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Sally Mugabe Hospital operations unaffected by fire incident
The government has confirmed that no major damage was sustained at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital following a fire that broke out on Saturday, affecting a storeroom and solar power infrastructure....Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 18:59hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Dead man resurfaces 13 years after burial
In a sensational twist that reads more like fiction than reality, a 69-year-old Buhera woman, Judith Machao, has rocked her community - and social circles far beyond - with a jaw-dropping claim: her h...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:32hrs | 2243 | by Staff reporter
A Challenge to the Ministry of Health Show us the Truth, Not the Spin
Dear Minister of Health, Deputy Minister, and Permanent Secretary, Allow me to also include Nick Mangwana and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio committee on health.Followi...Published: 11 May 2025 at 10:37hrs | 175 | by Hector Mbizvo
Renowned Zimbabwean mathematician Mandishona dies
RENOWNED research scientist and mathematician Gibson Mandishona has died.He was 80.Born on February 2 in 1943, Mandishona was also an accomplished musician and arts manager.He ...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 21:40hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
South Africa should not carry burden of Zimbabwe's poor leadership – Chamisa
Like many people in Zimbabwe and elsewhere around the world, I recently watched a video in which Dr Phophi Ramathuba, the Limpopo MEC for Health, spoke to a Zimbabwean patient seeking care in a hospit...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:57hrs | 3 | by Nelson Chamisa I CCC President
Chamisa backs ranting Limpopo doctor, wants Zimbabweans chased away from SA hospitals?
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa has thrown full weight behind South Africa's Limpopo MEC for Health amid calls for the neighbouring nation to assist Zimbabwe in holding cr...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Health sector has virtually collapsed
I USED to blame the country's rich and powerful citizens for seeking medical treatment outside the country until I came face-to-face with Zimbabwe's decaying public health system last week.Whe...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:14hrs | 4 | by Mukunda Chitova
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
NewZimbabwe.com journalist Costa Nkomo still missing
IT IS now three days since Costa Nkomo, a top journalist with NewZimbabwe.com and anchor on NewZim TV's programme ‘Agenda' went missing.Costa (30), a versatile journalist, was last seen in H...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
A toast for 2021, but......
We bid 2020 goodbye, the year many would want to quickly forget contrary to views, at least if one wears Zimbabwe's political lenses. The past nine months have been notorious given the COVID-1...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Footballers struck by lightning, one dead
A BOLT of lightning yesterday struck a kitchen hut in Mahuskewa in which three social soccer team players were taking refuge from the rains and killed one of them on the spot.Ian Mashinge (19)...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Nurses protests: 10 acquitted
TEN of the 11 nurses, who were arrested in June for allegedly contravening COVID-19 lockdown regulations after they gathered at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) in Hara...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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 ann...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa presides over TICAD, seals deals
President Mnangagwa yesterday presided over a session of the Tokyo International Conference for Africa Development (TICAD) where he also sealed lucrative deals for the country, giving impetus to the Z...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa using borehole for votes campaign in Glen View?
Government has allocated $1 million for 15 boreholes to be sunk in Harare's Glen View, which faces chronic water shortages and has been at the epicentre of previous cholera outbreaks. This fol...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe doctor's death a great loss'
The late senior medical consultant, Dr Kumbirai Mumbwandarikwa who died on the 11th of this month at his Borrowdale home after battling cancer has been described as one of the best medical practitione...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's doctor dies
Doctor Kumbirai Mubwandarikwa, who treated prominent liberation fighters including former President Robert Mugabe in colonial jails, has died. He was 78.His son, Joram, confirmed the d...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nurses call off strike
The Zimbabwe Nurses' Association (ZINA) Harare province will not take part in industrial action - slated for today - by health personnel after assurances by the association's new patron, Preside...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Mbare illegal abortionist exposed
An illegal abortionist in Mbare had his cover after a team from the national Broadcaster ZBC TV went undercover to investigate his contract killing trade.It is reported that girls as young as ...Published: 29 May 2019 at 13:41hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
We must flash out all the sloths
Hairdressers of Natpharm head honchos must understandably be worried since they might not be seeing their clients anytime soon, especially after they received quite the "hairdryer treatment" last week...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Major shake-up in govt hospitals
A MAJOR shake-up is underway in the country's biggest referral hospitals as Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo begins to flex his muscles following his appointment in September last year....Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
US, Canada surgeons honour Mtukudzi
THE late music icon and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi continues to be honoured, with the United States and Canadian volunteer surgical team under the banner Operation of Hope dedicating its upc...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Child with male, female genitals operated on
DOCTORS at Harare Central Hospital have successfully operated on a 10-year-old child from Tsholotsho who was born with both female and male sexual organs. The now "complete girl" (name withheld for et...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF shadow MP comes to the rescue of Harare Hospital
The Southerton Constituency Development Trust has stepped up efforts to assist Harare Central Hospital on its water and food challenges. The trust's chairman, Andrew Makahamadze, who is also s...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Doctor weeps in front of Zimbabwe Health minister
Senior doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals yesterday narrated to the minister of Health Obadiah Moyo, of the horrors and deaths occurring everyday at major hospitals because of acute shortages ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cleft surgery mission dedicated to Mtukudzi
