{"id":241289,"date":"2026-08-17T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-nhi-requires-legislative-and-governance-reforms\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:06:59","slug":"botswana-nhi-requires-legislative-and-governance-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-nhi-requires-legislative-and-governance-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: NHI Requires Legislative and Governance Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Gaborone \u2014 Minister of Health Dr Stephen Modise has called on Members of Parliament to scrutinise the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) Reform, describing it as one of the most consequential initiatives in Botswana&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking on Tuesday at Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching Hospital during a parliamentary workshop, Dr Modise said MPs, as custodians of the legislative agenda, would play a critical role in shaping the future of the health system. Vice President Mr. Ndaba Gaolathe also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608140157.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Minister of Health Dr Stephen Modise has called on Members of Parliament to scrutinise the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) Reform, describing it as one of the most consequential initiatives in Botswana&#8217;s history. Speaking on Tuesday at Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching Hospital during a parliamentary workshop, Dr Modise said MPs, as custodians of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241290,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6866,7579,257,55186,7580,7163,254],"class_list":["post-241289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-governance","tag-legislative","tag-news","tag-nhi","tag-reforms","tag-requires","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/241289","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=241289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}