Botswana’s public health budgeting process is a wild guess that misses the public health needs by a mile and has resulted in the country hemorrhaging P11,68 billion.
This is the long and short of the World Health Organisation (WHO) country cooperation strategy 2024-2027 for Botswana.
It has emerged that although Botswana’s public health expenditure as a percentage of the country’s GDP is significantly higher than sub-Sahara Africa’s average, the country’s universal health coverage is significantly lower than both the global average and the average of other upper middle-income countries (UMICs).
The document states, “recent analysis indicates that Botswana has a technical efficiency of 0.22 out of 1 (measured by constant return to scale) costing the country US$ 865.27 million (aboutP11, 68 billion.”
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