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Govt invested M340 million for nutrition

Ntsoaki Motaung The Member of Parliament (MP) Makhalanyane Mokhothu has said that the budget for the financial year 2023/2024 includes M340 million for nutrition. This Makhalanyane...

The numbers: AIDS and TB-related deaths in Lesotho

Ntsoaki Motaung Tuberculosis is still one of the major causes of death in Lesotho, killing thousands every year, according to experts. An estimated 4800 people died...

Health experts set agenda to improve local manufacturing

Marcia Zali African health experts gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, to strategise on Africa’s local manufacturing of pharmaceutical and health products. During the two-day strategy meeting,...

Mochoboroane bemoans high cancer treatment costs

Ntsoaki Motaung Minister of Health Selibe Mochoboroane has decried the high cost of treating cancer patients abroad. “Between 2015 and 2016, we used to spend between...

Robbed of normal childhood by rare disease

Founder of Rare Diseases Lesotho Association Nthabeleng Ramoeli

Doctors announce countrywide strike

Ntsoaki Motaung Lesotho Medical Association (LMA) yesterday announced that doctors will from March 1, 2023, stop working at night and on weekends and public holidays. In...

The nightmare of a waterless and powerless clinic

Ntsoaki Motaung Imagine you are a nurse trying to attend to a pregnant woman giving birth in the middle of the night, in a clinic...

Nutrition in adolescence: Why it matters

Ntsoaki Motaung Nearly one in two adolescents are stunted and approximately 30 percent of adolescent girls are anaemic, impacting their school performance, productivity, and their...

‘War against Covid-19 not yet over’

Ntsoaki Motaung The war against Covid-19 is not over yet, ministry of health’s public relations manager ‘Mamolise Falatsa warned this week. “We will say we have...

Hospitals struggle to dispose of waste

Ntsoaki Motaung The two government hospitals, Berea and Motebang, are struggling to dispose of waste, District Medical Officer (DMO) for Berea Dr Liketso Mochochoko admitted...

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