{"id":220483,"date":"2026-01-14T23:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-visits-princess-marina-hospital-to-appreciate-challenges\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:15:29","slug":"botswana-boko-visits-princess-marina-hospital-to-appreciate-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-visits-princess-marina-hospital-to-appreciate-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Boko Visits Princess Marina Hospital to Appreciate Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">Gaborone \u2014 President Advocate Duma Boko made a surprise visit to Princess Marina Hospital on Monday,where he toured the wards, to appreciate the challenges the hospital was faced with. During the visit President Boko learnt that Princess Marina Hospital, one of the referral hospitals in the country, is experiencing shortage of medication, dilapidated infrastructure and does not have a single psychiatrist. The visit also allowed him to inspect patient welfare and conditions of medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601140214.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 President Advocate Duma Boko made a surprise visit to Princess Marina Hospital on Monday,where he toured the wards, to appreciate the challenges the hospital was faced with. During the visit President Boko learnt that Princess Marina Hospital, one of the referral hospitals in the country, is experiencing shortage of medication, dilapidated infrastructure and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4264,4718,2462,6977,6362,18231,257,6575,254,7189],"class_list":["post-220483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-challenges","tag-hospital","tag-marina","tag-news","tag-princess","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visits"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220483","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=220483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}