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Booster jabs for elderly, front liners
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday announced that Covid-19 booster shots can be given to those fully vaccinated as there are enough stocks already in the country for everyone with more coming, as a way of ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mudyiwa basks in Champions League award
IT'S been barely six years since Black Rhinos Queens star Precious Mudyiwa got her first taste of competitive football, but such has been the remarkable rise in the sport that she was last week named ...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga distances govt from vaccine controversy
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has backtracked on its intention to file a lawsuit against the government after Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga distanced himself from a recent stateme...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says Zimbabwe could consider mandatory inoculation against COVID-19 following resistance from some sections of the population. Zimbabwe rolled out the...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
No to vaccine experiments, says lawyers
LAWYERS have rejected the use of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Zimbabweans without clinical trials to ascertain its efficacy and safety, which they said is tantamount to "experimenting".In...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trials before vaccination, demands Rights lawyers
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) wants government to conduct clinical trials of the Sinopharm vaccine and other Covid-19 drugs before administering the jabs on the population.Howev...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes U-turn on UK free vaccine offer?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday further extended the lockdown by another two weeks with government saying it was not clear on the efficacy of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine received from China ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa further extends lockdown
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday further extended the lockdown by another two weeks with government saying it was not clear on the efficacy of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine received from China ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccines arrive
THE first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, which arrive in the country early tomorrow morning, will undergo rigorous examination by a team of local multidisciplinary experts over the next 48 hours after ar...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga fires NatPharm board, officials
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has dissolved the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) board, while ministry principal director Gibson Mhlanga is in trouble over a Covid-...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to supervise funerals
The Government is set to supervise all funerals in communities to reduce the spread of Covid-19. This comes after the soaring number in Covid-19 cases, which has claimed more than 1 200 lives ...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF is trapped and demanding negotiations at gun point' - how naive, it's povo that's trapped and dying like flies
There are some very confused people out there who are calling for political dialogue as the way forward but have no idea who should be demanding change much less what that change should be. All the ar...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:21hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe private hospitals not reporting Covid-19 stats
SOME private and public hospitals in the country have been accused of not providing the Government with Covid-19 statistics, a move that the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on health described as sc...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | | 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 | 12 | 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 | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to buy Covid-19 virus shots for two-thirds of population
THE government has backtracked on its earlier position to purchase Covid-19 vaccines for top officials only and now plans to buy drugs to inoculate two-thirds of the population, amid a surge in infect...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 vaccine only for the chefs
GOVERNMENT yesterday revealed that it was failing to import enough vaccines for citizens, and would prioritise Cabinet ministers and senior government officials, Members of Parliament (MPs), the secur...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets vaccine offers from Russia, China
Russia and China have approached Zimbabwe about supplying vaccines to tackle its escalating Covid-19 outbreak amid concern about Harare's ability to afford the shots, with plans for meetings with busi...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe govt in talks with China, Russia for Covid-19 vaccine
THE Government is set to vaccinate at least 80 percent of the population once negotiations with potential suppliers of the vaccine, China, Russia and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been comp...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Toddler drowns
A SIX-YEAR-OLD Nyazura child drowned in Mucheke River after slipping from a rock while playing with her friend on Friday last week.Manicaland deputy police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Lu...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube begs doctors to end strike
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday said Government had done all it could for now to address the grievances of striking junior doctors as he appealed to them to ...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors struck off the payroll
Negotiations meant to end the nearly 2-week-long strike by junior doctors have suffered a blow after hitches in the payment of the doctors' December salaries.The junior doctors were supposed t...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya savaged over HIV claims
Government yesterday led the criticism of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) leader Walter Magaya after the charismatic preacher sensationally claimed at the weekend that he had found a cure for ...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe runs out of critical drugs
Zimbabwe has run out of critical medical drugs, among them painkillers, TB, cancer and Hypertension tablets-raising fears of a gigantic crisis similar to the one experienced in 2008- when public hospi...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex shortage hits essential drugs supply
The Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe (PSZ) has raised a red flag over the worsening shortage of essential drugs, warning there is only a few weeks supply in their reserves.PSZ president Port...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls medicinal cannabis pilot programme
Government is planning to carry out a medicinal cannabis pilot programme following the legalisation for the production of the plant in April this year.The legalisation of the production of mar...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe freezes doctors' employment
Government has frozen medical doctors' employment with effect from next month as the posts have been filled up, prompting the class completing its internship next month to demand their open practi...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patients stranded as hospital's only radiographer dies
Scores of patients were left stranded at Masvingo General Hospital this week after the death of the health facilities' only radiographer Brighton Vaduma who drowned in a swimming pool at a local hotel...Published: 15 May 2015 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Herbalist receives death threats
ST PETERS Diagnostic Centre - a private complimentary medicine and herbal clinic owned by Cephas Gwamure (40) is slowly but surely becoming Masvingo's busiest clinic amid revelations that around 400 p...Published: 10 May 2015 at 10:12hrs | | by Golden Maunganidze
Office shifted as Mahofa fails to climb stairs
Minister of State for Masvingo, Shuvai Mahofa who cannot walk up the stairs to her second floor offices at Burombo building because of advanced age and ill health has occupied the Provincial Medi...Published: 24 Apr 2015 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
16 horror crash victims named
The death toll in the road accident involving a commuter omnibus and a truck along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway on Monday has risen to 19 after one more passenger died yesterday upon admission at U...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
A cholera outbreak has hit Chiredzi with five cases recorded so far, Masvingo provincial medical superintended Dr Robert Mudyirandima has said.Dr Mudyirandima said the five cases were of members from ...Published: 04 Dec 2013 at 02:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Over 10,000 hit by sexually transmitted infections
Over 10 000 people in Masvingo province have contracted sexually transmitted infections within three months from April to June this year.The high incidence of STIs comes in the wake of fears ...Published: 02 Oct 2013 at 05:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zim hospital runs out of antibiotics
A severe shortage of certain critical drugs has hit Masvingo General Hospital, compromising health delivery to thousands of people who rely on the institution.The hospital has reportedly been ...Published: 28 Sep 2013 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hospital detains patients over hospital bills
MASVINGO General Hospital is allegedly detaining patients who fail to settle their hospital bills in a bid to force them to pay.Scores of patients admitted to the referral hospital have suffer...Published: 17 Apr 2013 at 05:26hrs | | by Masvingo Correspondent
Rats deface corpse at Marondera Hospital
A Mutoko family was left furious because they had to forgo the body viewing tradition of their relative Zacharious Nyakudanga (54). The deceased was defaced by rats at Marondera Hospital and the fam...Published: 30 Jun 2011 at 04:02hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Masvingo Hospitals Runs Out of BCG Vaccine
Some of Zimbabwe's hospitals and clinics in Masvingo have run out of the BCG vaccine which is used to prevent mainly tuberculosis in children under the age of five years old. ...Published: 14 Dec 2010 at 17:18hrs | | by Byo24
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