Travelling from Botswana
ENT and head & neck care for patients from Botswana
Your doctor in Botswana sends the referral and scans securely. The rooms then help you plan the practical side, including medical aid paperwork and travel, before your in-person consultation at Netcare Milpark or, for children, Netcare Mulbarton.
Medical aid & funders
The practice is a recognised provider for the Pula Medical Aid Fund and can supply the clinical documents that schemes such as Bomaid ask for when considering pre-authorisation.
Pula Medical Aid Fund
Recognised provider for Pula Medical Aid Fund (Pr No. 227978). Patients remain solely responsible for obtaining pre-authorisation and confirming benefit limits directly with their scheme or insurer before consultation or travel.
Botswana Medical Aid Society (Bomaid)
Some benefit options may include cover for referral to South African private hospitals, subject to the scheme's pre-authorisation rules. Confirm your option's cover with Bomaid directly.
Travel & arrival
- Departing from
- Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, Gaborone
- Arriving at
- Lanseria International Airport or O.R. Tambo International Airport
- Hospital
- Netcare Milpark Hospital, Parktown West (approx. 45 minutes by road from O.R. Tambo; 35 minutes from Lanseria)
Scheduled flights between Gaborone and Johannesburg take approximately one hour. Road travel via the Tlokweng or Ramatlabama border posts is also common for scheduled admissions.
Your records & POPIA
Sending medical records from Botswana to a practice in South Africa is a cross-border transfer of personal information, which may also be regulated by the data protection law of Botswana. The secure referral portal explains which information is transferred, and where it is processed, and asks for explicit consent before anything is submitted.
- 01 Your doctor uploads the referral and imaging
- 02 Travel planning call (logistics only)
- 03 Funder documents supplied on request
- 04 Consultation in person in Johannesburg
Conditions & treatments