{"id":214421,"date":"2025-11-21T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-motshegwa-acknowledges-persistent-shortage-of-medicines\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:10:59","slug":"botswana-motshegwa-acknowledges-persistent-shortage-of-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-motshegwa-acknowledges-persistent-shortage-of-medicines\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Motshegwa Acknowledges Persistent Shortage of Medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Gaborone \u2014 The Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa has acknowledged the persistent shortage of medicines and consumables across all facilities, including those in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Responding to a parliamentary question on Wednesday, the minister noted that in his State-of-the Nation-Address (SONA), the President indicated that the country should expect a significant increase in the supply of medicines in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;While the Central Medical Stores&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa has acknowledged the persistent shortage of medicines and consumables across all facilities, including those in rural areas. Responding to a parliamentary question on Wednesday, the minister noted that in his State-of-the Nation-Address (SONA), the President indicated that the country should expect a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214422,"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\/00470124:466c8857113d89db6847420a4fe36fd6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[7069,258,256,4718,2462,6452,52918,257,16601,9467,254],"class_list":["post-214421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-acknowledges","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-medicines","tag-motshegwa","tag-news","tag-persistent","tag-shortage","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00470124:466c8857113d89db6847420a4fe36fd6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214421","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=214421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}