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When the rich fight over the poor
A SLEEK Toyota Prado VX V8 off-road vehicle makes a rumbling sound along a gravel road as it negotiates its way into the poverty-stricken Chihota communal areas.A group of people, mainly Zanu-...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 17:06hrs | 752 | by Jairos Saunyama
Malaria kills 39
LATEST reports from Health and Child Care ministry have shown that malaria has claimed 39 lives in the country, while 17 623 are suffering from the disease.Malaria is a preventable and treatab...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:26hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga should act on health licence fees
REGULATORY authorities are some of the major cost drivers of health service delivery in our country.With health financing mainly out-of-pocket, achieving universal health coverage (UHC) become...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:34hrs | 892 | by Johannes Marisa
Zimbabwe face mask rules relaxed
Zimbabweans who received two doses of Covid-19 vaccines are no longer required to wear face masks in public, according to new regulations gazetted on Friday.In terms of Statutory Instrum...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:53hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe health sector deepens
AUDITOR-GENERAL (AG) Mildred Chiri has exposed the rot in the country's health sector, where there is serious understaffing and shortages of equipment with no ambulances having been procured between 2...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
'1 500 Zimbabwe women die giving birth'
AT least four women are dying every day while giving birth in Zimbabwe and the country has recorded a staggering 121 078 deaths in the last 12 months, according to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Age...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Bodies rot at Zimbabwe mortuaries as power cuts worsen
ROLLING power cuts being experienced across the country have severely affected operations of the country's hospitals with reports that mortuaries are struggling to contain decomposing bodies.Z...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Beware of monkeypox
GOVERNMENT has been urged to be vigilant after over 80 monkeypox cases were detected in 12 European countries.Monkeypox is a viral infection mostly common in central and west Africa.Ca...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 319 | 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 | 1641 | by Staff reporter
Sex 'booster' takes Harare by storm
THIRTY-TWO-year-old Takunda Dube says he has been battling erectile dysfunction and decreased libido since he was 21.The condition is common, but can be a frustrating and embarrassing experien...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:34hrs | 2129 | 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 | 5272 | by Staff reporter
Doctors want share in medical facilities
Medical practitioners are lobbying the government to give doctors 51% shareholding at medical facilities in order to allow fair practice in the medical sector.This came to light after there wa...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:24hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Health financing tops doctors' indaba
PRIVATE medical practitioners drawn from across the country will this weekend meet in Mutare for their annual conference to discuss health financing, and the possibility of a fifth wave of the COVID-1...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wary of drug resistant strains
ZIMBABWE doubled up effort to improve access to essential medicine and drug regulations as the United Nations warns of increasing numbers of people dying from drug resistant infections.The Uni...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Private doctors approach Mnangagwa over land
PRIVATE medical players under the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners Association of Zimbabwe (MDPPAZ) banner have asked President Emmerson Mnangagwa to expedite issuance of land to their members...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in race against time to exhaust stockpiles of Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe is battling against time to administer over 14 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that are already in its stocks amid concerns of public complacency and hesitancy, it has been established....Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 3 000 cancer cases annually
CERVICAL cancer has become a major health concern among Zimbabwean women where an average of 3 000 cases are recorded each year, health experts have observed.Cervical cancer constitutes about ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:49hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 might end this year: WHO
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the COVID-19 pandemic might end this year provided that countries make concerted efforts to vaccinate their populations and implement other lifesaving meas...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:49hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Surge in COVID-19 admissions worries govt
GOVERNMENT yesterday expressed concern over increasing COVID-19 hospital admissions.This was revealed at a post-Cabinet media briefing by Information and Publicity minister Monica Mutsvangwa, ...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:00hrs | 607 | 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 | 363 | by Staff reporter
'5th COVID-19 wave brewing'
LOCAL health experts have warned of a brewing fifth wave of COVID-19 following a spike in new cases in schools since the beginning of the first term nearly two weeks ago.According to latest st...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:35hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Private doctors, medical aid societies square off
PRIVATE medical doctors have threatened to turn away patients on medical aid until they have been paid for their services.Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association presi...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe one of biggest labour exporters to UK
UNITED Kingdom's National Health Services (NHS) has revealed that Zimbabwe is one of its biggest exporters of labour in the health sector, ranking it as the second country after Nigeria in terms of th...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 2921 | by Staff reporter
Govt gives guidelines on booster shots
GOVERNMENT has authorised administering of COVID-19 booster shots beginning with frontline workers, Health and Child Care ministry secretary Jasper Chimedza has said.Chimedza said frontline wo...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:13hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 paralyses Parly business
PARLIAMENT business ground to a standstill on Wednesday as legislators argued over whether the House should adjourn due to rising COVID-19 cases.The issue was raised as a matter of privilege b...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:52hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Govt imposes mandatory quarantine
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday imposed mandatory quarantine for returning citizens and foreigners entering the country and tightened lockdown measures amid concern over the new COVID-19 Omicro...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ready for new COVID-19 variant
