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Mnangagwa appoints Health Service Commission
The new Health Service Commission, which assumes full control of the staff in the State health services, has become active with the appointment of Civil Service Commission chair Dr Vincent Hungwe as c...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA express willingness to return home
Some Zimbabwean nationals who live and ply their trade in South Africa have expressed willingness to return to their home country to participate in its economic growth and voting in the upcoming elect...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 21:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reportert
'Zimbabwe govt bigwigs liars'
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday accused top government officials of lying to diplomats and foreign observer missions accredited to cover the August 23 elections.Th...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police block more Zanu-PF gatherings than opposition
Police have blocked 86 gatherings of the ruling Zanu-PF party between January 1 and July 10 as compared to 65 from its main rival CCC in the same period despite claims by the opposition party that the...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has nothing to hide, Govt tells election observers
Zimbabwe has nothing to hide in its conduct of elections and welcomes all observer missions and diplomats to observe the forthcoming polls slated for August 23 and make their recommendations in an imp...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Over 300 CCC meetings approved by police, 65 banned
FROM January to July 2023, the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party had 345 of its political gatherings sanctioned, the Home Affairs Ministry has revealed.Home Affairs Per...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs ask for diplomatic passports
CHIEFS have asked for diplomatic passports for ease of travel across borders.The call was made by Chief Clemence Nembiri of Mt Darwin in Manicaland province on Wednesday during a Civil Registr...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 18:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders to issue birth, death records
GOVERNMENT has responded to the call to ensure easy access to birth and death records in communal areas by allowing chiefs to issue the critical documents.Following a realisation that most peo...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt reveals plan to rebury National heroes
GOVERNMENT is processing requests from families of some national heroes to rebury their bodies at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.Some national heroes were buried at their homesteads after ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police want to beef numbers for polls
THE Home Affairs ministry has approached treasury for funding to oil its operations ahead of the August 23 elections including recruiting more police officers, Parliament heard.Officials in th...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mobile ID registration progressing well
The Registrar General's Department has issued 103 992 birth certificates, 96 491 national identity documents and 2 762 death certificates as at May 21 in the ongoing national mobile registration blitz...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kazungula, Victoria Falls borders set for upgrades
GOVERNMENT plans to upgrade Kazungula and Victoria Falls border posts into modern state-of-the-art "one stop" facilities.Kazungula, the border with Botswana and Victoria Falls leading into Zam...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:38hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Home Affairs secretary in meddling storm
HOME Affairs permanent secretary Gerald Gwinji has been accused of meddling in a case where he made attempts to summon his counterpart, secretary for Local Government ministry Zvinechimwe Churu, on be...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe continues to digitalise passport application
THE Government is putting in place a cocktail of measures to ensure easy access to travelling documents and is expecting services to decentralise to all districts by year-end while efforts are being m...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 13:36hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs to issue birth, death records
GOVERNMENT is working to build the capacity of traditional leaders to be able to issue birth and death confirmation records for those who are born or die outside health institutions.A birth re...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes fresh appointments
President Mnangagwa has appointed Ambassador Rudo Mabel Chitiga as the Head of Secretariat on Harmonisation and Standardisation of Salaries for the public sector.Ambassador Chitiga takes over ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 18:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa reassigns former CIO boss
Aaron Nhepera, formerly the Deputy Director General of the President's Office, has been reassigned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Ndav...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 09:16hrs | 2 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga divided by Cham]nakira's death
THE death of Retired Major General Godfrey Chanakira has further exposed the rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga.After initially denying Chanakira nat...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lupane's long wait for hospital
IT is now exactly 17 years since the construction of the long-awaited Lupane Provincial Hospital began, with annual budgetary allocations and deadlines set but on the ground the project remains a drea...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Break-in at Ministry of Health
There was a break-in at the Ministry of Health and Child Care headquarters offices in Harare at the weekend with the perpetrators allegedly gaining entry using the fire-escape routes before ransacking...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza Hospital 'privatisation' blocked
The government was forced to abandon private partnerships at Chitungwiza Central Hospital after it emerged that the public health institution was being used by private players to make money, it has be...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reshuffles top civil servants
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has, with effect from May 1, appointed specialist public health physician Dr Agnes Mahomva as the new Permanent Secretary for Health and Child Care to replace Dr Gerald Gwinji who ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt probes drug leakages
GOVERNMENT is investigating leads that seem to suggest high-ranking officials could be involved in the disappearance of drugs from its warehouses into private pharmacies.Recently, three men em...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Age of consent stirs debate in Zimbabwe
LEGISLATORS have dismissed reports that they are pushing for the downward review of the age of consent to 12 years, explaining that they were calling for minors who are sexually active to access treat...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage looms
