07 Oct 2013

Boitakanelo College graduates have been urged to use the knowledge that they have gained  at the institution to empower others.

Speaking at Boitekanelo College graduation ceremony on October 4, the Assistant Minister for Presidential Affairs and Public Administration, Mr Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri encouraged the graduates to provide a quality health care.

He said they should remember that they had been provided with the finest training ground to explore their limits and realise their potential. Mr Matlhabaphiri told graduates that the course that they had just completed had armed them with the necessary skills to allow them to make a difference in the country’s health sector .

“Go out there and not only make Boitekanelo College proud but the nation at large,” he said. Mr Matlhabaphiri said the health care system had for a longtime been short staffed in as far as doctors and nurses were concerned.

He therefore appreciated the institution for its contribution towards providing the required human resource to augment the existing health care providers. Furthermore Mr Matlhabaphiri said Boitekanelo College  had not only answered the Ministry of Health’s call but answered the nation’s needs of improving access to tertiary education which was one of the pillars of vision 2016.

Mr Matlhabaphiri highlighted that the Ministry of Health was embarking on a national ambulance service of which Boitekanelo College was feeding the initiative with its emergency care graduates who would provide the necessary pre-hospital care.

This, he said, had given them the opportunity to transform the health sector, saying it would not only be their knowledge and acquired skills  which will make them bring change but their character, courage, and discipline under the most difficult circumstances. Ends