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WHO, Unicef dismiss anti-Zimbabwe report
Two major United Nations (UN) agencies have dismissed as false and malicious, reports in some sections of the private media claiming they have been barred by the Government from participating in Zimba...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 07:35hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Govt axes WHO, Unicef from Zimbabwe Covid activities
GOVERNMENT has suspended the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) from participating in Covid-19 programmes, in an unprecedented move that may have farreachi...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:51hrs | 4597 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt concealing COVID-19 statistics'
HEALTH professionals have accused government of allegedly concealing COVID-19 statistics in the country to give the impression that the virulent disease was under control at a time it has ballooned ou...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:37hrs | 2494 | by Staff reporter
Public hospitals' Covid-19 testing shambolic
CLAIMS by government that public health institutions have the capacity to handle all Covid-19 cases in the country and that they were also equipped to conduct mass screening, including testing for the...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:39hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Fight over new Covid drug
Doctors are divided over the use of Ivermectin with some saying that its use could be lethal while others are saying its worth trying. This comes after Government granted the College of Primar...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 2782 | by Staff reporter
Panicky Mnangagwa gives nod to controversial Covid-19 drug
JOLTED into action by the tragic loss of four ministers, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has approved mass importation of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin to battle Covid-19.Covid-...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:12hrs | 2678 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe approves anti-parasitic COVID-19 drug
GOVERNMENT has approved mass importation of the veterinary anti-parasitic drug, Ivermectin, as it battles the second wave of COVID-19 infections which have rattled President Emmerson Mnangagwa's admin...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:58hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Doctor feels vindicated on COVID-19 drug
UNDERFIRE MEDICAL doctor Jackie Stone who has been accused by her colleagues in the medical fraternity for reportedly prescribing unorthodox COVID-19 therapy yesterday said she had been vindicated aft...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:34hrs | 2566 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe testing COVID-19 'drug'
GOVERNMENT is clinically testing anti-parasite drug, Ivermectin in a bid to establish its efficacy in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The second wave of COVID-19 currently affecting the countr...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:08hrs | 2920 | by Staff reporter
Nurses demand risk allowance
NURSES have accused the government of depriving them of the COVID-19 risk allowance several months after they were promised the stipend.Government offered to pay allowances for health workers ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:02hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals buckle under Covid-19 strain
Hospitals in Zimbabwe are reeling from a renewed surge in the coronavirus, with a shortage of beds and equipment threatening to overwhelm the public health system.The Health Ministry on Tuesda...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 16:18hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Nurses seek to pin down Chiwenga
THE Zimbabwe Nurses' Association (Zina) has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking leave to execute, pending appeal, an order granted in its favour over a dispute with the gover...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:35hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Repentant nurses reinstated on payroll
More than 1 000 nurses removed from the monthly pay sheets for not working standard hours are being reinstated after apologising to the Government and reverting to normal duty shifts. Last mon...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:08hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga left with egg on face
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantine Chiwenga has been left with egg on the face after the High Court gave nurses a green light to continue working flexible hours which the VP in his capacity as the Health mini...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 2083 | by Staff reporter
Sally Mugabe nurses apologises to Chiwenga
Nurses at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital have publicly broken with the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina), resolved to resume normal shifts and most have apologised to the Government for disruptions in...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:25hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Nurses to work flexible hours
NURSES can continue working flexible hours despite the noting of an appeal by the government against an earlier High Court decision granting that permission.This comes after High Court judge J...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 20:43hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage hits Zimbabwe
A shipment of Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs meant for Zimbabwe will not be arriving in time due to Covid -19 induced delays, forcing the Ministry of Health and Child Care to reduce its six-month multi-dr...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2923 | by Staff reporter
1,200 defiant nurses struck off payroll
MORE than 1 200 nurses who failed to comply with a Government directive to revert to the normal working hours did not receive their November salaries and bonuses after they were struck off the payroll...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's corruption crack team targets Chiwenga?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his political fixers are trying to nail Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga over his ally, Deputy health minister John Mangwiro's scandal of coercing state-owned medic...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:56hrs | 19888 | by Staff reporter
Nurses plead for dialogue
ZIMBABWE Nurses Association (Zina) has written to the government seeking to have dialogue to solve their differences.This comes after the High Court on Friday gave temporary relief to nurses a...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
Trainee nurses recruitment 'controversy' resurfaces
Activists in Matabeleland have once again lambasted the trainee nurses recruitment system following revelations that only two out of the 45 successful applicants for the Mpilo Central Hospital School ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over nurses suspension
