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Zimbabwe expands access to advanced surgeries
Zimbabwe's public health sector is making major strides in specialist healthcare provision, with the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals having successfully conducted 62 open-heart surgeries to date, whil...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:05hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Innscor facilitates cleft lip, palate surgery
Innscor Africa Limited, through its health subsidiary Providence Health and Wellness, has partnered with the Global Cleft and Cranio-Facial Foundation to provide life-changing cleft lip and palate sur...Published: 05 May 2025 at 15:58hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland has critical shortage of rehab centres
A critical shortage of drug rehabilitation centers in Matebeleland South and Matabeleland North has left residents with limited options for addressing escalating drug and substance abuse, according to...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 15:56hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to open Gweru Hospital Centre of Excellence
ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga is expected to commission the Gweru Provincial Hospital (GPH) Centre of Excellence today in a major milestone set to improve health services at the facility....Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt rules out Gweru Hospital upgrade
GOVERNMENT has ruled out the possibility of Gweru Provincial Hospital being upgraded to a central hospital anytime soon, saying it would have to undergo a massive facelift to qualify for the status....Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gweru Hospital gives patients 48-hour ultimatum
GWERU Provincial Hospital yesterday have given debtors a 24-hour ultimatum to settle their debts or risk having their property attached by the health institution to recover outstanding bills, Southern...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Give Mnangagwa credit'
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has expressed concern over how Zimbabweans were failing to appreciate the ‘sterling' efforts of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in resuscitating "the nearly dead health deli...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Town Clerk cheats death by a whisker
REDCLIFF Town Clerk, Mr Gilson Chakauya, cheated death by a whisker after a vehicle he was travelling in veered off the road and overturned along the Gweru-Kwekwe Highway on Tuesday. His wife,...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Mpilo CEO survives fatal head-on accident
MPILO Central Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Mr Leonard Mabhandi, cheated death after his vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with another near the 10km peg along Gweru-Kwekwe highway, poli...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Motorist kills woman in fuel queue
A 43-YEAR-OLD woman from Shangani was killed in Gweru recently after a motorist, who was on a long and winding fuel queue early in the morning, lost control of his vehicle and hit her while she was se...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Central Committee member dies in car crash
ZANU-PF Midlands Province deputy chairperson and Central Committee member Godwin Shiri has died. Shiri died after the party vehicle he was driving was involved in a head on collision with a bu...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
28-year-old rapes granny 5 times
A 28-YEAR-OLD man broke into a 68-year-old granny's house, assaulted her, raped her five times and sodomised her twice.Isheanesu Dzingiso (28) of Plot 15, Julena in Somabhula allegedly abused ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
MSU donates to Gweru Hospital paediatric unit
Midlands State University (MSU) marketing department last week donated goods to Gweru General Hospital's paediatric ward as part of the institution's corporate social responsibility programme....Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 die, 19 seriously injured in kombi head on collision
Three people died and 19 others were seriously injured yesterday when a commuter omnibus and a Toyota Gaia collided head on along Gweru-Shurugwi road.The Shurugwi bound Gaia had two passengers...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Drug-peddling cop loses appeal
POLICE doctor has lost an appeal at the High Court against conviction by a Police Tribunal for peddling dangerous drugs to addicts in Bulawayo and Gweru.Assistant Commissioner Dereck Matsika, ...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 09:19hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Man kills wife, appears in court
Midlands Provincial Education Inspector, Fred Shavi (64) has appeared before High Court judge, Justice Makonese in Gweru today facing allegations of killing his wife, Mrs Netsai Ncube who was a lectur...Published: 17 May 2017 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
MSU student stabbed for cheating
A MIDLANDS State University final year student is battling for life in a Gweru hospital after her fiancé - who was supposed to marry her over the Easter holiday - allegedly stabbed her when he fo...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Three die in kombi crash
Three people died on the spot while 17 others were seriously injured along the Bulawayo-Harare highway, 40 kilometres outside Kwekwe from Gweru.The Nissan Caravan commuter omnibus they wer...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Petrol bomb suspect facing murder charges
