Health Legislation

The National Health Quality Standards - "Health Care Organizational Management" provide comprehensive guidelines for managing healthcare organizations in Botswana, covering areas such as governance, resource management, leadership, quality improvement, and compliance with regulatory standards to ensure effective and efficient delivery of healthcare services.

The "National Health Quality Standards - Diagnostic, Care, and Treatment Support Services" establish guidelines and standards for the provision of diagnostic services, patient care, and treatment support in Botswana.

These guidelines establish an Essential Drug List of Botswana of 2012 and provide the requirements regarding the levels of availability across health care providers.

This law establishes a social security system aiming at protecting the workers and their family, as well as other categories of the population against the risks and hazards inherent in work and life. This law was later amended by Law n°14-2023.

The law provides rights and protective measures for indigenous populations.

This Decree amends decree no. 2007- 207 of 2 April 2007 creating the computerized and secure national secure national identity card.

This Act regulates and controls the practice of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and allied health professions, and provides for matters connected and associated therewith.

This law provides for the National Order of doctors and specifies its mandate and operating modes.

This law provides for the National Order of Pharmacists and specifies its mandate and operating modes.

This Act provides provisions on the registration of persons resident in Botswana and provides for matters incidental thereto.

The Law provides for the family Code.

This Act consolidates and amends the law relating to the registration of births and deaths in Botswana.

The Statistics Act establishes a body corporate to be known as Statistics Botswana; requires that official statistics be produced by means of a process that is guided by the National Statistical System; and provides principles for the production and dissemination of official statistics and for matters incidental thereto.

This Act empowers the President of Botswana to make emergency regulations whenever an emergency proclamation is in force. It also specifies the matters which may be provided for in emergency regulations; provides the duration of emergency regulations, and provides for the matters incidental thereto or connected therewith.

The Constitution of Botswana was first adopted in 1966 and reviewed in 2006. It consists of 127 articles that are grouped into 9 chapters. The articles of the Constitution address a large number of issues such as the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, citizenship rights, the fundamental principles of the state and institutional arrangements.

The Law governs the nationality regime.

This document establishes a list of rights and responsibilities of the users of health services in Botswana.