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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 | 98 | 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 | 375 | 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 | 114 | 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 | 257 | 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 | 955 | 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 | 962 | 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 | 581 | 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 | 365 | by Staff reporter

Kwekwe doctors' residence project stalls

The reconstruction of the doctor's residence at Kwekwe General Hospital remains stalled due to lack of funding, leaving hospital staff struggling for accommodation nearly four years after a devastating fire displaced 14 families, including…

Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:31hrs | 69 | 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 | 592 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt intimidates doctors, nurses

GOVERNMENT yesterday intimidated health workers against engaging in strike action beginning today over poor wages and working conditions, with the responsible minister Douglas Mombeshora accusing the former of having a hidden agenda.The he…

Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean cardiothoracic surgeons make major medical breakthrough

Three Zimbabwean cardiothoracic surgeons on Tuesday teamed up with a colleague from Spain and successfully carried out an extensive uniportal video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), the first of its kind in the country.The surgery which be…

Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Chiwenga received treatment from animal doctors'

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga received treatment from a veterinary doctor at the instigation of his ex-wife Marry Mubaiwa while being admitted in South Africa, the court heard.This was revealed by former Health and Child Care Deputy …

Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 19:57hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

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 | 4 | by Staff reporter

Doctors and Nurses 4ED treat residents in New Lobengula

HUNDREDS of Bulawayo residents from New Lobengula suburb received free medical treatment at a health expo organised by the Brian Samuriwo Foundation at the weekend.The medical care expo was held at New Lobengula sports grounds and treatmen…

Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Doctors fume over PSMAS 'harassment'

The Medical and Dental Private Practitioners Zimbabwe Association (MDPPZA) has accused Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) of harassing doctors in private practice under a joint op…

Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | 3 | 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 | | 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 | 2 | 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 | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe plans law to criminalise foreign recruitment of medics

Zimbabwe plans to enact a law criminalising the recruitment of its health personnel by other countries, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has said.Chiwenga, who is also the health minister, said the drain of health care professionals was…

Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 10:43hrs | 2 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter

Iranian medical specialists arrive in Zimbabwe

A delegation of 11 Iranian medical specialists and a journalist arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday evening for mutual collaboration, knowledge exchange and to treat locals.The team, led by dermatologist Dr Naser Emadi, comprises urologists, oph…

Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter

Doctors ask Chiwenga for land to build surgeries

GOVERNMENT has said that plans to redevelop some of the oldest suburbs across the country is critical in increasing housing space and industrial opportunities.The idea dovetails with the Second Republic development agenda espoused in the N…

Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1 | 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 | 3 | 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 | | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga orders investigation on errant nurses, doctors

VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga has ordered a thorough investigation into cases of alleged corruption and theft of drugs by nurses and doctors at public hospitals.This follows a NewsDay report last Friday exposing under-paid health per…

Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's doctors, nurses turn mercenary

SOME public health workers, who include doctors and nurses, have reportedly devised a well-knit scam to milk cash from desperate patients to supplement their meagre salaries.Those involved allegedly give preferential treatment and attentio…

Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter

Wearing of masks remains mandatory as new Omicron variants emerge

GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would not lift COVID-19 restrictions, which include wearing of masks and a ban on big gatherings, to help control the spread of the pandemic ahead of the Easter holidays.Neighbouring Botswana has detected new O…

Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Private doctors approach Mnangagwa over land

PRIVATE medical players under the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners Association of Zimbabwe (MDPPAZ) banner have asked President Emmerson Mnangagwa to expedite issuance of land to their members.In August last year, Mnangagwa pledged…

Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Private doctors, medical aid societies square off

PRIVATE medical doctors have threatened to turn away patients on medical aid until they have been paid for their services.Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association president Johannes Marisa yesterday said members of …

Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

Shortage of doctors caused by the West, claims Zanu-PF

ZANU-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has blamed western countries for causing a brain drain in the health sector saying that they lure the Zimbabwe's medical practitioners with better salaries.Mutsvangwa was speaking during a post-p…

Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:49hrs | | 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 | 9 | by ZBC

Mnangagwa gives private doctors farms

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is offering land to medical practitioners in private practice drawn from across the country's 10 provinces.Close to 372 medical practitioners under the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners Zimbabwe Associat…

Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

'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 | 10 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter

Unavailability of doctors delays court processes

SHORTAGE of doctors at Bindura hospital delayed the sentencing of three Trojan mine men who severely  assaulted  their colleague in a beer dispute.Tinashe Kamala (31), Shaw Majimba(33) and Kudakwashe Siriya (24) pleaded guilty to…

Published: 03 May 2021 at 19:20hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Doctors accuse Zanu PF of concealing covid-19 statistics - should and must demand accountability

"Health professionals have accused government of allegedly concealing COVID-19 statistics in the country to give the impression that the virulent disease was under control at a time it has ballooned out of control, with nurses and doctors …

Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 16:52hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

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 | | 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 | 3 | by Ranga Chitore

Mugwadi accuses Biti of colluding with doctors to target Zanu-PF politicians

Zanu-PF information director Tafadzwa Mugwadi has backed a now withdrawn claim by government spokesman Nick Mangwana that doctors were responsible for purposely killing several ruling party bigwigs who succumbed to Covid-19 last week - eve…

Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 21:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Nick Mangwana issues apology after calling doctors 'assassins'

Zimbabwe government spokesman Nick Ndavaningi Mangwana has apologised after suggesting "medical assassins" were deliberately killing Zanu-PF members in hospitals following the death of several past and present bureaucrats from Covid-19 las…

Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 16:26hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter

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 | 4 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter

'We are ready for COVID-19'

DOCTORS in private practice say they are ready to support government in its fight against COVID-19, but have urged the State to move with speed to utilise all dormant council clinics in order to increase COVID-19 bedding facilities in the …

Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

Doctors predict mass deaths

MEDICAL doctors have warned of a looming surge in COVID-19-related deaths in the coming days, saying the figures were likely to double this week as positive cases continue to rise against a drop in the recovery rate.The health professional…

Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:05hrs | 1 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 14 | by Staff reporter

Cuba to bring more doctors

Cuba is set to increase the number of medical doctors operating in Zimbabwe on a Government-to-Government arrangement, a development that is expected to deepen bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Cuba's ambassador to Zimbabwe,…

Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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