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Doctors and substance abuse in Zimbabwe

The story of Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, now infamously known as the Mpilo fake doctor, offers a striking glimpse into the fragile boundaries between perception and reality in Zimbabwe's medical profession. Vanhuvaone posed as a doctor for …

Published: 22 Sep 2025 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter

Schools in Zimbabwe struggle as BEAM funds remain unpaid

Schools across Zimbabwe are facing a financial crisis as the government continues to delay Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) disbursements, a programme meant to cover fees for vulnerable learners.Minister of Public Service, Labour a…

Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors continue to leave

Zimbabwe's healthcare system is under strain as medical doctors continue to leave the country for better opportunities abroad, affecting service delivery, particularly in rural areas, government officials have warned.Deputy Minister of Hea…

Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ingutsheni faces critical psychiatrist shortage

Zimbabwe's largest psychiatric facility, Ingutsheni Central Hospital, is struggling to cope with a severe shortage of psychiatrists, leaving just two doctors to care for over 650 inpatients and thousands of outpatients every month.The 708-…

Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:22hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter

Doctors urge Mnangagwa to launch Commission of Inquiry into health sector

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the state of the country's public health sector following his recent visits to Parirenyatwa a…

Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:14hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter

Botswana doctors go on strike

A growing dispute between the Botswana government and the Botswana Doctors Union (BDU) has led to widespread disruptions in emergency healthcare services, with numerous doctors across the country reportedly failing to report for emergency …

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:06hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe hospital rocked by kickback scandal involving nurses and doctors

New details have emerged in a kickback scandal at Masvingo Provincial Hospital (MPH), where sources allege that nurses are receiving US$5 for every patient they refer to private clinics for services that are, in many cases, available at th…

Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 14:47hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors turn screws on govt

Human rights doctors have intensified their call for transparency from the Zimbabwean government regarding the use of revenue generated from the sugar tax. The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has pressed authoritie…

Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:08hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter

Doctors demand transparency from Mthuli Ncube on sugar tax revenue

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has called on Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to provide detailed accounts of the government's sugar tax revenue and its utilization.In a letter dated November 21, 2024, ZADHR, thr…

Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 15:15hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses milking patients through syndicates

The Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe is taking stern action against laboratory professionals who are collaborating with health workers in public institutions to coerce patients into seeking servi…

Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:25hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter

Doctors accuse councils of profiteering

THE Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association (MDPPZA) has accused local authorities of profiteering by charging exorbitant fees to medical practitioners.Speaking to NewsDay, MDPPZA president Johannes Marisa expresse…

Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:16hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

PHOTOS: Eye surgeries...army doctors step in

In a groundbreaking display of compassion and commitment to the well-being of its citizens, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has embarked on a noble mission, offering free eye cataract surgeries in the Midlands Province. This extraordinary…

Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:34hrs | 32 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses to undergo training in Zanu-PF ideology

Zimbabwe public hospital doctors and nurses are set to enrol at the Hebert Chitepo School of Ideology which was ostensibly opened to teach citizens as well as re-align them to the ideals of the country's liberation struggle.The college has…

Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 22:08hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt increases specialists at Mpilo Hospital

ACTING President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has said Government has increased the number of  specialist doctors working at public hospitals with Mpilo Central Hospital having 74 percent of the required specialists up 54 percent in 2021.D…

Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Doctor extorts US$350 from accident victim

A Chitungwiza Central Hospital medical doctor is facing disciplinary charges on allegations of attempting to extort US$350 from a parent of a girl who was one of the learners injured in a road traffic accident on Wednesday along the Harare…

Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter

Mpilo junior doctors move into new quarters

JUNIOR doctors in Bulawayo have moved into reconstructed Mpilo Central Hospital residence quarters which were destroyed by fire, a development that is expected to improve the delivery of health services at the institution.The doctors yeste…

Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Mpilo doctors' quarters await commissioning by ...

