Bulawayo24 NEWS

Govt sends team to investigate corruption at Mpilo Hospital

2013 April 16 | 2698 Views

THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare has sent a team to investigate allegations of corruption and nepotism levelled against the principal tutor from Mpilo Central Hospital's School of Nursing.Mrs Vanzvai Majada was sent on three months unpaid leave recently after it was discovered that she was a...

by Staff reporter

Mpilo Hospital receives paediatric and maternity equipment worth $45 000

2013 April 10 | 1839 Views

MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo yesterday received state-of-the-art paediatric and maternity equipment worth more than $45 000 from ZimHealth Europe, a development that will boost service delivery at the institution. The donation comes as a contribution towards the re-equipping and refurbishment ...

by Staff reporter

Scandal rocks cash strapped Mpilo Hospital

2013 March 05 | 3988 Views

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...

by Staff reporter

Mpilo hospital appeal for help

2013 February 27 | 3876 Views

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...

by Health reporter

Mpilo,UBH in a deplorable state

2013 February 13 | 2696 Views

BULAWAYO’S main referral hospitals, Mpilo Central and the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH), are in a deplorable state that requires urgent intervention from the Government and development partners.This emerged during a tour of the two institutions by the Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial leadership yeste...

by Staff Reporter

Mpilo engages debt collectors

2013 February 12 | 1721 Views

ONE of the country's major referral hospitals, Mpilo Central Hospital is seeking the services of debt collectors in a bid to recover money from defaulters running into millions of United States dollars.Sources close to the institution say the institution is owed close to $8 million for services it p...

by Staff reporter

Mpilo, UBH hospitals to offer training facilities for student doctors

2013 February 05 | 2486 Views

THE Government will soon equip Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals in Bulawayo to enable the two institutions to offer training facilities for student doctors, the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Douglas Mombeshora, said.Speaking in Bulawayo recently, Dr Mombeshora ...

by Staff Reporter

Sangoma caught cutting patient's skin at Mpilo Hospital

2013 January 30 | 6727 Views

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...

by Staff reporter