08 Aug 2021

The Roman Catholic Church has donated a mobile clinic worth over P2.5 million to the government. 

The mobile clinic will be used to provide comprehensive community-based health services to Ramotswa and Gaborone communities. 

It will as such bolster efforts by the Ministry of Health to revive primary health care by providing integrated, high impact and client-centred services through community-based service delivery.  

The clinic offers a complete and flexible option of comprehensive and integrated health packages that address the needs of individuals through a one-stop-shop service. 

Giving the overview of the project, senior Matron Ms Midah Mogonono said the clinic would offer integrated health services.

She said it would also provide a safe environment for service access by vulnerable groups like pregnant women and people on continuous drug therapies. 

Project coordinator Ms Senzeni Makhwaje said mobile clinics provided a platform for interaction between the health-care provider and the client in a safe and comfortable space and thus facilitated a holistic care approach. 

Further, she said, the project would improve chronic disease management and eventually reduce costs incurred by health facilities. 

She also indicated that currently, health facilities were congested because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result, other health matters were not being addressed efficiently. 

Ms Makhwaje said the mobile clinic would therefore help to decongest static facilities by offering services through community outreaches. 

South-East District Council chairperson Mr Augustine Peloewetse commended both government and the Catholic Church for the initiative, saying it was needed more than ever to help decongest health facilities. 

He also said it would be ideal to have mobile clinics in other parts of the country. 

The mobile clinic will provide various services such as antenatal care, Anti-Retroviral and Hypertensive drugs refill and general consultation including screenings of sexually transmitted diseases and pap-smear.  A community mobile team comprising three midwives, two health education assistants, two HIV testing officers and two support staff are responsible for the clinic ends