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MPs get chance to bootlick Mnangagwa
LEGISLATORS with a penchant for praise-singing leaders now have a chance to pay tribute to President Emmerson Mnangagwa after Mutasa South MP Irene Zindi (Zanu PF) yesterday gave notice to move a moti...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 13:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dead minister repatriation commences
THE repatriation of the late Health and Child Care deputy minister Aldrin Musiiwa's body, who collapsed and died in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday while on government business, is set to begin after a pos...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt welcomes scientifically based healthcare tariffs proposal
Deputy Health and Childcare Minister Aldrin Musiiwa has commended the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) and the Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZiMA) for pursuing a scientifically ba...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Mugabe in Victoria Falls for WHO conference
PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived in Victoria Falls yesterday ahead of the opening ceremony of the 67th World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa Conference, which opens today and runs unti...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legislator Majome blasts govt over emergency medical treatment
Harare West legislator Jessie Majome has accused government of having no plans to ensure that no one is denied access to medical treatment."This inept Govt has no clear plan to ensure that no ...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Prophets, healers face ban in Zimbabwe
PROPHETS, pastors, traditionalists and faith healers will soon be banned from working without a practising certificate from the Traditional Medical Practitioners Council, Health and Child Care Deputy ...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 12:10hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe has no capacity to train psychiatric doctors
THE country has no capacity to train psychiatric doctors at a time when the number of people suffering from mental illness is on the increase, the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Aldr...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 14:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lupane to get $55m Chinese hospital
Government has secured $55 million from China to construct a provincial hospital in Matabeleland North capital Lupane, Health and Child Care deputy minister Aldrin Musiiwa ...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Alice Dube
HIV high among married couples
Married couples have been cited as a group that has high new HIV infections.Health and Child Care deputy minister Aldrin Musiiwa said this during commemorations of World Condom Day in Harare y...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 09:59hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwe doctors moot fresh strike
DOCTORS at public hospitals have threatened to down tools on Wednesday in protest over government's failure to honour its pledge to appoint junior doctors and improve their conditions of service....Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Science education - bitter, sweet returns
Whilst enough scorn and ridicule has been peddled on policy inconsistencies in the country, parallels can be drawn from the recent hike in the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) medical students' fees hike, ...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Rungano Dzikira
Doctors fleece health insurers
Private doctors are reportedly "over treating" their patients by ordering unnecessary procedures like laboratory tests, x-rays and scans to milk health insurers. This is despite the fact that ...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 07:57hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Parirenyatwa calls for joint partnerships to improve health services
Overcoming the country's economic challenges requires the support and contribution of all sectors of the economy, Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa told the Association of Health Funde...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 15:32hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
'Zanu-PF members must stop using social media'
MEMBERS of the ruling Zanu-PF must stop using social media as it is a platform for regime change purveyors out to fight the Government and destabilise the country, a senior party official has said. ...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Peter Matika and Lynnia Ndlovu
Zimbabwe: Adopting a one health approach to fighting antimicrobial resistance
Harare - Antimicrobials, including antibiotics, antifungal, antimalarial and antiviral drugs, play a very critical role in combating infectious diseases in both human and veterinary medicine. Howe...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 10:57hrs | | by Sithembile Siziba
Doctors, medical aid row rages on
Private doctors and other service providers have resolved to postpone the June 30 deadline for accepting medical aid cards only if the Government proceeds to revoke operating licences for all defaulti...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Medical aid societies risk lawsuits
MEDICAL aid societies risk litigation from patients if doctors stop accepting health insurance cards and demand cash upfront with effect from July 1. It is estimated that about 1,2 million Zimbabweans...Published: 18 Jun 2016 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Pamela Shumba
Govt decentralizing laboratory services - deputy health minister
Deputy Minister of health and Child care Aldrin Musiiwa has said the government is working on decentrilising the laboritary ervices in the country through the point of care machines in rural health ce...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 07:54hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Mudzuri questions govt policy on patients who owe health institutions
