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Zimbabwe police receive donation of 11 empty drums
Proton Bakers today donated 11 drums to the Bulawayo Police Traffic Section to support road safety at roadblocks. The handover ceremony, held at the Bulawayo Central Traffic Police Station, was attend...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 16:17hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni Hospital promotes mental health in workplaces with campaign walk
Ingutsheni Hospital in Bulawayo held a belated World Mental Health Day event on Thursday, organizing a campaign walk to promote mental health in workplaces. The initiative comes in response to growing...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 12:12hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Govt, Bulawayo turn abandoned buildings into drug rehab centres
The government, in collaboration with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), has embarked on an initiative to identify and renovate abandoned buildings for use as rehabilitation centres for drug abusers. Th...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:56hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni overwhelmed by abandoned patients
AUTHORITIES at Zimbabwe's largest psychiatric hospital, Ingutsheni in Bulawayo, have accused families of dumping their loved ones who are suffering from mental health issues at the facility, resulting...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor to hold Christmas visits to hospitals
BULAWAYO MAYOR Senator David Coltart will be holding Christmas Visits to the Hospitals and a Mayor's Christmas Cheer fund lunch with Sandra Jones on Monday, 18 December 2023The council in a no...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 21:40hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
Overcrowding crisis hits Ingutsheni Hospital
BULAWAYO's Ingutsheni mental hospital has become overcrowded, triggering a serious shortage of blankets.A Bulawayo resident, who recently visited the health institution to see a relative, said...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Married woman disrupts church service, accuses Priest of having an affair
A Roman Catholic Priest stationed at St Bernard's Parish in Bulawayo's Old Pumula suburb has been drawn into potentially explosive infidelity accusations after a married woman stormed a church service...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Patient kills inmate at Ingutsheni Central Hospital
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of murder by a pschiatric patient which happened at Ingutsheni psychiatric hospital yesterday In a tweet, the police confirmed the case. "A ...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 16:58hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Suspected wizards/witches usually found at people's homes suffer from mental health
THE grey-haired, half naked and stumbling elderly individuals who are usually found at people homes in the wee hours are not all wizards and witches but some suffer from mental health.A family...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 4 | 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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Nust donates Mnangagwa's biography to libraries
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) yesterday donated President Mnangagwa's biography to 36 libraries in Bulawayo so that school children and the youth can be inspired to lead....Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Liquor hubs should contribute funds to psychiatric centres
Bulawayo residents have appealed to Liquor hubs owned by deputy minister Raji Modi to contribute a certain amount towards the psychiatric centres like Ingutsheni hospital to help victims of substance ...Published: 09 May 2022 at 15:10hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
UBH records no COVID-19 admissions
UNITED Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH), which was designated as one of the COVID-19 centres in the province, has revealed that currently the unit has no admitted patients.UBH acting chief executive N...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We will protest rigged elections!' promised Chamisa - but why keep participating, it's insane
Insanity comes in all manner of degrees and disguises but have two things in common; one, it is mind bogglingly repetitive. Or as the great physicist Albert Einstein aptly put it, "insanity is doing t...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 19:17hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
UBH, Ingutsheni health staff recover from COVID-19
HEALTH workers at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) and Ingutsheni Mental Hospital, who tested positive for COVID-19 virus late last year, have recovered.This was revealed by UBH chief executive...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni dedicates ward for drug addicts rehab
INGUTSHENI Hospital has announced plans to establish a drug addict rehabilitation centre at the psychiatric institution after the government raised alarm over rampant drug abuse in the country....Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 22:21hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Court orders appointment of mental health board
The Bulawayo High Court has ordered President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga to urgently appoint a special mental health board and tribunal respectively for Mlondolozi Mental ...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mazibuko reflects on mental health fight
POPULAR Bulawayo-based modelling guru and Strides Modelling Agency founder, Sipho Mazibuko has revealed that pressure around her once popular Miss Rural Zimbabwe helped trigger the bipolar disorder th...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:53hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 hits vaccinated Ingutsheni staff, inmates
INGUTSHENI Central Mental Hospital in Bulawayo has recorded 15 COVID-19 positive cases among its staff and inmates although they are fully vaccinated.The issue was confirmed yesterday by Ingut...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Part of Ingutsheni to be turned into a residential area
Part of the land occupied by Ingutsheni Psychiatric Hospital is set to be developed into a residential area, according to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s Southern Central Areas Local Development Pla...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni hospital overcrowded
ZIMBABWE'S biggest psychiatric institution Ingutsheni Central Hospital in Bulawayo is reportedly overcrowded, a situation that exposes inmates to COVID-19 as they cannot practise social distancing....Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Ingutsheni Hospital safe from COVID-19'
INGUTSHENI Hospital chief executive Nemache Mawere yesterday said the mental health institution was safe from the COVID-19 pandemic after introducing the "no COVID-19 certificate, no admission" princi...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo fights 'false' rape allegations by modelling agency boss
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo on Monday pushed back against "false and outrageous" allegations that he raped a former model and beauty pageant organiser over a decade ago.State media r...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC to take action on illegal cropping
Bulawayo City Council has said it will destroy, without compensation, crops grown in unauthorised places. In a statement, Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube said the practice is against the Protec...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe facing shortage of psychiatrists
ZIMBABWE needs to recruit more psychiatrists to deal divisively with the mental health challenges facing most citizens.Recent statistics showed that the country, with a population of over 14 m...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakwazi petitions govt
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) claims Ingutsheni Hospital in Bulawayo recently employed 11 general hands from outside Matabeleland, a move it says is tantamount to marginalisation of people from t...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Galen House Medical Centre founder dies
PROMINENT medical practitioner and former Bulawayo City Council councillor, Dr Garry Ferguson, who founded Galen House and Medical Centre in the city, has died. He was 89. Dr Ferguson ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 00:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suicide and Depression - The answer is Jesus Christ more than any other solution!
