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Health Commission implements job evaluation outcomes
In a major move to improve equity, motivation, and service delivery in Zimbabwe's health sector, the Health Service Commission (HSC) has announced that it will begin implementing the results of its co...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 09:43hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Duty-free car import regulations tightened
Updated regulations for duty-free vehicle imports by civil servants, public health workers, and junior and specialist doctors were gazetted at the end of last month to ensure that State workers in the...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:42hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
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
Zimbabwe faces drug shortages
The Zimbabwean government has declared a severe shortage of medicine and drugs in public hospitals, leaving patients reliant on private health facilities, according to Health and Child Care Minister D...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:57hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe care workers abused in UK
A recent survey has highlighted that Zimbabweans, among other foreigners, are being subjected to exploitation in the United Kingdom's care work sector. The report from the United Kingdom's national he...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants vow to escalate wage demands to Mnangagwa
Civil servants have threatened to escalate their wage demands to President Emmerson Mnangagwa if government officials under the Zimbabwean leader continuously fail to heed their calls.Under th...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses bemoan 'slave wages'
NURSES have complained of being denied access to loans because of poor salaries, saying without being paid in United States dollars, it will be difficult for them to remain in the country.Acco...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health care workers condemn plan to criminalize foreign recruiters
Health care workers in Zimbabwe have condemned the government's plan to criminalize their recruitment to work in other countries as part of efforts to reduce a medical brain drain. Zimbabwe's vice pre...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'WHO will bail us out,' says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he expects funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to arrest the mass exodus of nurses and doctors which has seen the country facing a health crisi...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpopoma's famous personalities
BULAWAYO city, just like other towns and cities in Zimbabwe, had residential areas allocated according to race before Independence. Europeans, Africans, referred to at that time as "natives," Indians ...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bans health workers from prolonged strikes
Zimbabwean health workers are now barred from going on strikes lasting more than three days, according to a new law just signed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The government says the Health S...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe public health collapse
The cries of doctors at Zimbabwe's largest public hospital appear to have fallen on deaf ears and an increasing number of health professionals are emigrating, resulting in a dearth of cancer treatment...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tribalistic govt overlooks Prof Solwayo Ngwenya for Mpilo Hospital's top job
Professor Solwayo Ngwenya has reportedly been overlooked for the Mpilo Central Hospital substantive chief executive officer job with the former United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) acting chief executive of...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 19:47hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt forced to rehire fired and retired nurses
GOVERNMENT extended its waiver on re-appointment of health workers who retired or were fired for various misdemeanors to March 31, 2023 from September 30 this year, documents in NewZimbabwe.com's poss...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Harare fertility doctor
Reports reaching this scribe indicate that couples in Harare are mobilizing a petition to the Health Services Board and the Health Professions Council seeking an investigation and subsequent disciplin...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 10:14hrs | 22 | by Mandla Ndlovu
All Zimbabwe qualified health professionals recruited
ALL qualified health professionals seeking employment in the public sector have been hired, giving that group a zero unemployment rate as the Health Services Board (HSB) acts to upgrade the public hea...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt chokes hungry nurses
AT least 200 nurses face the axe after government yesterday fired Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union president, Robert Chiduku for conducting union business at his workplace demanding better wages for...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants strike flops
CIVIL servants' planned two-day national strike failed to kickoff Wednesday, with union leaders coy on sharing numbers of those who had decided to stay at home in line with what they had promised....Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops threaten protest vote
GROWING discontent over measly salaries paid to government workers has forced police officers, one of the least paid sectors in the civil service to threaten bhora musango, a protest vote for the oppo...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's doctors, nurses turn mercenary
SOME public health workers, who include doctors and nurses, have reportedly devised a well-knit scam to milk cash from desperate patients to supplement their meagre salaries.Those involved all...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Public Sector Unions express solidarity with Striking health workers
Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions and its affliates have expressed support and solidarity to the ongoing labour action by health worker...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 15:15hrs | 7 | by George Swarei
Patients stranded as murse strike bites
THE ongoing public health professionals' strike that has crippled major government hospitals is continuing unabated until the demands of the workers have been met, leaving many patients stranded....Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police block striking health workers from petitioning employer
Police on Wednesday blocked striking nurses and doctors from petitioning their employer, the Health Services Board (HSB) as the countrywide job action continues.The strike is now in its ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses reveal Chiwenga's 14-month snub
Doctors, nurses and radiographers boycotted work on the first day of an indefinite strike over pay on Monday.The strike was mostly felt at the country's largest referral hospital – Par...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers union says joining doctors and nurses on strike
Doctors, nurses and teachers across Zimbabwe went on strike Monday, as the country's latest financial crisis has left their salaries almost worthless.Nurses earn 18,000 Zimbabwe dollars per mo...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 18:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses pile pressure on Mnangagwa
