Botswana: About 81,000 Batswana Live With NCDs

Francistown — About 81 000 Batswana are living with non-communicable diseases, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer particularly cervical cancer, President Advocate Duma Boko has said.

Speaking during a meet-and-greet session at Monarch kgotla in Francistown on July 23, President Boko said the rising number of NCD cases was being compounded by ongoing drug shortages in public health facilities.

However, he assured residents that the shortages would “soon be a thing of the past” as…