31 Jul 2023

River Side Hospital in Francistown building an additional 100-bed facility whose construction is expected to start in less than two months. 

This will be an increase from the current 53 beds. 

Revealing the plan during a tour of the Tati River Side Hospital last week, the hospital’s director, Dr Kgosidialwa Mompati said the new development would be built adjacent to Tati River Lodge (TRL) on a four-hectare plot. 

He said this was being done in response to the growing demand for the service in the northern part of the country. He disclosed that included in the new wing would be the “International Cancer Centre for Francistown (ICCF)”. 

Dr Mompati said the new facility would be built in partnership with some French investors. 

He said the hospital currently had 272 employees, most of them being citizens, and this number would increase significantly when the new facility came into operation. 

Dr Mompati, however, registered a concern that government was underutilising Tati River Side Hospital by continuing to refer patients to Gaborone and, in some cases, South Africa while bypassing a well-staffed state of the art local facility. Ends