Botswana’s Vice President Slumber Tsogwane visits Mwale City in Butere

Tsogwane was accompanied by Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and enterprise development Simon Chelugui.

“We hosted HE Slumber Tsogwane, the Vice President (VP) of Botswana and his delegation at Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) in Butere Sub County of Kakamega County in Kenya.

“The VP was on a benchmarking tour of MMTC. He was accompanied by more than a dozen top government officials from Botswana and Kenya, including Botswana's foreign minister Hon. Lemogang Kwape, and Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and enterprise development Hon. Simon Chelugui,” MMTC said in a press statement. 

Tsogwane was in Kenya for the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly which will take place from 5 to 9 June 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Julius Mwale met President Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi of Botswana and discussed the expansion of Hamptons Hospital to the South African country. 

During the discussions, Masisi identified medical tourism as one of the prospective areas of collaboration with the MMTC-based Hamptons Hospital.

The Monday visit followed a benchmarking tour last month by a delegation from the Finance Ministry of Botswana at MMTC.

Mwale City is centered around Hamptons Hospital which opened in 2019.

Kakamega County residents with NHIF are treated without paying extra co-payment charges.