# Ministry of Health, Lesotho

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## TL;DR

Lesotho's health ministry. The health minister said in 2025 that Lesotho pays for people with cancer to be treated in Bloemfontein, South Africa, including radiotherapy, at about 250,000 maloti a patient.

## Summary

The Namibian's investigative unit reported in March 2025 that the health minister, Selibe Mochoboroane, said Lesotho pays M250,000 per patient for cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and that the ministry's principal secretary said in a June 2024 affidavit, in a dispute over a tender for a cancer treatment facility, that the treatment debt to South African hospitals stood at M148 million and had not been paid. Chemotherapy is given in Lesotho at the Senkatana Oncology Clinic in Maseru. The ministry's website (health.gov.ls) did not answer in November 2026. The coordinates are an approximate city point for Maseru.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: MoH Lesotho
- City: Maseru, LS
- Type: government

## Sources

- The Namibian: Lesotho's cancer burden and its soaring costs (March 2025): https://investigations.namibian.com.na/lesothos-cancer-burden-and-its-soaring-costs/

## Connected records

- institutions: [Action Against Cancer Association](https://onco.cc/institutions/action-against-cancer-lesotho/), [Senkatana Oncology Clinic](https://onco.cc/institutions/senkatana-oncology-clinic/)

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