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Mnangagwa govt expecting 200 ambulances
The Government, through the Presidential Emergency Medical Scheme (PEMS), is set to bolster emergency health services across Zimbabwe by deploying a fleet of 200 ambulances to health facilities spanni...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:34hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Trainee nurse aide expelled from Mpilo Central Hospital
A TRAINEE nurse aide has been expelled from Mpilo Central Hospital after allegedly posing as a public relations officer and duping members of the public into sending money into her EcoCash to assist a...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
10 free clinics for disabled, war vets
Kadoma-based businessman Mr Jimayi Muduvuri has constructed 10 clinics across the country where the disabled and war veterans will receive free treatment.The gesture is in honour of the financ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 23:36hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Free eye treatment for Makokoba residents
Residents from Makokoba suburb with various ocular ailments had their eyesight restored free of charge during an eye camp organised by Zanu-PF National Assembly representative for Bulawayo South Raj M...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Fear grips undocumented foreign workers in South Africa
Zimbabwean domestic migrant worker Precious clocked in late for work, launched into her duties for a white South African family as if nothing happened, yet hours earlier she had been arrested for bein...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ANC cannot continue treating Zanu-PF with kid gloves
SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) should once again confront its sister revolutionary party Zanu-PF over the escalating immigration crisis across the Limpopo, with analysts sayi...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Major upgrade for council clinics
A MAJOR infrastructure upgrade of Bulawayo City Council (BCC) clinics is underway and involves improving water supplies to the health facilities as well as medicines and other consumables.The ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UBH, Ingutsheni health staff recover from COVID-19
HEALTH workers at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) and Ingutsheni Mental Hospital, who tested positive for COVID-19 virus late last year, have recovered.This was revealed by UBH chief executive...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Boy with disability beats able bodied in 5km run
A 14-year-old Bulawayo boy with disability defied all odds on Saturday when he won a family fun marathon, beating able-bodied competitors.With an amputated right leg and walking with aid of cr...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo reels as ageing sewer system breaks down
IF anyone had told Sithuthukile Moyo that as an adult, she would be heading into the bushes when nature calls, she would have laughed it off as a bad joke.But nowadays, that is not an uncommon...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Bulawayo again
BULAWAYO has recorded a third diarrhoea outbreak in 11 months with about 50 cases being reported in the high-density suburb of Emganwini. Residents have accused the city council of failing to provide ...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rape clinic launches 72-hour campaign
THE Adult Rape Clinic (ARC) has launched a campaign that encourages victims of the crime to seek medical assistance within 72 hours to protect them from contracting HIV/Aids and pregnancies. T...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora wants compulsory vaccination
LAST week in the resort town of Victoria Falls, President Mnangagwa received his first Covid-19 jab at an event witnessed by several political leaders, who included main opposition leader Mr Douglas M...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gringo recovering in hospital
Veteran comedian Lazarus Boora affectionately known as 'Gringo' is recovering in hospital following interventions by government through the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe and the Medical and Dental...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
US reviews trade preferences eligibility for Zimbabwe
THE United States of America has announced that it will begin a Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) trade preferences eligibility review for Zimbabwe.Belo...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 07:01hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid cases resurface in Glen View
Several patients suffering from diarrhoea in Harare's Glen View high-density suburb, have tested positive for typhoid, a local non-governmental organisation has revealed.The Community Water Al...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Prophets fuel ARVs defaults''
PEOPLE living with HIV (PLHIV) have blamed some prophets and faith healers for the upsurge in the number of people who default from the first line antiretroviral therapy (ART). After defaultin...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:14hrs | | by Satff reporter
Tshinga Dube in forex payment shock
FORMER War Veterans minister and ex-Makokoba legislator Tshinga Dube recently came face to face with the desperation many Zimbabweans face after a pharmacy demanded that he pays for his medication in ...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 07:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Beware the long queues doth come
Our rations of overnight snacks packed, our cold-water bottles stashed away, perchance some juice or can of Miranda, warm clothing and a blanket each, here Bible, there a novel in hand and DJ Mjoks on...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:52hrs | 3 | by Zifiso Masiye
Pregnant women flood Harare hospital
Harare Central Hospital is struggling to cope with a surging number of women seeking free maternal health services — creating bed shortages in the process at one of the country's major referral cent...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance govt will launch Chamisa Care, Biti says
MDC Alliance Principal Tendai Biti has told supporters that if they vote for President Nelson Chamisa the alliance will launch a Chamisa care scheme. He said Chamisa care will enable peo...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Construction of UBH Orthopaedic Centre starts
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has started refurbishing its former Infectious Diseases Hostel which will be turned into an Orthopaedics Centre.The double storey hostel has been lyin...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No Zanu-PF rally shall be cancelled,' says Chiwenga
