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The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order y...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 707 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Government policy destroying the formal economy
Policy missteps and inconsistency has turned the Zimbabwean economy on its head against the formal sector, posing a threat to business continuity, domestic resource mobilization and formal employment....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:06hrs | 885 | by Victor Bhoroma
Matabeleland Chiefs make tough demands
TRADITIONAL chiefs in Matabeleland and the Midlands early this week tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa a number of tough demands on top of a public apology that need to be fulfilled in order t...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:22hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
'93% Zimbabweans have no health insurance'
ABOUT 93% of Zimbabweans have no access to health insurance due to high poverty levels in the country, while only 7% can afford private health services.This came out during a stakeholder engag...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Medical xenophobia: It's time to level the power imbalance in healthcare facilities
I WAS extremely angry, but not shocked, by the utterances of South Africa's Limpopo Health MEC, Phophi Ramathuba.So many things ran through my mind as I watched the video. Having watched her b...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 665 | by Shakira Choonara
Chiwenga threatens to deregister medical aid societies
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday threatened to deregister errant medical aid societies, accusing them of gross malpractices, failure to abide by the rule book, including abuse of funds an...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:20hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
1 748% hike in hospital fees
GOVERNMENT has hiked user fees at public hospitals by 1 748%, prompting analysts to warn of an upsurge in home deaths.New adult and children consultation fees have been pegged at US$12 and US$...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:00hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
3 000 health workers get Covid-19 pay
THE Government has paid 3 632 health workers who contracted the deadly Covid-19 their health insurance allowance payout.According to the Health Services Board, treasury has availed $350 millio...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar medical aid cards rejected
Thousands of patients have been left stranded after private health institutions started rejecting medical policies paid in local currency.Private medical practitioners rejecting medical aid fa...Published: 22 May 2022 at 19:22hrs | 1655 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga announces PSMAS bailout
Struggling medical insurance company Premier Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) will receive a government bailout to clear its debts and improve its balance sheet, vice president Constantino Chiwenga said on...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:18hrs | 4402 | by Staff reporter
Econet partners Harare, Capitol for insurance scheme
Econet Insurance, a subsidiary of EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe, has partnered with Capitol Insurance Brokers and City of Harare to launch CitySure, a one-stop-platform that allows residents to buy insura...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:57hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Govt sends SOS to private doctors
Medical players in private practice have been urged to create partnerships and synergies with the government to save the country's deteriorating healthcare system.Speaking at a Medical and Den...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:29hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Workers demand USD salaries
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Florence Taruvinga has said the economy can afford US dollars salaries and workers should be paid salaries that match the poverty datum line (PDL) as...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:31hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 overstreches medical aid industry
THE health insurance industry has been overstretched by the COVID-19 pandemic, with statistics indicating that 69% of healthcare funders have experienced a surge in cases of respiratory illnesses attr...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Maisha Health Fund launches convenient, phone-based medical aid registration via USSD
Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe's health insurance unit, Maisha Health Fund, has launched an innovative and convenient way to register for medical aid cover through the mobile phone. The service, wh...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 17:33hrs | 40 | by Agencies
Chiwenga defends 'reckless' ministers
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has defended the continued defiance of COVID-19 regulations by ministers at a time when the government has put in place a strict COVID-19 measur...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:31hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
'Doctors Using Fake Referrals To Lure Patients'
LOCAL anti-corruption body, Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has accused doctors employed in public hospitals of making unnecessary and illegal referrals to woe desperate patients to their pr...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Why are so many countries legalizing cannabis?
For a long time, in countries all around the world, marijuana had a terrible reputation. People who used cannabis on a regular basis were known to be lazy, unhelpful stoners that didn't give anything ...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 20:43hrs | 35 | by Staff write
Why are so many Countries Legalizing Cannabis?
For a long time, in countries all around the world, marijuana had a terrible reputation. People who used cannabis on a regular basis were known to be lazy, unhelpful stoners that didn't give anything ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 08:57hrs | 72 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa's govt partners EU to build 24 new hospitals
Government has expressed commitment to foster transparency and accountability in the use of donor funding extended towards the country's health sector to ensure continuity of programmes and establishm...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Patients suffer as doctors, medical aid societies clash
A TUSSLE has erupted between medical practitioners in the private sector and medical aid societies, as doctors are accused of turning down policy holders without cash co-payments due to health funders...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs the Patriotic Act
A debate on the possibility of a Patriotic Act to be enacted in our country's laws has been raging on ever since the Bill got tabled in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. A lot of diverse views have co...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:04hrs | 4 | by Prosperity Mzila
Medical aid societies hike fees
Zimbabweans seeking health care will have to fork out more for health insurance as medical aid societies have hiked contributions over the last few months for members paying in local currency. ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
New Maisha Health product enables patients to consult doctors remotely
Maisha Health, Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe's health insurance unit, has rolled out a digital platform that allows patients to consult doctors remotely.The Maisha Telemedicine platform will colle...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 17:08hrs | 31 | by Agencies
British government tried to coerce Chiwenga to signing up for Covax
Zimbabwe, which has extended a begging bowl to locals to finance the acquisition of Covid-19 vaccines, is dragging its feet in signing for a United Nations (UN) facility for poor countries to access d...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 08:08hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Can South Africa come to Zimbabwe's rescue by ending 'quiet diplomacy'?