THE construction of Mpilo Central Hospital doctors' quarters is now complete and will be commissioned before the end of the year.Government was renovating three apartment buildings housing doctors at the referral hospital after a series of…

Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa pledges to improve doctors' salaries

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the Government will improve remuneration and conditions of service for medical practitioners so that their skills are retained in the country.Writing in his weekly column published in this newspaper, President …

Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:37hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

All Zimbabwe qualified health professionals recruited

ALL qualified health professionals seeking employment in the public sector have been hired, giving that group a zero unemployment rate as the Health Services Board (HSB) acts to upgrade the public health services.Since the advent of the Se…

Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Court doctors its order to prejudice Sikhala, claims Bhamu

OPPOSITION MP Job Sikhala's lawyer Jeremiah Bhamu has accused the court of doctoring its order to prejudice his clients.Bhamu made the claim after magistrate Taurai Manuwere dismissed an application to have deputy prosecutor-general Michae…

Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:24hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses endorse strike

SALARY talks between government and its restive workers ended in a deadlock yesterday ahead of a full-blown strike action by health professionals and teachers beginning Monday.It has emerged that civil servants rejected a 100% salary incre…

Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter

Doctors want share in medical facilities

Medical practitioners are lobbying the government to give doctors 51% shareholding at medical facilities in order to allow fair practice in the medical sector.This came to light after there was an increase in the number of ill-treatment co…

Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:24hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Health financing tops doctors' indaba

PRIVATE medical practitioners drawn from across the country will this weekend meet in Mutare for their annual conference to discuss health financing, and the possibility of a fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.The conference will be held …

Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter

Doctors team up to provide free health services

LOCAL Doctors are complementing the government's drive to enhance access to health care, with a free medical outreach programme targeting vulnerable communities in Bulawayo.91-year old Gogo Esnath Mulauzi has been residing at Sidojiwe flat…

Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 14:59hrs | 235 | by ZBC

'Chiwenga threatens Marry's doctors'

VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga is reportedly threatening medical doctors against releasing an affidavit for his estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa, who is seeking postponement of her cases at the courts due to poor healt…

Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:46hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter

Doctors profiteer from COVID-19 patients

SOME medical practitioners in collusion with private health facilities are reportedly reaping off COVID-19 patients by charging extortionate fees for treatment, NewsDay reported.This followed reports that some health institutions in Harare…

Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

OK rescues distressed Mpilo Hospital doctors

LEADING retailer OK Zimbabwe has donated grocery vouchers worth $50 000 to each of the over 30 Mpilo Central Hospital doctors whose property was destroyed when their block of flats recently went up in smoke.The fire, believed to have been …

Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Doctors rally behind Mpilo fire victims

Private medical practitioners under the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe association (MDPPZa) have started mobilising resources to assist doctors whose residence quarters were burned down at Mpilo Central Hospital last …

Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:49hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

Nick Mangwana and the Medical Assassins, Did he mean any harm?

The past few days social media was awash with the news of the Permanent Secretary of Information Ndavaningi Mangwana's statement on the Medical assassins. Many sort to accuse Nick for alleging that there are some medical assassins in our m…

Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 19:53hrs | 22 | by Dr Masimba Masimba

Ndavaningi Mangwana must just resign

IT is sad that Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana has decided to hide from the truth that our health sector is in the intensive care unit, therefore, it can no longer assist people.Zanu-PF always blame everyone else except itself. F…

Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:01hrs | 23 | by Ranga Chitore

Furore over govt claims of killer doctors

DOCTORS yesterday reacted with alarm and anger over allegations by Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana that some medical practitioners were deliberately killing Zanu-PF politicians and hiding behind the COVID-19 pandemic.Ministers Si…

Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:38hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean doctors deliberately killing politicians in hospitals?

THE Permanent Secretary of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana, has said there are theories suggesting that some professional doctors are deliberately killing political players.He made the remarks on Twitter aft…

Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 10:31hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Are Zimbabwean doctors now too cowed to speak?

