Indicative design conceptFor patients & referring clinicians · Opening 2029
The specialist care Southern Africa flies abroad for — 90 minutes from Gaborone Airport.
When you arrive in 2029, your journey from first enquiry to follow-up from home will be coordinated end to end — whether you travel in from across the region or seek specialist care closer to home in Botswana.
Why travel to TEMCO
Quality, proximity and value — in one journey
For patients across Southern Africa, the choice has long been a long flight to Johannesburg or India. TEMCO is built to change that — bringing accredited-pathway specialist care within a 90-minute flight, at a fraction of the cost and distance.
Accredited-pathway quality
TEMCO is built on the Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation pathway from day one — the recognised global standard for clinical quality and patient safety. If achieved, it would be the first JCI-accredited facility in Botswana.
90 minutes from the runway
The hospital sits inside the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport Special Economic Zone. By 2029, a patient in Lusaka or Harare needing a structural-heart procedure flies 90 minutes to Gaborone — not to Johannesburg or Bengaluru.
25–35% below SA private rates
Specialist care planned at 25–35% below South-African private-sector rates, with one short flight instead of a long one — so the whole journey, for you and a companion, costs less and takes less time.
Two patient flows, one gateway
A region that comes to Gaborone — and care that stays home
TEMCO is built first as a destination. Its primary purpose is to draw the region in — patients from across Southern Africa and beyond, flying into Gaborone for specialist care and earning Botswana foreign exchange. The second flow keeps Batswana at home for the specialist care they currently fly abroad for. Together they make TEMCO a gateway, not just a hospital.
Complex care, closer to home for Batswana
The second flow is the floor beneath the destination. Each year, Batswana travel to South Africa and India for treatment that is not yet available, or not at capacity, at home. TEMCO keeps those complex cases at home and widens specialist access — families treated closer to home, at lower cost, without the long-haul journey.
The region travels in — to Gaborone
This is the primary purpose. Patients from across Southern Africa and further afield travel to Gaborone for specialist treatment they would otherwise seek in Johannesburg, Bengaluru or Mumbai. Foreign patients arriving for care bring foreign currency with them — making TEMCO a forex-earning national health-export asset, the place the region comes to for care, not only a place of treatment.
The same accredited-pathway standard serves both flows: the region drawn in first, and Batswana kept home.
What you could save
See your journey at a glance
Choose where you are travelling from and the care you are considering. We'll show you, in plain terms, how TEMCO is planned to compare on cost, distance and recovery — without quoting a price before we understand your case.
Oncology — from Lusaka, Zambia
Planned radiation and medical oncology — two-linac redundancy with next-generation IMRT, VMAT, SBRT and SRS — so complex cancer care need not mean a flight abroad.
On cost
Specialist care planned at around 25–35% below South-African private-sector rates — with one short flight instead of a long one, so the whole journey costs less and takes less time.
On travel
A direct flight into Gaborone puts the hospital roughly 90 minutes from the runway — one short flight, rather than the long journey to Johannesburg or Bengaluru.
On family & recovery
Airport-adjacent recovery hospitality and accommodation for an accompanying family member are planned nearby — so the journey from the region is one trip, with somewhere calm to recover before flying home.
These are indicative comparisons for planning only, not a quotation. A written cost estimate is prepared on enquiry, once a patient coordinator has reviewed your case with the relevant specialist team. All services described are planned, with operations expected to commence in 2029.
Your journey
From first enquiry to follow-up from home
Five planned steps, held together by a single point of contact, so that travelling for specialist care is one journey — not a series of disconnected ones. Select a step to see what happens at each stage.
Enquiry or referral
You reach out — or the clinician caring for you does — with the diagnosis, any imaging or reports, and where you are travelling from. A patient coordinator reviews your case with the relevant specialist team and tells you, plainly, whether TEMCO is the right place for your treatment. There is no obligation, and what you share stays in confidence.
You speak to a real coordinator, not a form — and you keep ownership of your decision.
One short flight, not a long one
What you keep by staying in the region
Choosing Gaborone over Johannesburg, Bengaluru or Mumbai changes more than the bill. It shortens the flight, the time away and the strain on the people travelling with you. The bars below are indicative, not measured — they show the shape of the difference, not a statistic.
- Distance in the airTEMCOAbroad
From most of the region, Gaborone is one short flight — roughly 90 minutes from the runway — instead of the long haul to South Africa, India or beyond.
- Time away from homeTEMCOAbroad
A nearer hospital means less time in transit and in unfamiliar cities, and a quicker return to your own home and routine once you are well enough to travel.
- Strain on your familyTEMCOAbroad
A companion can travel with you on one short flight, with accommodation arranged nearby — rather than choosing between costly long-haul support and recovering alone.
On the care itself, specialist treatment is planned at around 25–35% below South-African private-sector rates — a written estimate is prepared once your case has been reviewed.
These comparisons are indicative and for planning only — not a quotation, and not a measured outcome. All services described are planned, with operations expected to commence in 2029.
One trip, not several
The journey is part of the care
Travelling for treatment should not mean travelling alone or unsupported. From direct flights into Gaborone to airport transfers, visa guidance, family accommodation and a coordinator who stays with your case throughout, the logistics are planned so you can focus on getting well.
- Roughly 90 minutes from the runway
- Airport-to-hospital transfer arranged
- Visa-process guidance where needed
- Family & recovery-hospitality stays nearby
The Southern African catchment
At the airport centre of a region that travels for care
Across Southern Africa, complex specialist cases routinely leave the continent for South Africa, India and beyond. TEMCO sits inside the airport economic zone, on direct routes from the region's capitals — positioned to keep a share of that cross-border flow here, in Gaborone.
