution to remote areas.
- On Monday, President Duma Boko announced a public health emergency in Botswana in response to a critical lack of vital drugs and medical supplies across the country.
- The crisis resulted from a collapsed national medical supply chain caused by depleted government coffers and cuts to U.S. aid under President Donald Trump.
- Botswana, with 2.5 million people, faces growing poverty and unemployment alongside medicine shortages including treatments for cancer, HIV, and tuberculosis.
- President Boko announced emergency funding of 250 million pula and a military-led plan to oversee immediate medicine distribution starting from Gaborone.
- UNICEF called for urgent action to protect children’s health, highlighting one in five children underweight near the Namibian border, while officials expressed confidence the crisis is surmountable.
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Botswana's health care has collapsed, and the causes of the crisis in southern Africa are the cuts in US development aid, as well as the fall in prices on the diamond market.
Botswana Declares Public Health Emergency as Medicine Supplies Collapse - teleSUR English
Botswana’s President Duma Boko declared a public health emergency on Monday, saying the national medical supply chain had collapsed and left hospitals and clinics across the country without essential medicines and equipment. RELATED: South Africa’s HIV Crisis Deepens as U.S. Aid Cuts Leave Thousands Without Lifesaving Care In a televised address, Boko announced that the military would take over distribution, with the first trucks leaving the cap…
Botswana Declares Public Health Emergency Over Severe Medicine Shortage
Botswana has declared a public health emergency after facing severe shortages of essential medicines and medical equipment. President Duma Boko announced the decision in a televised address, setting out a multimillion-pound plan to rectify the supply chain involving military oversight.
Medicine shortage triggers health emergency in Botswana
A health emergency has been declared in Botswana as the country runs critically low on medicines and supplies. Hospitals and clinics are struggling to treat conditions like hypertension, cancer, and diabetes.
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