43 year old illegal gold panner, Garikayi Zvavada who petrol bombed his girlfriend and her cousin in Ascot, Gweru over the weekend is now facing murder charges following the death of the two victi...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Female nurse chops off man's manhood during circumcision
There was drama at Gweru Hospital on Thursday after a 24-year-old man Tatenda Masuku had part of his manhood cut off while he was being circumcised.The sad scenario has since been confirm by t...Published: 25 Mar 2016 at 10:19hrs | 21 | by Thobekile Zhou
Doctor sued over wrong medication
A PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS)-run hospital and one of its doctors have been sued for $120,000 for administering wrong treatment on a five-year-old girl causing chronic foot and leg ulc...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Hell beckons for Mujuru allies
IT was Aristotle the ancient Greek philosopher who said, "politicians have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness".T...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Herbert Moyo
Brutal crime of passion, man gouges lover's eyes - Video
A taxi driver in Gweru's Mkoba 17 brutally murdered his girlfriend by ripping her stomach open and gouged her eyes before attempting to commit suicide.The taxi driver, who has only been identi...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 22:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gweru hospital scandal as nurses paddle drugs
NURSES at Gweru Provincial Hospital are allegedly using their medical aid cards to source drugs from a local pharmacy before they sell them to patients admitted at the hospital.According t...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Nurses fail their final exam
STUDENT nurses who sat for their final third year examinations in March at Gweru Provincial Hospital failed to make it with only seven out of a class 37 passing. A source said of the seven tha...Published: 24 May 2014 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP in nasty bar brawl over a hooker, runs over man
A married Shurugwi South member of parliament, Tapiwanashe Matangaidze picked up a bar stool and threatened a potential client in a nasty bar brawl over an alleged Midlands State University (MSU) lady...Published: 05 May 2014 at 16:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman lives with pair of scissors in her womb for 7 yrs
A 34-year-old Gweru woman from Ascot Infill is set to sue Gweru Provincial Hospital after suffered excruciating abdominal pains for seven years since giving birth to her second child through caesare...Published: 22 Feb 2014 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Four die in road accident
Four people have died and nine others where injured when an Isuzu vehicle burst one of its rear tyre and overturned at the 288,4 kilometer peg along Harare-Bulawayo road on Tuesday at around 7pm....Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 22:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zebulon bus accident, 12 dead
TWELVE people were killed, 10 of them on the spot, when the Zebulon bus they were travelling in failed to stop at a road construction controlled sign and sideswiped a Group Five International Company ...Published: 21 Feb 2013 at 04:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Connemara accident victims named
POLICE have released the names of the four family members who died when a pick-up truck was involved in a head-on collision with a bus near Connemara on Monday morning. One of the victims in t...Published: 09 Jan 2013 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Crime Reporter
Head-on collision, 4 family members and a school pupil die on the spot
FOUR family members, including a school pupil, died on the spot when a Toyota Hilux truck they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a Zupco bus near Connemara Open Prison along...Published: 07 Jan 2013 at 22:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mental health patient raped by support worker, Hospital authorities conceal case
A male worker at in Ingutsheni Hospital in Bulawayo is under probe for raping a mental health patient in a bathroom but hospital authority swept the matter under the carpet.The male sta...Published: 09 Mar 2012 at 08:32hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Female, male psychiatric patients housed in the same hospital ward
Psychiatric patients of both sexes at Gweru Hospital are reported to be housed at the same ward to the extent that patients have been caught having sex and some striping naked in front of each...Published: 01 Mar 2012 at 12:27hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Prostitute bites off regular client's manhood over payment
A Gweru man, Brain Shumba (32) was critically injured on Monday when he had a chunk of his male organ bitten off by a prostitute he had hired following a row over payment for services she had rendered...Published: 13 Dec 2011 at 22:43hrs | 1 | by Midlands correspondent
Exam scripts destroyed as fire guts nuns' flat
EXAMINATION answer sheets for student nurses at Gweru Provincial Hospital were reportedly burnt when a flat belonging to Roman Catholic nuns and hospital tutors in Gweru was gutted by fire on Friday n...Published: 25 Nov 2011 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Midlands Correspondent
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