25 Nov 2025

There are currently 1 368 mobile stops in Botswana with varying structures ranging from camping tents and temporary shelters to some permanent structures erected in private properties, particularly in farming areas.

Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa, told Parliament on Monday.

He explained that the Bobirwa constituency had 18 health facilities, comprising six clinics and 12 health posts.

Additionally, there are 21 mobile stops which have been fully operational with a 100 per cent coverage for the past three months, Mr Motshegwa said and added that while these were commendable efforts, the ministry was facing challenges of general infrastructure defects in all mobile stops which required maintenance.

Nevertheless, he said plans were underway to refurbish these facilities, subject to the availability of funds.

The minister further noted that the Bobirwa District was fairly vast and had five remote villages and to improve access to health services, government had long established mobile stops as the first point for the delivery of primary health care services and officially recognised them as the lowest tier of health facilities in Botswana.

This, he said aligned with the health sector’s True North of transforming Botswana health system to match the global universal health coverage average by 2036.

Bobirwa MP, Mr Taolo Lucas had asked the minister to appraise the House on the number of mobile health clinics around the country and indicate the number of those that required urgent refurbishment.

He further wanted the minister to state the number of mobile health clinics in the Bobirwa Constituency and those that required immediate refurbishment as well as plans to entrench mobile health clinics as the first port of call for the delivery of primary health care. ENDS