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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of Health (MoH) Dr Edwin Dikoloti has revealed that they’re currently engaged in negotiations with the Directorate of Public Service Managemen (DPSM) to review local octors’ salaries.<\/b><\/p>\n

He said the issue was discussed during a recent cabinet retreat, and an agreement to fast-track talks with DPSM was reached.<\/p>\n

Giving a health update recently, Dikoloti said his Ministry is finding it difficult to retain specialist doctors, who are leaving government health institutions in large numbers in search of greener pastures.<\/p>\n

He said this year alone, government has spent P60 million to train more specialist doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners.<\/p>\n

\u201cHealth is a specialised sector, so their salaries must be reviewed,\u201d said Dikoloti.<\/p>\n

The Minister said their biggest concern is that after completing their specialised training, doctors only spend three months working at government hospitals before joining private practice or moving abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve shortage of Operating Department Practitioner or Anaesthetics Nurses, Orthopaedics, eye specialists, Neurosurgeon among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He further revealed that they\u2019ve the intake of specialists and increased their training budget f P15 million to P60 million annually.<\/p>\n

\u201cResearch shows that in the next 10 years there will be shortage of 80 million doctors across the world so we are preparing for the future,\u201d said Dikoloti.<\/p>\n

Dr Dikoloti further said many people are losing their lives to non-communicable diseases like cancer so which calls for more specialists.<\/p>\n

However with the recent 300 percent salary hike by the Zambian government, Dikoloti\u2019s Ministry is also finding it hard to attract specialists from the neighbouring country to address the acute shortage.<\/p>\n

For his part,MoH Deputy Permanent SecetaryDr Tshepo Machacha said it\u2019s important to invest in local doctors and motivate them. He said they have also deployed over 400 specialist nurses to augment the doctors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went to other countries like Namibia and Zambia for benchmarking to find out how they managed to retain their health professionals and shared them with DPSM. If we can\u2019t retain them the cabinet has agreed to allow specialists to use our facilities and we see how they can assist the public. Health can\u2019t be one size fit all, and the conversation with DPSM is at an advanced stage. The other thing we are looking at is condition of service for our employees,\u201d said Machacha.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Botswana. Minister of Health (MoH) Dr Edwin Dikoloti has revealed that they’re currently engaged in negotiations with the Directorate of Public Service Managemen (DPSM) to review local octors’ salaries. He said the issue was discussed during a recent cabinet retreat, and an agreement to fast-track talks with DPSM was reached. 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