Thabelo Ramatlapeng

Director of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Lesotho

Biography

Biography

PERSONAL DETAILS

NAME : THABELO RAMATLAPENG
SEX : FEMALE
MARITAL STATUS : MARRIED
PHYSICAL ADDRESS : QOATSANENG HA TSAUTSE CATHEDRAL AREA MASERU
POSTAL ADDRESS : BOX 745, MASERU 100
TELEPHONE : (+266) 22312111 (HOME)
(+266) 62851085 (CELL)
(+266) 51867303 (CELL)
E- MAIL : tramatlapeng@gmail.com
NATIONALITY : LESOTHO
PASSPORT NUMBER : DB 000544
LANGUAGE : FLUENT IN ENGLISH, SESOTHO & RUSSIAN

RESUME

Dr. Thabelo Ramatlapeng is a Public Health Specialist. She completed her medical training in 1979 at Kharkov Medical Institute in the then USSR, she later got her Master Degree in 1982 at Hadasssah School of Public Health in 1982.

Dr Ramatlapeng has worked in the health sector of Lesotho from 1983, where she worked as head of Disease control in the Ministry of Health. She was part of the health team that introduced Primary Health Care in Lesotho post Al-MA ATA. She held several positions in the Ministry of Health. In 1998 she was promoted to the position of Director General of Health Services the position she held until 2004 when she opted for early retirement.

In 2004 she worked for Lesotho Red Cross Society as its Secretary General until 2006. In 2007 she joined UNFPA and worked as SRH advisor until 2012. In 2015 she re-joined the Ministry of Health as Public Health Specialist to assist with the implementation of reforms

Regional Focus

Eastern and Southern Africa