Athlone Hospital, also known as Lobatse Hospital, is a government-run

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located in

Lobatse Lobatse is a town in south-eastern Botswana, 70 kilometres south of the capital Gaborone, situated in a valley running north towards Gaborone and close to the border with South Africa. Lobatse has a population of 29,772 as of 2022. The town is an ...

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kal ...

. With bed capacity of 700

History

Athlone hospital (Athlone DHMT) is considered to be one of the first hospitals in Botswana, located in

, a town in South-Eastern

, 70 kilometres south of the capital

Gaborone Gaborone ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Gaboron ...

, situated in a valley running north towards Gaborone. Considered to be the largest hospital in Lobatse and a teaching hospital for many medical graduates. Laws of Botswana

Ministry of Local Government
It is established in year 1929 and it's a

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institution. The hospital consists of the following departments: internal medicine,

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, gynecology and obstetrics ,

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References

External links

Botswana Ministry of Health
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