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New machines for cancer treatment at Zimbabwe's major hospitals

he government says it is installing new cancer treatment machines in some of the country's major hospitals to address the challenges faced by the increasing number of cancer patients.The setting up of the machines will begin with Parirenyatwa and Mpilo hospitals to ease the burden on most cancer pat...

'Zimbabwe's hospitality was world class,' says Mi Casa

POPULAR South African house band, Mi Casa, who had their debut Zimbabwe performance at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) on Saturday said their Zimbabwean experience was one of the most amazing for them. The group described Zimbabwe's hospitality as world class.In a tweet from t...

Surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect remains hospitalised in serious condition

Boston - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing remains hospitalised in serious condition under heavy guard - apparently in no shape to be interrogated - as investigators try to establish the motive for the deadly attack and the scope of the plot.People across the Boston area breathed ...

Hospital detains patients over hospital bills

MASVINGO General Hospital is allegedly detaining patients who fail to settle their hospital bills in a bid to force them to pay.Scores of patients admitted to the referral hospital have suffered the humiliation of being held "captive" after the doctors have discharged them, a practice Masvingo provi...

Hospital battles to recover $100m from patients, engages debt collectors

HARARE Central Hospital is battling to recover $10 million owed by patients who received treatment from the health facility on credit and has since engaged debt collectors to recover their dues.In an interview with NewsDay, Harare Hospital's clinical director George Vera said they were failing to co...

Enos Nkala discharged from hospital

Enos Nkala, the former Home Affairs and Defence minister, has been discharged from Bulawayo's Mater Dei Hospital where he had been admitted for more than three weeks after he complained of kidney and heart problems.Nkala's wife Thandiwe told confirmed yesterday her husband was discharged on Saturda...

Mandela discharged from hospital

Johannesburg - Former South Africa president Nelson Mandela has been discharged after spending nine days in hospital, the presidency said on Saturday."Former president Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital today, April 6, following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condi...

Mandela's family visits him in hospital

Johannesburg - Former South African president Nelson Mandela is still in hospital with pneumonia, with no significant change in his condition, the SA presidency says."There is no significant change in his condition since the update issued last night [Sunday]," spokesperson Mac Maharaj said in a sta...

Mugabe speaks to Nkala in hospital

FORMER Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF founder member, Enos Nkala, who is admitted at a local private hospital, on Good Friday got to speak to an old friend - President Mugabe.Nkala, who was admitted last Wednesday evening for kidney and heart-related complications, got to speak to President Mugabe ove...

Nelson Mandela hospitalised again

Johannesburg - Former president Nelson Mandela has been re-admitted to an undisclosed hospital, the presidency said on Thursday morning.He was hospitalised just before midnight on Wednesday due to a recurrence of his lung infection, spokesperson Mac Maharaj said in a statement."Doctors are attending...

Hospital patients abandoned my families up to 3 decades

BULAWAYO's Ingutsheni Central Hospital is overwhelmed with patients that have long been discharged after treatment as their relatives do not want to collect them.Hospital authorities on Friday said some of the patients have been staying there since 1980s.The general medical officer for the hospital,...

Zimbabwe eliminates hospital fees for rural elderly, children

Zimbabwe has an adequate pool of resources to allow elimination of user fees for pregnant women, children under five and those over 65 in rural clinics, a government minister has said.Henry Madzorera, the Health and Child Welfare minister, said government has enforced a policy scrapping user fees, ...

Polling officers hospitalised due to the indelible ink used in voting

Some Zimbabwe Electoral Commission polling officers were hospitalised yesterday after reacting to the indelible ink used during the referendum at the weekend. ZEC chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau confirmed during a media briefing in Harare that some polling officers from centres in Harare and Masvi...

Mandela released from hospital

Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital, says the conutry's presidency."Nelson Mandela has this afternoon [on Sunday] returned to his Johannesburg home following a successful medical examination at a Pretoria hospital," spokesperson Mac Maharaj said in a state...

