Women's Health · Opening 2029
The Care a Woman Should Not Have to Fly For
Maternity and high-risk obstetrics, gynaecology and gynaecological cancer care, screening and fertility medicine, planned on one campus with neonatal intensive care in the same building. Opening 2029.
One campus, so her care stops being a series of trips
A woman in Maun with an abnormal cervical screening result waits for a referral, travels to Gaborone for colposcopy, and may travel again, often across a border, for radiation treatment. Her care runs over months and several cities, and her family carries the cost of every trip on top of the illness.
The Women's Health centre puts maternity and high-risk obstetrics, gynaecology, gynaecological cancer care and fertility medicine on the same campus, with the screening, the surgeon, the oncologist and the linear accelerator at one address. Neonatal intensive care sits in the same building as the delivery suite, so a mother in difficulty and a baby who arrives early are looked after by one team under one roof.
The pregnancy that turns dangerous finds the theatre and the neonatal unit down the same corridor.
What is planned for women here
Every service below is planned and subject to regulatory approval, and each is designed to sit within reach of the others, because distance between two parts of a woman's treatment turns an illness into a year of travelling.
Planned Services
- Maternity and obstetrics, including high-risk pregnancy care
- Neonatal intensive care in the same building as the delivery suite
- Gynaecological cancer care, with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation oncology on one campus
- Breast and cervical screening, diagnosis and treatment
- Gynaecological surgery, menopause and long-term women's medicine
- Fertility medicine for women and for men
What this means for you
If you are pregnant and something goes wrong, the theatre and the neonatal unit are down the corridor. If a screening result comes back abnormal, the colposcopy, the surgery, the radiation and the follow-up sit at one address instead of four. If you are travelling from elsewhere in the region, you make one trip, and your own doctor at home receives you back with a discharge summary and a follow-up plan.
A regional destination
Ninety minutes from most of the region
Gaborone is about ninety minutes in the air from the cities most of the region's patients travel out of today, and a woman who flies in for treatment is held to the same standard as a woman who lives here. Her family travels once, at a fraction of what a flight to another continent costs them, and the money she spends on her care stays inside southern Africa.
Talk to the clinical team
TEMCO is in development, with operations planned for 2029. If you are a woman planning her care, or a clinician who would refer one, 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. All services listed are planned and subject to regulatory approval. TEMCO Specialised General Hospital is expected to commence operations in 2029.