The councillors toured the hospital yesterday and expressed their misgivings about the service rendered by the hospital to the hospital management. NEDC Council chairperson City Kealotswe said that they were part of Francistown and as such wished that a district hospital be built in the area to relieve NRH. "We keep hearing that it is because of financial constraints that Francistown cannot get a district hospital but we do not agree with that," he said.
He said that he was also concerned about the deaths that happen at this hospital while patients are under observation. "Critical patients can be said to be under observation for three to four days and others do not make it as they die while waiting to be seen by the doctor. "The management should talk about this burning issue because that is why you hear people saying that this hospital is killing people," he said. Kealotswe also complained that many villages in his area that include Matshelagabedi, Patayamatebele and Tati Siding have no ambulances.
