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News & Updates

Project milestones, regulatory progress and clinical partnerships from the TEMCO project team, building a hospital at Gaborone's airport for the whole of southern Africa, where complex and rare care is held close to home and treating the region earns Botswana foreign exchange.

Clinical

The Planned Clinical Programme, Service by Service

Each of the seven planned Centres of Excellence now has a profile of its own, including maternity and high-risk pregnancy care (obstetrics), neonatal and paediatric intensive care for newborn babies and children, and IVF and fertility care for women and for men. A family or a referring clinician can read, service by service, what the hospital will hold when it opens in 2029.

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Partnership

Clinical Operations Partnership

TEMCO works with an experienced SADC-region clinical operations partner, bringing protocols, specialist staffing pipelines and training integration to its planned Centres of Excellence, beginning with the maternity, neonatal and paediatric services for mothers, newborn babies and children at the heart of the plan.

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Regulatory

BETP Secretariat Delivery-Readiness Validation

TEMCO received a BETP Secretariat delivery-readiness validation, the Making The Most marker, following the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme Labs cohort, an implementation-readiness review of the financial model and delivery plan.

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Clinical

Clinical Advisory Team Expanded

Three new clinical specialists joined the TEMCO advisory team: a paediatric intensive-care specialist for children, a nuclear medicine specialist and a technical clinical expert, deepening the bench behind children's intensive care, cancer imaging and the equipment plan.

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Regulatory

Located Within the SSKIA Special Economic Zone

TEMCO is sited within the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport Special Economic Zone, where the zone framework applies: 0% customs duty on qualifying medical equipment, free profit repatriation, no exchange controls, and no export condition on the licence.

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Capital

Pre-Operational Project Team Finalised

Sailas Temwa, Chairman & Project Lead, finalised the pre-operational project team: clinical, financial, operational, engineering, legal and community leads, with a senior advisory bench of clinical specialists supporting each Centre of Excellence.

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In the Press

Named among Botswana's priority projects

As reported by Daily News · 20 November 2025

“…various projects including TEMCO Hospital … had attracted strong investor interest.”
— attributed to Ndaba Gaolathe, Vice President & Minister of Finance, Republic of Botswana, on Botswana's Economic Transformation Programme (BETP).Daily News, 20 November 2025 — reported by Ketshepile More.

TEMCO Specialised General Hospital is named among the priority projects of Botswana's Economic Transformation Programme (BETP) in national and government reporting. It is being built as a regional hospital, drawing patients from across southern Africa to Gaborone for specialist care.

Excerpts are reproduced briefly with attribution for reporting; full articles are available at the linked sources.

Stay Informed

The project moves steadily toward opening in 2029, and each milestone is published here. Write to our investor relations team, or ask to be added to the list that receives announcements as they are made.