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Botswana has declared a\u00a0public health emergency<\/a>\u00a0after facing severe shortages of essential medicines and medical equipment. President Duma Boko announced the decision in a televised address,\u00a0setting out a multimillion-pound plan to rectify the supply chain involving military oversight.<\/p>\n Boko said that managing shortages would be “highly price sensitive” due\u00a0to limited funds.\u00a0The crisis followed a downturn in the international diamond market and cuts to U.S. aid, leaving most of the 2.5 million…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Botswana has declared a\u00a0public health emergency\u00a0after facing severe shortages of essential medicines and medical equipment. President Duma Boko announced the decision in a televised address,\u00a0setting out a multimillion-pound plan to rectify the supply chain involving military oversight. Boko said that managing shortages would be “highly price sensitive” due\u00a0to limited funds.\u00a0The crisis followed a downturn in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00540862:dccc3536a79177143820d5238e5b18b6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,7030,6990,5731,7449,257,5751,13198,9467,254],"class_list":["post-205534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-declares","tag-emergency","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-news","tag-public","tag-severe","tag-shortage","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00540862:dccc3536a79177143820d5238e5b18b6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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