GOVERNMENT says it is expecting a deficit in antiretroviral (ARV) drugs between now and 2020 due to an increase in uptake of the HIV and Aids treatment programme.The Health and Child Care mini...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' hearings clarified
Disciplinary hearings for junior doctors who participated in the month-long illegal industrial action will proceed as scheduled and be conducted in a fair and transparent manner, the Ministry of Healt...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fairness assured at striking doctor's disciplinary hearings
Disciplinary hearings against doctors who participated in the illegal industrial action will be fair and transparent and will continue to be conducted as scheduled, the Ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants plead poverty
TEACHERS yesterday said they were too poor to go back to work as schools open countrywide today, piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to solve the worsening economic crisis.This cam...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hospitals CEOs, directors leave suspended
THE Government has suspended leave for chief executive officers and directors at public health institutions. In a letter addressed to chief executive officers yesterday, Permanent Secretary in...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doctors reject Chiwenga deal
Negotiations between government and striking doctors collapsed yesterday after the medical practitioners rejected a deal struck by negotiators, prolonging the month-long strike.Doctors in publ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns striking doctors
THE Health Services Board (HSB) says it will take disciplinary action on the 553 striking doctors and radiographers after they disobeyed a 12-hour ultimatum to return to work, further straining negoti...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors, govt impasse far from over
It appears the impasse between the Health Services Board (HSB) and the striking 530 doctors and radiographers is still far from being settled.The HSB maintains it is going to take action again...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 18:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa suspends nurse recruitment
GOVERNMENT will suspend nurse training recruitment with effect from May 2019. Health and Child Care permanent secretary Dr Gerald Gwinji said the decision was a temporary measure, with recruitment set...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike spreads
JUNIOR doctors at public hospitals yesterday stepped up their strike for better working conditions and remuneration, forcing some major hospitals to close down key departments and discharge "stable" p...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt raises $30m from airtime tax
Over $30 million was collected in the first nine months of the year under the Health levy, which is funded through a 10% charge on airtime.Secretary in the Ministry of Health Gerald Gwinji on ...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'No to Prophet Magaya HIV/Aids cure'
SECRETARY for Health and Child Care Gerald Gwinji yesterday said government would find it difficult to license Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya's alleged new cur...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Dr Prophet Magaya Aids claim
DOCTORS and HIV and Aids activists have warned that Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya risks rolling back progress that has been made in the fight against the scou...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt tightens nursing school requirements
GOVERNMENT has tightened enrolment requirements for individuals intending to train as nurses and only aspiring candidates people below the age of 30 with five Ordinary Levels from one sitting are elig...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health minister a medical impostor
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is neither a qualified medical doctor nor a fellow of various international elite societies as stated on his curriculum vitae posted by Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH),...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blocks donated life-saving drugs
LIFE-SAVING drugs worth millions of dollars, donated by the Global Fund, could soon go to waste after they were reportedly blocked from distribution and quarantined at government warehouses under uncl...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fortifies his political power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen "Mudha" Ncube as the country's new State Security minister.He ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 13:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tobaiwa Mudede booted out
LONG-SERVING Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede (74) has finally been retired while Information secretary George Charamba was elevated to the unfamiliar position of Deputy Chief Secretary Presidential C...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa retires Mudede in major shake-up
ONE of the country's longest-serving bureaucrats, Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede, was retired yesterday as President Emmerson Mnangagwa also got rid of several permanent secretaries and directors in...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints ONLY 1 permanent secretary from Matebelenand
President Mnangagwa yesterday appointed new permanent secretaries for ministries, reassigned some and retired others as his Government takes the Second Republic into motion. Long time Information, Pub...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Scores of patients stranded as theatres undergo renovation
SCORES of patients in need of minor surgeries in the southern region have been left stranded as theatres in the two referral hospitals in Bulawayo have not been operational. The southern regio...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to revive heart operations
THE Government is working towards reviving cardiac operations in Bulawayo to address children born with heart diseases who are forced to travel to Harare or neighbouring countries for help.A c...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to roll out cannabis/ mbanje medicinal products
ZIMBABWE will soon roll out its first cannabis medicinal products to treat various diseases and conditions.In an interview yesterday, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and Chil...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nurses get $5 000 windfall.
NURSES on Monday received lump sum payments of up to $5 000 from Government as payment of outstanding allowances.In a survey conducted by The Chronicle yesterday, nurses said they were shocked...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors' on-call allowances slashed
DOCTORS have accused the Health Services Board (HSB) of slashing their on-call allowances awarded by Government last month.They said the HSB technically slashed the allowances by creating a pa...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free blood for all on the cards
GOVERNMENT is working on modalities to provide free blood in public hospitals as efforts to improve access to quality health gain pace.Health and Child Care Secretary Major-General (Retired) D...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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