27 Aug 2017

President Lt Gen.Dr Seretse Khama Ian Khama says the Minister of Health and Wellness is a hard worker who discharges her duties diligently as shown by her initiative to hold kgotla meetings while on leave.

Speaking during a kgotla meeting addressed by Minister Dorcas Makgato at Borotsi on August 25, President Khama, who pitched up unexpected, said he made a stopover at the kgotla after learning that the area

Member of Parliament was conducting a kgotla meeting next to his farm.

President Khama said he appointed Ms Makgato with the faith that she would deliver on her mandate of health and wellness and that he was not disappointed.

President Khama urged residents of Borotsi to register their views, ideas and complaints with their MP, and that they would be addressed whenever possible.

Minister Makgato had earlier in a series of kgotla meetings in Sefhare and Chadibe said she had delivered beyond expectations in almost two and a half years in charge of the Sefhare/Ramokgonami constituency.

Ms Makgato said since her tenure as the area MP, she had managed to deliver tangible results by way of projects in her constituency.

She, however, said her efforts were not a departure from government planning but an augmentation.

In Sefhare, the MP told residents that she had managed to seek a second opinion on the “condemned old hospital,” and that it would be resuscitated and used as a clinic to curb the long queues at Sefhare Primary Hospital which was for referrals.

Minister Makgato said she had also managed to convince government to fund the clinic projects with P48 million which would see the clinic open to the public in December.

She dismissed accusations that she used her influence to have two hospitals in Sefhare, arguing that upon completion residents of Sefhare would be expected to consult at the clinic and only go to the hospital on referral like other patients from other villages.

The minister also said she had managed to convince private companies to help build a primary school at Letoreng. She said it was disheartening to see children travelling long distances to school at Chadibe hence the move to engage in a project to help ameliorate the situation.

Ms Makgato also said she had convinced private funders to build a clinic in Borotsi, adding that the process of delivering the clinic was underway. She noted that Sefhare and Borotsi were the only villages in her constituency which did not have hospitals.

Other upcoming projects of her own initiative, she said, included devising avenues of sourcing water for the people of Moshopha, Maifala and Sefhare.

The MP also informed her electorate that the Economic Stimulus Programme houses built at Machaneng were complete, and that revenue offices would be built in the same village. She revealed that a police station would be built in Ramokgonami in 2020.

Ms Makgato said other ESP projects in her constituency included 38 Self-Help Housing Agency houses and that 28 were already complete. She added that an agricultural service centre in Sefhare would soon be completed.

Furthermore, she said the Dibete/Mookane/Machaneng road was in progress, and that it would cut down the distance to Gaborone by 80km. She said the Pilikwe/Radisele road was at the design stage, adding that initially the road was to go as far as Mokobeng.

Ms Makgato also informed her constituents that land servicing in Tumasera and Seleka was behind schedule. She said other projects behind schedule were the upgrading of the Mokobeng Clinic and the building of Borotsi clinic.Ends