About Serenity Wellness
Botswana is considered an upper middle-income country in Africa with a population of slightly over 2.4 million. (6) The health system is organized hierarchically, with national referral hospitals at the top and health posts at the bottom. The country’s mental health policy was developed in 2003 to provide a framework for the incorporation of the mental health programme into general healthcare services. (7) Psychiatric patients are often treated at all levels of the health system, but their first contact with mental health services is usually at the primary care level and mostly with psychiatric nurses.
Sbrana Psychiatric Hospital is only national referral psychiatric hospital, and was officially opened in 2010. Most psychiatrists in Botswana are based at this hospital, which has a bed capacity of 300. In 2020, were only 11 psychiatrists in the country, of which five were academics, three in private practice and the rest in public service.
Our Core Values
• To Meet a Need - To work toward recovery of health and quality of life for the people we serve
• To Lead - To continually seek and create more effective ways to serve clients
• To Care -To employ the highest standards of professionalism, with compassion, at all times
• To Respect - To recognize and respond to the human dignity of every person
Our Guiding Princimples
• Quality - We will meet professional standards in our field and continuously improve all aspects of our work.
• Integrity - We will conduct ourselves in an ethical, honest, and forthright manner.
• Innovation - We will use the expertise of our staff, as well as the latest scientific advancements, to create a system that is a model for others.
• Learning - We will enhance professional knowledge and skills through inquiry, teaching, learning, and research.