At a community gathering in Francistown, Botswana's President Duma Boko placed a precise and troubling number before his people: 81,000 citizens living with non-communicable diseases, many unable to reliably access the medications they require. The shortages, he explained, are not misfortune but consequence — the residue of procurement failures, supplier overcharging, and institutional mismanagement inherited from prior administrations. His address was both a reckoning with the past and a conditional promise about the future, one whose fulfillment depends heavily on the pace of economic recove
Botswana Grapples With 81,000 NCD Cases Amid Drug Shortages
81,000 Batswana are living with serious non-communicable diseases while facing medication shortages in public health facilities.