An all-volunteer United States and Canadian surgical team, Operation of Hope, will in May embark on a cleft surgical mission in Zimbabwe.The 30-year-old US/Canada-based surgical charity has de...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pre-term baby discharged as doctors’ strike continues
A MABVUKU family has come face to face with the grim reality of the doctors' strike after their premature baby, born at 24 weeks and weighing just over 1,4kg, was discharged on Monday by Parirenyatwa ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
More doctors report for duty
More doctors yesterday heeded Government's call to return to work and joined their colleagues who reported for duty on Monday. In a statement yesterday, Government said all doctors who had bee...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
35 out of 273 doctors presented themselves for the Disciplinary Hearings
1. The industrial action entered the 37th day for those continuing on strike following the signing of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (03A) i of 2019 on the 5th of January 2019. 2. All mem...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 22:52hrs | | 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
Doctors divided over strike
Cracks have begun to emerge among striking junior doctors after some of them returned to work yesterday as part of an agreement they signed with the Government at the weekend. However, others ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors report for work in 5 cities
The Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced that in the past two days all doctors have resumed their duties in the following areas:Marondera - All Doct...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 10:08hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Intern' doctors threaten to snub disciplinary hearings
THE over 500 suspended junior doctors at public hospitals have vowed to snub disciplinary hearings scheduled for today at their various work stations around the country and continue with their industr...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cops hunt for 'sadistic' man
Police have launched an extensive manhunt for a Harare man who stands accused of causing the deaths of five children after he sickeningly burnt down the home of the family of a 12-year-old girl that h...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
More boys born on Christmas Day
At least 72 babies were born on Christmas Day in four of country's major hospitals. Chitungwiza and Mpilo central hospitals recorded the highest number of 20 babies each, followed by Harare Cent...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 08:44hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Nurses recruitment scam exposed
HARARE Central Hospital Principal Tutor Irene Sambo is alleged to have pocketed more than $300 000 in a nurse trainee recruitment scandal that has left one of Zimbabwe's biggest health referral centre...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 16:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Govt partially fulfils doctors' demands
GOVERNMENT met striking doctors yesterday and urged them to resume work as some of their grievances had been addressed. Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo met the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors defy govt orders
THE Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) has vowed not to call off the industrial action which began on December 1, until their demands for better pay and more drugs in State hospitals are re...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches crackdown on academic fraud
The country's education system is battling to preserve its integrity in the wake of an upsurge in academic fraudsters who are forging qualifications to secure jobs and gain admission into institutions...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
More Zimbabwe doctors join strike
More doctors yesterday joined the on-going strike, defying a government message to call off the job action.The doctors have been on strike since Saturday to protest poor remuneration and the d...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Things going from bad to worse in Zimbabwe
Things are going from bad to worse in Zimbabwe - with yesterday's devastating strike by doctors at the country's public hospitals being the latest problem to confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa's be...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 13:23hrs | | 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
Army killings shock details
Fresh harrowing evidence of people shot by the army during the August 1 protests in Harare has surfaced amid claims that the commission set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa ignored the majority of t...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reportwr
Parliament urged to oversee govt spending
PARLIAMENT has to keep strict checks and balances on government expenditure to control the budget deficit, economists have advised.Last week, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube presented his maiden...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Public selection of student nurses'
In a historic development for the nursing profession, Harare Central Hospital has adopted public selection of student nurses as a way of improving transparency and dealing with corruption in the recru...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
General Sibanda's testimony disputed
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) rarely admits to wrongdoing, officials from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) told a Commission of Inquiry probing the August 1 post-election violence that...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bus operator shots man over $30
A Harare bus operator shot and injured a man over $30.Gladmore Musanhi, who has interests in Musanhi passenger buses shot Callisto Magombedze in an argument over an additional $30 for carrying...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health time bomb
ZIMBABWE'S hospitals lack basic equipment such as thermometers and painkillers while the working conditions for nurses are deteriorating, Parliament heard on Friday.The rot in the health secto...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare Central Hospital in intensive care
The Harare Central Hospital is facing a plethora of challenges owing to the unavailability of money and human resources to efficiently run one of the country's biggest referral centres.Speakin...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt appreciates nurses' work despite challenges
The government appreciates the works of nurses despite challenges associated with their work which they face, The Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Obadiah Moyo has said.This came to light ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Virginia Zifesho
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