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Baylor College of Medicine honors outstanding alumni
Baylor College of Medicine honored outstanding alumni and faculty at the 2021 Alumni Awards Ceremony, held virtually on April 14.
Dr. Major Bradshaw received the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his career dedicated to medicine and medical education, at home and abroad. A graduate of Baylor College of Medicine, Bradshaw completed training at Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health before returning to Baylor, where he held progressive leadership roles in education while maintaining a practice in infectious diseases. In 2006, Bradshaw became the founding dean of the University of Botswana School of Medicine, a partnership with Baylor. In this role, he was influential in the efforts to stop the “brain drain” of bright young physicians leaving Africa for medical careers elsewhere.
1st February 2021
It has been alleged to
Sunday Standard that temporary staff at the COVID-19 laboratory are working under sweatshop conditions and under an unusually autocratic supervision by a director.
When the pandemic hit Botswana last year, a dedicated lab was set up at the National Health Laboratory, which is across the road from and is a department under the Princess Marina Referral Hospital. Important paperwork (in the form of a contract of employment) was skipped when temporary staff (being phlebotomists and data entry clerks) was hurriedly engaged. That oversight is now causing a lot of headache for temporary staff which is complaining about a whole slew of Employment Act violations.