I am sure everyone at some point has seen the phrase: Jesus is the answer! There is no question asked but that is the phrase given as pointing to the answer. Indeed, people need the Lord and this Lord...Published: 07 May 2019 at 12:01hrs | 4 | by Pastor Tomson Dube
Man 'axes' wife, hangs self
A SILOBELA man fatally struck his sleeping wife with an axe on the head before committing suicide after discovering she was taking contraceptive pills without his knowledge. Busani Mandava (35...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mpilo, Ingutsheni relegate nurses training to Zanu-PF'
Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Thembani Maphosa has accused Mpilo Central Hospital and Ingutsheni Hospital of allegedly relegating the recruitment of nurses training to only Zanu PF linked students....Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Baby dumper arrested after two years on the run
A BULAWAYO woman who has been on the run for two years after dumping her two children outside a pub and going to live with "boyfriends" has been arrested. A court heard Thandiwe Dube (27) left...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC warns of prolonged water cuts
THE Bulawayo City Council has warned that there could be prolonged unscheduled water cuts in all suburbs mainly due to erratic electricity supply at its waterworks.In a statement the Town Cler...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Disruption of refuse collection on election day in Bulawayo
The City of Bulawayo has advised residents that due to the Election Day which has been promulgated as a national holiday, all areas whose refuse was supposed to be collected on Monday, 30 July 2018 wi...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:45hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mphoko's Choppies fails to pay Zimra
THE government has distributed to Bulawayo hospitals foodstuff confiscated from former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's trucks at Beitbridge border post by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA)....Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Man claims healing miracle for mental illness
A 48-YEAR-OLD man claims he used to be mentally unstable but has been healed.Simbarashe Gurajena from Nguboyenja in Bulawayo showed B-Metro his hospital records that prove he has been in and o...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 22:25hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Fired nurses re-hired
GOVERNMENT has re-engaged fired nurses and hired more health practitioners in a development that is expected to improve service delivery at the country's health institutions.The Health Service...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills father over insults
A 22-year-old Mberengwa man has confessed to fatally striking his father with an axe, saying he could not stand his continued insults whenever he got drunk.Albert Ranganai of Manhanda Village ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
New dangerous and addictive drug hits Bulawayo streets
A DANGEROUS and addictive drug called diazepam - popularly known as "dypapa" or "amangemba" in street lingo - has hit the streets of Bulawayo, with anti-drugs campaigners raising the red flag....Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni patient allegedly kills inmate
A PATIENT at Ingutsheni Hospital in Bulawayo has been dragged to court for allegedly killing an inmate following a dispute over tobacco.Bulisani Sibanda was yesterday not asked to plead to...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare supporters donate to Ingutsheni hospital
BULAWAYO-based Dynamos supporters took time yesterday to spruce up part of the grounds at Ingutsheni Central Hospital and also donated foodstuffs to the institution.The Dembare Bulawayo ch...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Son allegedly chops mother to death
A gruesome murder has left residents of Emganwini's suburb in Bulawayo on the edge after a woman was found in a pool of blood yesterday (Tuesday) morning with allegations that his son chopped her ...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 18:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates to Ingutsheni
Four Bulawayo charity organisations and Ingutsheni Central Hospital on Friday received $21 000 worth of food and groceries donated by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa during his visit to the city...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives to needy
FOUR Bulawayo charity organisations and Ingutsheni Central Hospital yesterday received $21 000 worth of food and groceries donated by Vice President Mnangagwa during his visit to the city last wee...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rescures starving Ingutsheni patients
Vice President Mnangagwa has come to the rescue of hundreds starving patients at Ingutsheni Central Hospital by donating five tonnes of mealie meal.Early January, patients at the hospita...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 03:29hrs | | by Alice Dube
Thugs hijack taxi, shoots driver
TWO Gwanda men allegedly lured a taxi driver to Matsheumhlope in Bulawayo where they shot him in the leg, tied his legs and hands, stole more than R8 000 from him before dumping him along Old Esig...Published: 01 Nov 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shocking: 'Woman dies, resurrects, dies again'
MOST people wish they could get a chance to know the day they will die or rather to wake up from the dead so that they can express their final wishes to their loved ones.But it seems one w...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 20:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mayhem as mental hospital runs out of sedative drugs
Ingutsheni Central Hospital in Bulawayo has run out of sedative drugs, which are important in suppressing violent behaviour in psychiatric patients. Staff at the hospital said last week, two nurses we...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 07:31hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Ingutsheni staff beat up mental patient
THE High Court has quashed a two-year jail term for three Ingutsheni Central Hospital workers who were convicted of assaulting a mental patient for refusing to eat isitshwala resulting in him losing t...Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Dabengwa sets Mphoko's war record straight
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko did not abandon the liberation struggle to be with his wife, as claimed by the embattled War Veterans Association chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa, Zipra's former inte...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
I'm not a deserter says Mphoko
ACTING President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday scoffed at embattled war veterans chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa's claims that he deserted his comrades in Mozambique at the height of the liberation str...Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 09:27hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
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