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| PRINCIPAL
SECRETARY |
 Principal
Secretaries are the Chief accounting officers of their line
Ministries. This is an enormous job for a Ministry as large
as the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare. The portfolio of
the Principal Secretary has expanded because of the large
number of stakeholders, particularly those supporting the
fight against the HIV pandemic and those interested in
forging public/ private partnerships with the Ministry. In
addition to representing the Ministry in both international
and national forums, committees and Boards the, Principal
Secretary for Health & Social Welfare is also the chief
negotiator with the development partners of the Ministry and
parliament for annual budget allocations.
Mr Teleko Ramotsoari was born in Lesobeng in the District of
Thaba Tseka in 1955. He joined the Ministry of Health &
Social Welfare as Principal Secretary in April 2003. Mr
Ramotsoari graduated in BA economics at the National
University of Lesotho in 1980. In 1984, after working as an
assistant economic planner in the Ministry of Agriculture he
obtained an MA Development Management from Beacon college in
Washington DC.
Mr Ramotsoari has worked extensively in the Agricultural
sector where he succeeded to rise to the level of Director
for the Economics and Marketing Department and became
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Development Planning
in 2001, until 2003 when he joined the Ministry of Health.
Key activities undertaken during Mr Ramotsoari’s time in the
Ministry of Health & Social Welfare include the development
of a sector policy and strategic plan, forging a memorandum
of understanding with CHAL, piloting the decentralization
process in three districts and other important initiatives
being implemented under the Health Sector Reform Programme.
For Mr Ramotsoari the biggest challenge facing the country
and the health sector in particular is to ensure that all
the resources that have been mobilized to combat the impact
of HIV/AIDS are used effectively and efficiently so that the
benefit for all those who are living with the diseases as
well as those who are affected, specifically the orphans is
maximized.
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