{"id":22222,"date":"2023-02-16T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:45:54","slug":"over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card","title":{"rendered":"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Parliament has heard that 23 474 patients countrywide have been issued with a chronic illness programme card since December last year.<\/b><\/p>\n

Answering a question in Parliament on Tuesday, Assistant Minister of Health, Mr Sethomo Lelatisitswe said out of the number, 699 were from the Bobirwa Sub-region.<\/p>\n

Mr Lelatisitswe explained that one had to be a citizen of Botswana with an existing chronic illness for which they were prescribed medicines by a nurse or doctor in a government health facility for them to qualify to be issued with the card.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe patient must be stable on treatment, meaning they are reviewed at intervals of three to six months,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He said illnesses covered under the programme included hypertension, gout, asthma, mental illnesses and chronic conditions, among others.<\/p>\n

On an awareness programme, the assistant minister said such was done through a Botswana Television programme, Tsa Botsogo, while further information was provided to patients at health facilities.<\/p>\n

Member of Parliament for Bobonong, Mr Taolo Lucas had asked the minister to state the criteria used for patients to qualify for the card, the number of Batswana who had been issued with it in the Bobirwa sub-region.<\/p>\n

Mr Lucas had also wanted to know if there was any awareness programme to assist people to know about the card.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Botswana<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. Parliament has heard that 23 474 patients countrywide have been issued with a chronic illness programme card since December last year. Answering a question in Parliament on Tuesday, Assistant Minister of Health, Mr Sethomo Lelatisitswe said out of the number, 699 were from the Bobirwa Sub-region. Mr Lelatisitswe explained that one had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-22222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"\nOVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parliament has heard that 23 474 patients countrywide have been issued with a chronic illness programme card since De ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Parliament has heard that 23 474 patients countrywide have been issued with a chronic illness programme card since De ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-16T14:34:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-16T15:45:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"856\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-16T14:34:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-16T15:45:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card\"},\"wordCount\":229,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card\",\"name\":\"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD - Botswana\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-16T14:34:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-16T15:45:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Parliament has heard that 23 474 patients countrywide have been issued with a chronic illness programme card since De ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg\",\"width\":856,\"height\":550,\"caption\":\"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/\",\"name\":\"Botswana\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD - Botswana","description":"Parliament has heard that 23 474 patients countrywide have been issued with a chronic illness programme card since De ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD","og_description":"Parliament has heard that 23 474 patients countrywide have been issued with a chronic illness programme card since De ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card","og_site_name":"Botswana","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-02-16T14:34:35+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-16T15:45:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":856,"height":550,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD","datePublished":"2023-02-16T14:34:35+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-16T15:45:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card"},"wordCount":229,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Botswana","Botswana"],"articleSection":["all news","community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card","name":"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD - Botswana","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg","datePublished":"2023-02-16T14:34:35+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-16T15:45:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Parliament has heard that 23 474 patients countrywide have been issued with a chronic illness programme card since De ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676547840.12.jpg","width":856,"height":550,"caption":"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/over-23-000-patients-get-chronic-illness-card#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"OVER 23 000 PATIENTS GET CHRONIC ILLNESS CARD"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/","name":"Botswana","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}