The MDC-T MP Elias Mudzuri has asked the deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Aldrin Musiiwa on what is the policy of government on patients who fail to settle their bills which has seen some of t...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 07:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
99% of pregnant women presenting for antenatal clinic accepting to test
Deputy Minister of health and Child care Aldrin Musiiwa has said in the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV programme, acceptance for HIV testing is very high with 99% of pregnant women ...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
UZ able to train cancer diagnosers - Deputy minister
Deputy Minister of health and Child care Aldrin Musiiwa has told parliament that the University of Zimbabwe is capable of training Histopathologists who among other things are the experts who diagonos...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 15:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Govt plans to build Health centre in Dzvairo Village
Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Aldrin Musiiwa has said the government is planning to construct a health centre in Dzvairo village in Rusape.The deputy minister was speaking in parlia...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Ministry allays fears on medical aid
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care has allayed fears that doctors will demand cash upfront from patients on medical aid saying the government will make sure that medical aid societies pay service p...Published: 24 May 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
CIMAS wins licence case
The High Court has barred Government from cancelling CIMAS Medical Aid Society's operating licence pending finalisation of its dispute with Corporate 24 Group of Hospitals. Justice Novembe...Published: 17 May 2016 at 07:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cimas licence on the line
Cimas yesterday defied a seven-day Government ultimatum to pay health service providers' claims and instead, turned to the High Court seeking an interdict to stop cancellation of its operating licence...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
CIMAS allays closure fears
Cimas Medical Aid Society says it is not in danger of losing its operating licence, dismissing media reports to the contrary. A local weekly on Sunday reported that government had given th...Published: 11 May 2016 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cimas to lose operating licence
GOVERNMENT has given Cimas Medical Aid Society a seven-day ultimatum to honour all outstanding claims or lose its licence.Sunday Mail reported that Cimas has more than 30 000 members, and has ...Published: 08 May 2016 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Livingstone Marufu
'No civil servant shall be laid off'
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira yesterday assured workers that no employees will be laid off as the government rationalises the country's public service establishme...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:28hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Junior doctors strike ends
The impasse between the government and the junior medical doctors over contracts has been resolved.All doctors who had embarked on industrial action have been advised to go back to work....Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 17:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
St Anne's Hospital in Harare shuts down
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has expressed concern over the closure of Harare's privately-owned St Anne's Hospital.The ministry is however optimistic that the owners of the building '...Published: 22 Mar 2016 at 20:23hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai hits retirement age
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai celebrated his 64th birthday yesterday in a private ceremony that sharply contrasted with the lavish 92nd birthday bash thrown by President Robert Mugabe in th...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa defends Grace Mugabe
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday defended the distribution of agricultural equipment by First Lady, Amai Grace Mugabe saying there was nothing amiss in what she was doing.He was res...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 06:02hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Govt plans to construct district hospital in Mbire
Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Aldrin Musiiwa' has said the Ministry has plans to construct a district hospital in Mbire and a site has already been identified at Mushumbi pool."A...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 06:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Plumtree Hospital upgraded
Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Aldrin Musiiwa has said Plumtree Hospital was upgraded to its present status of the standard district hospital.The deputy Minister said under the Wo...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 08:16hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Pregnant women not forced to bring delivery equipment - Musiiwa
Deputy minister of Health and Child Care Aldrin Musiiwa has said it was not Government policy that all pregnant women delivering at state health institutions should bring their items when they c...Published: 24 Sep 2015 at 11:16hrs | 2 | by Thobekile Zhou
Mugabe battles Zanu-PF factions
A rattled President Robert Mugabe - reeling from this week's dramatic re-entry into national politics by former Vice President Joice Mujuru, and severely weakened by his advanced age as well as Zanu-P...Published: 13 Sep 2015 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appoints 14 new ministers
President Mugabe has appointed 14 new ministers, who are expected to take the oath of office at a ceremony to be held at State House in Harare today, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Mi...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Hebert Zharare and Innocent Ruwende
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