Direct-flight catchment
- Johannesburg
- Cape Town
- Lusaka
- Harare
- Addis Ababa
Indicative direct-flight catchment, roughly 90 minutes from Gaborone. Routes shown qualitatively, not to scale.
A large and growing regional market
Southern Africa's private and cross-border medical-tourism market runs to a substantial scale — a regional inbound opportunity in the low hundreds of millions of US dollars each year, growing steadily. TEMCO is built to earn a share of African cross-border referral flow that today leaves the continent.
Ninety minutes from the region's capitals
Direct flights connect Gaborone with Johannesburg, Cape Town, Lusaka, Harare and Addis Ababa — placing much of the region roughly a 90-minute flight from the hospital, at around half the travel cost of medical tourism to India or beyond.
A loop, not a one-way trip
Patients are treated in Gaborone and returned to their home clinician with a clear discharge summary and follow-up plan — cross-border referral as a continuous relationship, so the region's doctors can refer in with confidence.
A national health-export asset
Every inbound patient earns Botswana foreign exchange
When a patient flies in from Lusaka, Harare, Lubumbashi or Johannesburg, their treatment, their stay and their family's stay are paid for in foreign currency that enters Botswana. Specialist healthcare becomes an export — delivered at home, earning abroad — in the same way tourism or minerals earn for the country, but built on skill and standards that stay in the country.
Foreign patients, foreign currency
Treatment paid for by inbound patients brings foreign exchange into Botswana, rather than Batswana spending it abroad.
Spend beyond the bedside
Recovery hospitality, accommodation, transfers and the wider visit circulate further value into the local economy.
Skills that stay
A specialist workforce trained and retained in Botswana — the capability remains in the country long after each patient flies home.
One trip, recover here
More than a procedure — a full medical-tourism ecosystem
What draws inbound patients is not the operating theatre alone — it is the whole journey held together in one place. Treatment, rehabilitation, recovery hospitality and the family who travels with you, planned as a single arc so the trip from across the region is one journey, not several.
Specialist treatment
The procedure itself, delivered across the planned Centres of Excellence to the JCI accreditation pathway.
Rehabilitation & recovery medicine
Dedicated physiotherapy and post-surgical, post-oncology recovery programmes that carry you beyond the procedure.
Recovery hospitality & wellness
Airport-adjacent recovery hospitality, cosmetic and aesthetic care, and wellness — somewhere calm to recover before flying home.
Family close by
Accommodation and support for the companion who travels with you, because recovery is easier with someone familiar near.
Recovery & wellness
Care that continues after the procedure
Specialist treatment is one reason to travel; recovery is the other. Planned services support patients and their families through the full arc — a recognised pillar of the regional medical-tourism the hospital is built to serve.
Rehabilitation & recovery
Dedicated rehabilitation and recovery medicine — physiotherapy and post-surgical, post-oncology recovery programmes — to support the full journey, especially for patients who have travelled for specialist care.
Planned · Opening 2029Recovery hospitality & wellness
Comfortable, airport-adjacent recovery hospitality and wellness for patients and accompanying family — so the journey from across the region is one trip, with somewhere calm to recover before flying home.
Planned · Opening 2029Family & companion stays
Accommodation and support for the family member or companion who travels with you — recognising that recovery is easier with someone familiar nearby.
Planned · Opening 2029For patients here in Botswana too
TEMCO is built for Batswana as much as for the region. It widens specialist access at home — planned to welcome public-referral and medical-aid patients, not only a private few. The same accredited-pathway care that draws the region keeps Botswana's own complex cases in the country, closer to family and at lower cost than travelling abroad for the same treatment.
Raising the standard
Lifting the bar for healthcare across the region
An accredited-pathway hospital does more than treat its own patients. It builds capacity, trains specialists and sets a standard that lifts the whole sector — Botswana keeps more of its talent, and the region gains a benchmark to refer to.
A specialist training pipeline
Specialists trained and recruited over the operating period — building a clinical workforce that stays and teaches in Botswana.
Accreditation discipline
Working to the JCI accreditation pathway from the outset brings a measured standard of quality and patient safety — first in Botswana if achieved.
Jobs and skills
Hundreds of permanent clinical and support roles at full operation, and thousands of direct and indirect jobs over the decade — anchored at home.
Competition that raises the bar
Adding next-tier capability widens the pie and lifts the standard for Botswana healthcare as a whole, rather than simply duplicating what exists.
For referring clinicians
Refer the case that would otherwise leave the region
If you care for a patient whose next-tier procedure currently means a flight out of Southern Africa, TEMCO is a regional alternative — closer, and within an accredited-pathway setting. Refer clinician-to-clinician; your patient returns to your care.
For the cases that leave the region
TEMCO is built for the genuinely complex, next-tier cases that currently leave Southern Africa entirely — structural-heart intervention, complex electrophysiology, robotic-assisted surgery, two-linac radiation oncology. These are the cases we keep in the region. Your routine practice stays yours; the next tier comes home.
Clinician-to-clinician intake
Refer with a structured clinical summary and you will be dealt with directly by the relevant specialist team — diagnosis, imaging and history reviewed clinician-to-clinician, with a clear answer on whether TEMCO can help and what the pathway looks like.
Your patient returns to you
Cross-border referral is a loop, not a hand-off. Your patient is treated and returned to your care with a full discharge summary and a follow-up plan, so continuity of care stays with you.
Register your interest — Opening 2029
TEMCO is in development, with operations planned for 2029. Register your interest now — as a patient considering treatment, or a clinician building a referral pathway — and the coordination team will be in touch as services come online.
The information provided on this page is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified healthcare provider. Indicative cost estimates and care plans are provided on enquiry and are not a quotation or a guarantee of treatment. All services described are planned and subject to regulatory approval. TEMCO Specialised General Hospital is expected to commence operations in 2029.