Vice President Retired General Dr Constantino Chiwenga said no Zanu-PF rally shall be cancelled due to fear of the attempt on the President's life in Bulawayo yesterday.Addressing a well atten...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 18:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engages women
President Mnangagwa yesterday met women from all walks of life and engaged them on issues affecting their lives.Unlike his predecessor Mr Robert Mugabe, President Mnangagwa is a listening lead...Published: 19 May 2018 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament orders scrapping of maternity user fees
THERE was relief yesterday at Edith Opperman Maternity Hospital in Mbare after the Women and Youth Portfolio Committee chairperson, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga ordered clinic officials to issue bi...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors should value people's lives
In as much as doctors' demands are valid, it is also essential for them to consider the precious lives of the people of Zimbabwe who need their special attention across the nation.Among other ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
Government directive plunges hospitals into crisis
Public hospitals could be driven towards the brink of closure through the implementation of a long-standing government policy compelling them to offer free treatment to expecting mothers, children und...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 10:56hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Makokoba residents to get free treatment
PEOPLE who live in Makokoba Constituency in Bulawayo will receive free medical treatment during a health expo organised by their MP in conjunction with the Ministry of Health and Child Care that will ...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube sources medication for thousands
THE Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube was forced to fork out cash from his own pocket for t...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents get free treatment
MORE than 1 000 Bulawayo residents yesterday received free medical treatment from an outreach programme held by the Medical Health Expo.The programme is aimed at bringing hospital faciliti...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Employers' blatant violation of Constitution can't be left unchallenged
As Zimbabwe's labour situation spirals out of control in a freefall characterised by serfdom - whereby employers blatantly violate the country's constitution on labour rights, increasingly abusing the...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Africa's new strategies to defeat HIV/AIDS
Prevention, treatment and care cut new infections by 14%. After more than three decades of wrestling the ...Published: 17 Dec 2016 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Juliette Martin
Offer free treatment to HIV patients, parliament suggests
HIV patients should be given free treatment, a Parliamentary Thematic Committee on HIV/Aids has suggested."The Ministry of Health and Child Care should communicate all new HIV ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
City residents get free health check-up
A NON-Governmental Organisation — You Have It In You Foundation — whose mandate is to improve the health of young women last week held a health awareness campaign for girls at Inyathi Vocation...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:42hrs | | by Faith Phiri
Internatinal doctors to offer free treatment in Bulawayo
Reports say Ricahrd Morris hospital is going to have international doctors coming in on the 12th to the 14th of August to do free cataract surgeries.This surgery is very expensive and to h...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 15:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Botswana court orders Zimbabwean inmate to produce CD4 count proof
A Botswana court has ordered a Zimbabwean man who sought to be released so that he is able to get HIV drugs on his own to produce proof of CD4 count to determine whether he can be provided the d...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Pregnant Zimbabwean women suffer at 'hellish' SA hospitals
Priscah Ndlovu is a documented Zimbabwean asylum seeker who lives in central Johannesburg. In June she went to give birth at the nearby Hillbrow General Hospital. She says she will never forget the ho...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV+ people call for free treatment
PEOPLE living with HIV/Aids are requesting that government ensures that they receive free treatment at the country's hospitals and clinics for all opportunistic infections (OI) since these were relat...Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Chinese doctors offer free treatment in Zimbabwe
A Chinese medical team has provided free treatment to more than 400 people from Seke district in Mashonaland East province.Organised by Tian Ze Tobacco in collaboration with the Chamber of Chi...Published: 13 Mar 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T official's death, govt to introduce free cancer treatment
Government is planning to introduce free cancer treatment for patients as part of efforts to mitigate the effects of the disease that requires specialised and expensive treatment, Prime Minister Morga...Published: 14 Jan 2013 at 04:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim to offer free healthcare starting May
Zimbabwe will from May start offering free health care to pregnant women, children and the elderly in what has been described as a giant leap for a country still emerging from a decade long economic r...Published: 02 Mar 2012 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa Should Boldly Stand Up Against Western Imperialism
NATO has been bombing houses and killing families and children in their hundreds in Libya. It has also struck pipelines of the Great Man Made River and this means that the Libyan people will die of th...Published: 16 Aug 2011 at 12:15hrs | | by Dambudzo Mapuranga
African economies up to the global challenge
Two foreign shoe sellers were once sent to Africa in search of new customers. At the sight of locals marching barefoot, the first retreated in despair. The second rejoiced at the untapped market. He o...Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 05:01hrs | | by Andre-Michel Essoungou in Istanbul
MDC-T's child neglecting MP in the dock again
MAKONI WEST Member of Parliament Webber Chinyadza has returned to court once again. This time he is being accused of neglecting to cater for his child's medical care and he put the blame on his girlfr...Published: 16 Jul 2011 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by .
Mzilikazi Clinic set to offer free treatment, '12th March'
Ordinary Zimbabweans are set to receive free treatment from the Zimbabwe Medical Association at various designated clinics across the country on the 12th of this month. Mzilikazi Clinic in Bulawayo i...Published: 09 Mar 2011 at 13:35hrs | | by Matthews Estell
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