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The TEMCO Story

A Batswana-led initiative to transform specialised healthcare access across Botswana and the SADC region.

Addressing Botswana's Healthcare Gap

Every year, Batswana spend hundreds of millions of pula on medical treatment abroad. Patients travel to South Africa and India for oncology radiation, cardiac catheterisation, robotic surgery and dialysis — services that should be available at home.

The TEMCO project team was assembled to address this gap directly. Clinicians, engineers, legal advisors and operational leaders came together with a shared objective: build a 130-bed specialised hospital at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport SEZ that would repatriate this medical outflow and deliver advanced care locally.

This is not a general clinic or a wellness retreat. TEMCO is a specialised tertiary-care hospital focused on the four clinical areas that currently drive medical travel abroad — oncology, cardiovascular, robotic and neurosurgery, and trauma with dialysis.

Modern hospital exterior

Hundreds of Millions of Pula

Annual Medical Outflow

Batswana spend hundreds of millions of pula each year on cross-border medical treatment. TEMCO exists to keep that spend — and that care — at home.

6-12 Months

Current Wait Times

Current waiting periods for oncology, cardiac catheterisation, robotic surgery and dialysis.

Local Access

Cost & Convenience

TEMCO is positioned to deliver specialised care at a meaningful discount to equivalent regional private rates, without the travel burden.

National Impact

Modelled ten-year socioeconomic contribution across the facility, the specialist pipeline, and the SADC patient-flow economy.

GDP Contribution

Material contribution to Botswana's GDP across the operating period, through construction spend, operating revenue, and multiplier effects.

Local Employment

Significant direct and indirect job creation across clinical, operational, and construction roles — anchored in Batswana recruitment and training.

Patients Served

Thousands of patients served annually at steady state, drawing from Botswana and the wider SADC region through airport-adjacent medical-tourism flow.

Lives Saved

Lives saved through local access to specialist oncology, cardiovascular, and complex-care services — removing the mortality burden of delayed cross-border referral.

Medical-Travel Savings

Medical-travel spend returned to Botswana — capital that today leaves the country for treatment abroad, recaptured into domestic healthcare and adjacent services.

Specialist Pipeline

A training pipeline for specialist clinicians — building durable medical capacity for Botswana and the SADC region through clinical partnership and JCI-aligned protocols.

Full impact projections — including quantified GDP, jobs, patient volume, lives saved, travel savings, and specialist throughput — are available to qualified investors on inquiry.

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Our Mission

To repatriate Botswana's annual medical tourism outflow by delivering specialised tertiary-care services locally — oncology, cardiovascular, robotic surgery and dialysis — at a meaningful discount to equivalent regional private rates, while creating significant local employment, contributing materially to GDP, and establishing a specialist training pipeline for the SADC region.

Treatment at home. No more six-to-twelve-month waits. No more flights to Johannesburg for a cath lab procedure. Care delivered locally by BHPC-registered practitioners working alongside international partners.

Our Principles

The values that guide every decision, from clinical design to investor engagement.

Clinical Credibility

Every decision is guided by evidence-based medicine and internationally recognised clinical standards. Numbers over adjectives, outcomes over promises.

National-Priority Alignment

TEMCO is embedded in Botswana’s national development strategy. NDP 12 Priority, BETP Project, PEMANDU Associates delivery-readiness validation, SEZA-qualifying and Ministry of Health Letter of Support.

Patient Access

No Motswana should need to fly abroad for cancer treatment, cardiac catheterisation or dialysis. Local access to specialised care is a right, not a privilege.

Economic Impact

Repatriating hundreds of millions of pula in annual medical outflow, creating significant local employment and contributing materially to GDP. Full ten-year impact projections available to qualified investors on inquiry.

Batswana-Led

Conceived, led and governed by Batswana professionals. International partnerships complement local leadership rather than replacing it.

Transparency and Accountability

Open governance, traceable financials and a commitment to JCI accreditation. Every claim we make is defensible and every number is sourced.

National-Priority Validation

TEMCO has secured endorsement across Botswana's national development and economic-transformation frameworks, from development planning through to special-economic-zone qualification.

1

NDP 12 Priority

National Development Plan

Listed as a priority project under Botswana’s 12th National Development Plan.

2

BETP Project

Economic Transformation Programme

Accepted into the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme following the PEMANDU Labs cohort.

3

Ministry of Health

Letter of Support

Formal letter of support from the Ministry of Health, confirming clinical-sector endorsement of the project.

4

PEMANDU MTM

Delivery-Readiness Validation

PEMANDU Associates Making The Most (MTM) designation, confirming the project is shovel-ready and delivery-validated.

5

SEZA Qualifying

Special Economic Zone Authority

SEZA-qualifying within the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport SEZ framework. Fiscal architecture details available to qualified investors on inquiry.

Partnerships and Delivery Model

TEMCO is project team-led, with strategic partnerships that complement local leadership.

Advance Medical Africa

Clinical Operations Partner

South Africa and Zimbabwe-based clinical operations partner providing protocols, staffing pipelines and training integration. Advance Medical Africa brings established clinical workflows and specialist recruitment networks to support TEMCO's operational readiness.

PEMANDU Associates

Model Reviewer

Reviewed and validated the TEMCO financial model and implementation plan through the BETP process. PEMANDU's involvement provides independent, government-programme-level validation of the project's delivery readiness and economic assumptions.

Project Team-Led Delivery

Engineering, Procurement, Management

Engineering is delivered in-house by the project team. Procurement is managed jointly with approached contractors. Management is project team-led, with an explicit opening for a strategic investor partner to bring hospital-sector operational experience alongside capital.

Meet the Team Behind TEMCO

Clinicians, engineers, legal advisors and operational leaders assembled to deliver Botswana's specialised hospital.