WE are truly apologetic for the chain of events that have taken place over the past few months and we hope that you will have a kind heart to allow the rest of the students to return to class and finish their studies and serve the communit…

Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe facing shortage of psychiatrists

ZIMBABWE needs to recruit more psychiatrists to deal divisively with the mental health challenges facing most citizens.Recent statistics showed that the country, with a population of over 14 million, has less than 30 qualified psychiatrist…

Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:40hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter

'General Chiwenga defeated us' Doctor says

A Zimbabwean doctor has confessed that they were defeated by the Vice President in charge of the Ministry of Health and were forced to apologise for engaging in a long strike that crippled the health sector. Posting on Twitter Dr T Stanzo …

Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 11:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

FULL TEXT: ZCTU blasts General Chiwenga's move

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has learnt with dismay moves by the government to enlist into the army all graduating junior doctors before they could be employed by the government.Reports indicated that a letter dated Septemb…

Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 16:56hrs | 2 | by ZCTU

Zimbabwe's striking doctors dig in

Public hospital doctors have vowed to continue with their strike, which started on Tuesday this week, despite the government's move to ban all forms of industrial action.Cabinet on Tuesday announced its proposal to include doctors on the e…

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter

Mrs Mnangagwa vows to send health practitioners' requests to Govt

Health and Child Care Ambassador, First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday pledged to forward requests by medical practitioners and local leadership to relevant authorities for Glenview Polyclinic to be upgraded to a referral district hospit…

Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Furore over unemployed doctors

The government has been accused of failing to deploy doctors that qualified in April despite a huge shortage of the health professionals.Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors deploying Association (ZHDA) president Peter Magombeyi said the government h…

Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:27hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses strike in 14 days

Doctors and nurses have issued a 14-day notice to go on strike, saying health workers have had enough of austerity measures.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube last year introduced austerity measures in a bid to arrest the economic decline, whic…

Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 12:31hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors make fresh demands

THE Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) has appealed to the Health Services Board (HSB) for better conditions of service saying inflation has eroded their salaries.In a letter addressed to the HSB, ZHDA Secretary General, Dr Mtha…

Published: 14 May 2019 at 08:20hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa must urgently solve doctor's grievances

Government should seriously look at concerns raised by senior doctors over the dire situation at the country's public hospitals.Yesterday, the senior doctors took their grievances to the street as they have realised it is the only way to d…

Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 14:29hrs | 17 | by Editorial - Daily News

Chiwenga, doctors showdown.2 looms

Another showdown is looming between doctors and government as the Health ministry has not yet addressed doctors' demands agreed in the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) which saw the medical practitioners ending their industrial action…

Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 11:58hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagnwa dismisses fake reports on tracking doctors and lawyers

Government has dismissed as false and misleading reports in the private media claiming President Mnangagwa threatened to track down lawyers who represented rioters and doctors who treated people who were injured during the MDC-Alliance ins…

Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

No pay for striking doctors

Government has said it will not pay doctors for the days they were absent at their work stations during the 40-day long industrial action which started early in December and ended at the start of last month.The Heath Services Board told th…

Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 13:29hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

Student doctors in Diaspora to register in Zimbabwe

The Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) has urged those studying medicine and dentistry abroad to register with the MDPCZ such that they can undertake internship in Zimbabwe.In a statement, MDPCS said registration …

Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:23hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter

Doctors in Zimbabwe train for seven years

Doctors in Zimbabwe train for seven years, including the two years of internship also known as housemanship, hence those calling themselves junior doctors are in fact, still students, the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche) has …

Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 23:59hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter

Threats and blackmail: The real story behind the doctors' return to wards

They stood their ground against government threats, but it took coercion from one of their own to end the junior doctors' 40-day strike.At one time they were fired by Vice-President Constantino Guveya Chiwenga after refusing to return to w…

Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | 17 | by Everson Mushava

Mnangagwa's wife broke the ice, not the strike - doctors

Zimbabwe government hospital doctors have been on strike for the past 36 days, plunging the public health sector into deep crisis, which has led to the near-collapse of the health delivery system. But on Friday, a surprise meeting between …

Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:56hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors 'arm-twisted' to suspend strike

JUNIOR doctors at public hospitals yesterday ended their 40-day long strike after some consultant doctors allegedly threatened to cause them to fail their internship.The Zimbabwe Hospitals Doctors' Association, in a statement, confirmed th…

Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter

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