Mandela hospitalised

Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital for a scheduled check-up, the South African presidency says.Doctors are conducting tests and have so far indicated that there is no reason for any alarm, the presidency said on its website.The 94-year-old spent 18 days in ho...

Saruwaka sources over US$700 000 for upgrading Bonda Mission hospital

Trevor Saruwaka, the MP for Mutasa Central sourced over US$700 000 for the upgrading Bonda Mission hospital and equipping it with new machinery.The hospital run by the Anglican Church is a referral hospital for Mutasa and other parts of Manicaland and can accommodate up to 200 patients including mat...

Scandal rocks cash strapped Mpilo Hospital

Cash-strapped Mpilo Central Hospital could have been fleeced of millions of dollars through a suspected well-orchestrated scam in which fake receipts were issued to patients and service providers by the accounts department working in cahoots with others since dollarisation of the economy in 2009. &n...

CIO boss rushed to hospital, operated on

THE Director-General of the Central Intelligence Organisation, Happyton Bonyongwe, was on Friday rushed to St Annes Hospital where he was admitted and operated on after suffering from gastroenteritis upon arrival from Equatorial Guinea where he had accompanied President Robert Mugabe last week.Gast...

Queen Elizabeth admitted to hospital

Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been admitted to hospital in London after experiencing symptoms of gastroenteritis, Buckingham Palace said today. All official engagements for this week will be either postponed or cancelled as a precaution, the Palace added. Her Majesty, who is 86, is expected to stay ...

Mpilo hospital appeal for help

Management at Mpilo Central Hospital are appealing to Zimbabweans at home and abroad to step in and help revive the institution.The hospital was once a symbol of hope to millions of Zimbabweans in Matebeleland and the Midlands provinces. However over the years, standards have deteriorated so much t...

Sipepa-Nkomo hospitalised, few weeks after burying his brother

Water Resources and Development minister Samuel Sipepa-Nkomo has been hospitalised at the Avenues Clinic from yet an unknown ailment.Nkomo was admitted at the upmarket hospital on Monday, which was his 69th birthday.Nkomo's wife Roslyn was at the Avenues Clinic yesterday monitoring her husband's hea...

Hospital engages debt collectors to recover money owed by patients

GWERU Provincial Hospital has enlisted the services of debt collectors in an effort to recover more than $500 000 it is owed by patients, an official has said.In an interview yesterday, the hospital's medical superintendent, Dr Fabian Mashingaidze said the majority of patients who owed the health in...

Patient disappears from hospital

AN 84-year-old hypertension patient disappeared from Gwanda Provincial Hospital on Sunday where he had been admitted.Mr Amos Ndlovu from Matshetshe area under Chief Masuku disappeared from the hospital premises at around 4am on Sunday, which has left his relatives questioning security at the hospita...

Sangoma caught cutting patient's skin at Mpilo Hospital

In a bizarre incident, a sangoma was caught treating a patient at Mpilo Centra Hospital. The sangoma was clad in civilian attire.The alleged incident occurred on Thursday last week at a female ward. According to sources, the sangoma identified as Dumisani Mhlanga undertook the exercise at the insti...

Robert Mugabe University, Hospital on the cards

THE First Family has earmarked massive infrastructure projects including a university and hospital on the land it allegedly recently grabbed from Interfresh's Mazowe Citrus Estate, highly-placed sources have said.Sources said Chinese contractors have already started pegging land in preparation for t...

Hospitals detain mothers over maternity fees

PUBLIC hospitals and clinics continue to detain mothers and deny them their babies' birth confirmation records over maternity fees despite the scrapping of the charges by the Government, a survey has revealed.According to Justice for Children Trust, a children's rights organisation, some health in...

Man sues Mater Dei Hospital after a botched surgery

A Bulawayo man who was allegedly left partially disabled and forced into early retirement after an operation at Mater Dei Hospital last year, has dragged the health institution to court.Mr Nelson Mutobaya (61), a former sales manager at Missing Link, is accusing the Catholic-run health institution o...