THERE is confusion in the handling of the cases of over 1 000 nurses whose suspension was ordered by government as some health institutions are reportedly reinstating them.About 1 280 nurses w...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 3682 | by Staff reporter
Nurses approach High Court over Chiwenga's flexi-hours
GOVERNMENT should brace for bruising court battles as nurses have approached the High Court seeking an interdict to halt their employer from implementing the "unlawful"removal of flexible working ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:36hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
500 nurses served with suspension letters
GOVERNMENT has served close to 500 nurses from Bulawayo's two major hospitals with suspension letters for not reporting for duty and they are expected to appear before a disciplinary hearing next week...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses defiant as situation deteriorates
NURSES have defiantly said they will continue working flexible hours as the situation in hospitals has deteriorated more than before.This comes after the government has threatened to fire nurs...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 16:23hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga accused of using command tactics
NURSES have confronted Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who doubles as Health minister over his decision to reverse their working hours.Early this year nurses reached an agreement with the...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 13203 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, nurses clash over flexi hours ban
NURSES have objected to the decision by the Health ministry to scrap the flexible working hours system so that they can work for 40 hours a week.Health secretary Jasper Chimedza on October 19 ...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:59hrs | 2696 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga bans flexi-hours
A SHOWDOWN is looming between health workers and the government after the Health ministry banned flexi-hours which will see nurses working everyday instead of selected days per week.In a lette...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 17:12hrs | 3259 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ministry rocked by salaries scam
THE profligate President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration is spending millions of dollars per month on double salaries and allowances for senior officials in the Ministry of Health and Child Care des...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 11125 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt disowns conscription order
GOVERNMENT has disowned a circular circulating on social media platforms directing recently-qualified doctors to enrol as soldiers under the Defence ministry if they are to be allowed to practise anyw...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:32hrs | 4606 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga cracks whip
GOVERNMENT has set tough measures for doctors intending to leave the country and also ordered the closure of three programmes at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)'s medical school in a move viewed as pu...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:15hrs | 9692 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospital to open traditional Chinese medicine clinic
Zimbabwe's largest referral hospital here has established a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinic and is applying for an official license to open, according to the country's ministry of health and...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 05:32hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
'Medical aid societies should accommodate low income earners'
THE Ministry of Health has challenged medical aid societies to structure their products in such a way that they are affordable to low-income earners, as healthcare costs continue to rise beyond the re...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:23hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses disappointed with Chiwenga
DOCTORS and nurses are disappointed that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga - the new minister of Health and Child Care - is yet to meet them to end their industrial action.In addition, they ...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:15hrs | 6296 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga still to meet doctors, nurses
The new Minister of Health, Constantino Chiwenga is yet to meet doctors and nurses to address the challenges plaguing the country's public health system. The Zimbabwe Nurses Association said t...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:32hrs | 4024 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's shock move: Details emerge
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga opted to take over the Health and Child Care portfolio following differences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the sacked Obadiah Moyo's successor, it has emer...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 34180 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga best hands to cure ailing health sector'
SMALL and Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was ideal for the highly demanding health ministry portfolio.President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesda...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:12hrs | 1877 | by newzimbabwe
Doctors, nurses hail Chiwenga appointment
DOCTORS and nurses yesterday welcomed the appointment Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga as Health minister and Jasper Chimedza as the ministry's secretary, saying they hoped the two would work towar...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 11642 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance criticise appointment of unqualified Chiwenga
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday appointed his deputy Constantino Chiwenga as the new health minister, tasking him with reforming a decaying health sector amid a rise in Covid-19 infections and...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 22:23hrs | 4158 | by Reuters
Mnangagwa appoints top soldier as Ministry of Health Boss
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Air Commodore Jasper Chimedza as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child Care. He takes over from Agnes Mahomva who was moved to head...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 18:06hrs | 10810 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's great escape: The details
THE episode reads like a scene from a James Bond movie. It has all the ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster.There are aspects of stealthy manoeuvres, guns, money, confrontation and drama as...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 01:57hrs | 17368 | by Staff reporter
Woman drags two doctors to court claiming $1,5 million
A HARARE woman has taken two doctors to court claiming $1,5 million in damages for the injuries she allegedly sustained while undergoing surgery at a private hospital two years ago.The woman, ...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 04:22hrs | 2833 | by Staff Reporter
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