{"id":222789,"date":"2026-02-04T12:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-takes-action-to-mend-broken-trust-in-health-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:08:45","slug":"botswana-boko-takes-action-to-mend-broken-trust-in-health-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-takes-action-to-mend-broken-trust-in-health-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Boko Takes Action to Mend Broken Trust in Health Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Gaborone \u2014 President Advocate Duma Boko says government is taking firm and deliberate steps to repair Botswana&#8217;s health system, assuring the nation that long-standing drug shortages are being tackled through emergency interventions and deep structural reform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Addressing members of Ntlo-ya-Dikgosi during a dinner held in Gaborone on Thursday, President Boko acknowledged that medicine stock- outs had become a painful reality for many Batswana, but emphasised that the situation did not emerge&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030024.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 says government is taking firm and deliberate steps to repair Botswana&#8217;s health system, assuring the nation that long-standing drug shortages are being tackled through emergency interventions and deep structural reform. Addressing members of Ntlo-ya-Dikgosi during a dinner held in Gaborone on Thursday, President Boko acknowledged that medicine stock- outs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222790,"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\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[6394,258,256,4264,4718,2462,7710,5731,11069,257,5991,254,5056,8641],"class_list":["post-222789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-broken","tag-health","tag-mend","tag-news","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes","tag-trust"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222789","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=222789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}