AN emerging union of nurses with a sound base of membership in Midlands and Matabeleland provinces has issued the government a two-week ultimatum to resolve grievances of the health workers or face a ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:27hrs | 10 | 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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt tightens screws on nurses
GOVERNMENT has tightened screws on nurses wishing to resign from the civil service as it battles to stem the massive exodus of health workers.Hundreds of nurses are leaving the country for gre...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi defends Health Bill
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has defended the Health Services Bill in Parliament, saying it will improve the lives of public health workers.The Health Services Amendment Bill is now at the...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurse aid certificate the new gold for Zimbabweans
FOR 35-year-old Lorraine Siziba, attaining a nurse aid's certificate is nudging her closer to achieving her goals.Siziba has never been formally employed since completing a Bachelor's degree f...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's major hospitals without substantive CEOs for 2 years
Zimbabwe's major hospitals are operating with acting CEOs nearly two years after the health services board conducted interviews, ZimLive can reveal.Five CEOs at Zimbabwe's major public hospita...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Nurses abandon night duties
GOVERNMENT-EMPLOYED nurses have stopped taking night duties declaring incapacitation and negligence by their employer, putting lives of patients at risk.Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) pres...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health workers down tools
ZIMBABWE'S troubled health sector is headed for paralysis after doctors, radiographers, nurses and other specialists yesterday boycotted on-call and night duties citing incapacitation.This cam...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Renewed exodus of healthcare workers hits Zimbabwe
Earlier this year, Johnson Chegore, 33, resigned from his job as a nurse at a government hospital in the Zimbabwean capital Harare before he left for the UK.In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-larg...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 06:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Fear triggers Zimbabwe nurses exodus
HEALTH workers yesterday said intimidation by government without addressing their welfare concerns would not work, adding that this was the main reason the country was experiencing brain drain in the ...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 06:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bill outlaws strike action for health workers
THE Health Services Amendment Bill, which will outlaw industrial action by health workers lasting more than three days and upgrade the Health Services Board to a Commission is now before Parliament....Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC unveils election roadmap
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission says it was ready to conduct the forthcoming by-elections and has unveiled a roadmap which include voter education, production of election material, training of polli...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa receives his Covid-19 booster shot
Setting an example to highlight both the importance and safety of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, President Mnangagwa and several Cabinet ministers received their booster Covid-19 vaccine shots re...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
No US$ bonus for nurses
HEALTH professionals have expressed disgruntlement after some of them allegedly received their bonuses in local currency while other civil servants were struggling to access their 13th cheques at loca...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Blacklist for tender cheats
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is looking at blacklisting tender cheats despite improvements in the processes that have seen all suppliers having to be vetted before they are allowed t...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:10hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
US$ bonus: Civil servants demand more
CIVIL servants yesterday attacked the United Stated dollar-denominated bonus as not enough, with teacher unions warning that it would not stop them from going on strike beginning Monday.Civil ...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe re-engages retired nurses
GOVERNMENT has turned to retired nurses and training of Primary Care Nurses (PCNs) as a solution to the massive brain drain currently bleeding the country's health sector, the Zimbabwe Independent can...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
88 retired nurses recruited
So far 88 retired nurses have been recruited by the Health Services Board as it works to increase the public sector health care workforce in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.The recruitment o...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Health personnel exodus hits public hospitals
HEALTH workers, particularly nurses, are deserting public health institutions in droves amid a surge in demand for their skills abroad in a development that has further plunged Zimbabwe's healthcare s...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt recruits 700 retired nurses
GOVERNMENT has started recruiting retired nurses who are set to join the national Covid-19 vaccination programme, with around 700 former nurses expected to be drafted into the programme over the next ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets herd immunity by year-end
The government has further intensified the vaccination of citizens against the Covid-19 pandemic targeting to reach the 60 percent herd immunity at a time when cumulative infections stand at over 100 ...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt bars unvaccinated officials from events
GOVERNMENT has barred unvaccinated officials from attending next week's key national events, including Heroes and Defence Forces Day celebrations, to curb the spread of COVID-19 virus.Cabinet ...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses banned from striking
DOCTORS and nurses working in public health institutions will no longer be allowed to go on strike for an uninterrupted period spanning more than three days under proposed changes to the Health Servic...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga blasts 'ignorant' retail pharmacists
VICE-PrESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday blasted retail pharmacists saying they lacked knowledge of the Public Health Act after they sent a petition to Parliament demanding to be considered for g...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: No compensation for unvaccinated health workers
Unvaccinated health workers who contract Covid-19 in the line of duty after July 14 will no longer receive special compensation which the Government has been paying those affected, while the 80 percen...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
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