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday urged citizens not to panic in the wake of the new deadly COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.529, detected in neighbouring South Africa and Botswana, saying governme...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 08:05hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Brain drain too rampant in the health sector
IN 1963, the first medical school in then Rhodesia was established and was affiliated to the University of Birmingharm. This followed the establishment of University of Rhodesia in 1952, which was fun...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 12 | by Johannes Marisa
COVID-19 vaccination rate tumbles
ZIMBABWE'S average weekly COVID-19 vaccination rate last week fell to its lowest since July, prompting fears that the country could be vulnerable to a fourth wave of the killer virus.A fortnig...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives private doctors farms
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is offering land to medical practitioners in private practice drawn from across the country's 10 provinces.Close to 372 medical practitioners under the Medical and...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:43hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Schools demand COVID-19 certificates after outbreaks
SOME schools around the country are demanding that pupils produce COVID-19-free certificates before they are admitted for the last term of the year following outbreaks within the first week of reopeni...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 fourth wave imminent'
HEALTH experts have warned that Zimbabwe faces a fourth wave of deadly COVID-19 virus if the country fails to get more people inoculated, and that a third jab might be needed to help fight off emergin...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Shocking bills for Covid-19 patients
Most private hospitals offering Covid-19 treatment are turning the pandemic into an economic and psychological nightmare for patients, with some of the institutions charging admission fees of up to US...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals overwhelmed
MEDICAL practitioners have urged government to consider establishing makeshift health centres for COVID-19 admissions as the country's health institutions are inundated with severe cases needing hospi...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Health Services Act very oppressive, says doctors
MEDICAL doctors yesterday blasted the newly-gazetted amendments to the Health Services Act saying the proposed law was very oppressive as it contained stringent measures that bar them from engaging in...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Children not safe from Covid-19: Experts
CHILDREN in the country are said to be increasingly getting vulnerable to Covid-19 as infections continue to soar with the virus killing thousands, medical experts have warned.This followed re...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt pins hopes on vaccination as cases continue to soar
GOVERNMENT says it will intensify the vaccination programme to effectively fight the pandemic, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa setting a target of one million shots in two weeks to achieve 60% herd ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is 3 months behind COVID-19'
LOCAL health experts yesterday noted that Zimbabwe was three months behind the ever-mutating COVID-19 virus, and suggested that the best brains were now required to tame the tide.This came as ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Many COVID-19 deaths unreported'
ZIMBABWE'S rising COVID-19 cases could be just a tip of the iceberg, with more sick people going untested, with some succumbing to the lethal virus unrecorded, health experts said yesterday.Th...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Vaccines failing to match new COVID-19 variants'
WORLD Health Organisation director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the world was at a dangerous point in its fight against COVID-19 as vaccines were failing to stem the tide against...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa breaking own rules, protocols
ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week announced Level 4 lockdown restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19, but glaring violations of regulations by top government officials, including him...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 could hit 50% of population'
THE COVID-19 situation in the country could worsen, with about half of the country's population of 15 million at risk of contracting the virus if there is no strict enforcement of lockdown measures, m...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Travel agent shunts foreigners to Zimbabwe for COVID-19 jabs
A SOUTH AFRICAN travel agent is reportedly making a killing by bringing South Africans to Zimbabwe for COVID-19 vaccination in a scheme that involves some government officials and a local private hosp...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 19:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
3rd wave triggers stampede for vaccination
THE COVID-19 third wave, already wreaking havoc in the country, has triggered a stampede for vaccines, with statistics showing a fourfold increase in the number of people being inoculated across the c...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: 3rd wave takes hold
ZIMBABWE is facing crunch time in its battle to curb rising COVID-19 infections and deaths as the third wave grips the country, medical experts said yesterday. This comes after the World Healt...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
3rd wave could overwhelm Africa, claims WHO
THE third wave of COVID-19 infections could potentially be devastating for Africa at a time when the continent is experiencing a severe shortage of vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has wa...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:26hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Zimbabwe COVID-19 cases surge
GOVERNMENT yesterday called for more vigilance amid rising cases of COVID-19, with health experts expressing concern over government priorities after it spurned a single dose vaccine manufactured by U...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Private doctors charge US$40 for COVID-19 jab
SOME private medical doctors are reportedly charging fees for citizens to get the COVID19 jab, a development which health experts yesterday said was likely to trigger profiteering in the country's vac...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 third wave panic hits Zimbabwe
HEALTH experts yesterday warned of a dire situation ahead as the third wave of COVID-19, which has reportedly hit the country in the face of threats posed by the South African and new Indian variants ...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:12hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Doctors rally behind Mpilo fire victims
Private medical practitioners under the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe association (MDPPZa) have started mobilising resources to assist doctors whose residence quarters were burn...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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