"We have a tertiary care problem in Botswana. At the moment, we have only three referral hospitals, Nyangabwe and Princess Marina Hospital for general special care and Sbrana in Lobatse, which serves as a psychiatric hospital and the two specific medical tertiary facilities being Princess Marina and Nyangabwe hospitals are faced by congestion."
"We need to continue with our strategy and make sure that we do not fall back. However we still have a challenge of lifestyle diseases. Lifestyle diseases are those that are encouraged by our way of life, that is what we eat, the rate at which we do our physical activity, awareness or consciousness of our health status."
"“Through this event it is evident that Botswana Ash recognizes the value of wellness of its employees, their families and the community at large. I must say, a healthy and productive employee comes from a good background of a healthy and a well family, and this to a great extent is also influenced by the environment within which they live in."
"We are also going to hire specialists that are commensurate with a referral centre, for instance with a minimum basic package of two gynecologists, two surgeons, two anaestheologists, two orthopedic specialists and others much needed, per hospitals."
"We have partners in the form of countries that we have agreements with, that is Cuba and Mauritius so far, and if we don’t get them in Botswana we are going to recruit them from these countries."
"Staff welfare is very important; we need to focus on improving our staff welfare. When employees are not happy they will not render good service."
"The four common and modifiable risk factors that increase the chances of developing non-communicable diseases are tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol. Let us note that metabolic or biological factors such as high blood pressure or hypertension, overweight or obesity, raised blood cholesterol and raised blood sugar are predictors of non-communicable diseases."