Zimbabwe's worsening economic and political crises seem to be never-ending and still getting worse. The misplaced expectations that the "new dispensation" would provide an escape route following the 2...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 9 | by Ian Scoones
Zimbabweans now opting for traditional remedies
AS Zimbabwe continues to record an increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths, many people, especially those in the country's informal sector, are contemplating downgrading on funeral and medical aid cover...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over COVID-19 health insurance fund
THERE appears to be confusion over when frontline medical personnel will start receiving the liability insurance package, as they claim they are yet to receive anything, neither have they received com...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Belgian minister tweets EU's Covid vaccine price list to anger of manufacturers
A Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.Belgium's budget state secretary, Eva De B...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 20:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 infected civil servants receive US$1000
CIVIL servants who contracted Covid-19 in the line of duty have started receiving health insurance cover ranging from US$650 to US$1 000 paid in local currency at the prevailing official exchange rate...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga goes after fake Covid-19 certificates conmen
VICE President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has vowed to bring to book people who are selling fake Covid-19 certificates.Zimbabweans intending to travel out of the country are requ...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 06:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Only 10% of Zimbabweans on medical aid
INSURANCE and Pensions Commission (Ipec) commissioner Grace Muradzikwa says medical cover in the country is not working for the majority of Zimbabweans.Only one in 10 Zimbabweans have medical ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in state of radical uncertainty, says Prof Hawkins
Zimbabwe is in a state of radical uncertainty, economic consultant Tony Hawkins told an Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) all stakeholders webinar on health on Wednesday."I...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 12:50hrs | | by Agencies
Confusion hits schools restart
CONFUSION has hit the reopening of schools, with teachers refusing to return to classes until government offers them a good salary deal.Schools, which closed in March following the outbreak of...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a confused country: Cross
Economist Eddie Cross has described Zimbabwe as a rich, but confused and badly managed country with potential to come out of the woods.Presenting at an All-Stakeholders Conference on Health in...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
We trust Zimbabwe has a future
We are not exactly optimists in this country. We have seen too many disasters; man-made disasters I should hasten to addWe have seen a Tsunami like Cyclone Idai, and we expect "the next cyclon...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 451 | by Fr Oskar Wermter SJ
Zimbabweans in SA to get health insurance
Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals living and working legally here will be taken care of under the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI), South Africa's Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, sa...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
'Health Insurance Bill now at an advanced stage'
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo says government is now at an advanced stage in the crafting of a National Health Insurance Bill, which will provide a national health safety net to all citizens.Mo...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:10hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Funding for Zimbabwe's healthcare now dire
The country's healthcare system has become unsustainable in the face of serious funding challenges and for the umpteenth time, Zimbabweans have to brace for yet another gruelling round of increases in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
May Day message: Restating our commitment to the struggles of the working people
The MDC is headed to Buhera to celebrate the life of a veteran Unionist, the face of the struggles of the working people of Zimbabwe. Dr Morgan Tsvangirai, the founding father of the party did battle,...Published: 01 May 2019 at 11:15hrs | 464 | by Jacob Mafume
How to start your own profitable trucking business
Today, it is a good idea to start your own trucking business. E-commerce, hauling, and businesses with online deliveries are a billion dollar industry. Through the years, we have witnessed their growt...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 00:24hrs | 34713 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabwe hires consultant to craft national health insurance scheme
HEALTH and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo has disclosed that government has hired a consultant to craft the national health insurance scheme to ensure health is easily accessible to all Zimbabweans....Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Medical insurance for Zimbabweans in SA
Government is considering providing health insurance services for Zimbabwean citizens based in South Africa. The issue, which was agreed to by the Zimbabwean and South African governments duri...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:51hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe's son in-law milked Air Zimbabwe staff
Zimbabwean engineers maintaining aircraft in Malaysia went for months without being paid their travel and subsistence allowances after former Air Zimbabwe chief operating officer, and later chief exec...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 05:43hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe Airways: The untold story
Former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, Mr Simba Chikore used his family ties to manipulate processes, corrupt people and enter into shady deals involving several stakeholders during his time at ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 2287 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Sipho Pityana is a toxic, divisive and vindictive leader
Writing in his so-called personal capacity, Sipho Pityana, the president of Business Unity SA (Busa) and the chairperson of AngloGold Ashanti, tried and failed to derail last week's successful summit ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:23hrs | 827 | by Sandile Zungu, president of the Black Business Council
Mnangagwa's anti-graft unit probes PSMAS
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special unit on anti-corruption is investigating alleged rampant abuse of funds at the government-owned Premier Services Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) amid claims that top...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:55hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
'Prioritise universal healthcare systems to achieve SDGs'
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has urged African countries to prioritise universal healthcare systems in order to achieve the United Nations' crafted Sustainable Development Goals.Mohadi said thi...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt, teachers headed for showdown
Teachers are headed for a showdown with government this week over deteriorating conditions of service as they plan to down tools on Friday and march in protest.Teachers' unions told the Daily ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa restructures Scholarships Department
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is restructuring the Department of Scholarships as his administration seeks to give top priority to areas of critical skills in line with the Government's vision premised ...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
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