Search / Nurses
NRZ clinics offer COVID-19 vaccinations
The Government has given the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) permission to provide Covid-19 Vaccines to NRZ employees at its clinics.Vaccination of employees at the workplace has already s...Published: 11 hrs ago | 358 | by Staff reporter
Toponymic identity in Bulawayo and the need to recognise Black women
Histories of many states and nations in the world are generally histories of men and in some cases a few outstanding women, seemingly those whose absence in the historical narrative may discredit hist...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 14:42hrs | 532 | by Staff
Mnangagwa orders schools to reopen
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended level 4 lockdown measures indefinitely to contain the continued surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths, but ordered schools to prepare for reopening.Paren...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:53hrs | 13150 | by Staff reporter
WHO exposes Zimbabwe's COVID-19 figures
ZIMBABWE has been adjudged among top 10 African countries with the highest number of COVID19-related deaths even though the country has the least number of cumulative cases.A recent World Heal...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | 3532 | by Staff reporter
Government set to expedite construction at Mpilo
GOVERNMENT is set to expedite the construction of infrastructure in health facilities in order to ensure improved health care services. Speaking yesterday during a tour to assess progress on t...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:38hrs | 81 | 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 | 3983 | 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 | 963 | 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 | 320 | by Staff reporter
Demand for Covid-19 jabs overwhelms Gweru nurses
GWERU City Council has 31 vacant positions for nurses at its clinics, a development that has contributed to delays in the mass vaccination drive in the Midlands Capital. Council clinics serve ...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:39hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
BCC sets up mobile vaccination team
BULAWAYO City Council has set up a mobile team to service areas that have no clinics in an effort to reach out to all eligible for vaccination.BCC health services director Edwin Sibanda told S...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:12hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Teachers reject 'measly' pay hike
TEACHERS have rejected the 45% to 50% salary increment that government has offered them, saying it was inadequate as it will result in the lowest-paid teacher earning $28 600 against a poverty datum l...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1444 | by Staff reporter
First Zina president Clarah Nondo dies
THE first president of the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) Clara Nondo, has died.She was 81.She died at the Avenues Clinic in Harare.Zina president Enoch Dongo confirmed Non...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:55hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Shortage of staff slows Bulawayo mass vaccination
A SHORTAGE of health workers is dampening the mass vaccination drive in Bulawayo as centres are being overwhelmed resulting in some residents being turned away. Under the mass vaccination exer...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:12hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital operations crippled
More than 60 doctors and nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital are in isolation after testing positive to Covid-19, a development that has crippled health care service delivery at the hospital. The...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1898 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe hospitals run out of staff
THE City of Kwekwe has reportedly been hit by a shortage of nursing staff following a surge in COVID-19 cases at the city's clinics and hospitals that has forced most health workers into isolation....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:18hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
'Lockdowns without social grants won't work'
THE extension of level 4 lockdown by President Emmerson Mnangagwa without providing fundamentals such as social safety nets would continue forcing citizens to breach the prescribed safety regulations ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:16hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Staff shortage stalls vaccination programme
AN acute shortage of nursing staff to administer COVID-19 vaccines at local health centres has reportedly slowed down government's mass vaccination programme at a time when there is high demand for th...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vaccination centres overwhelmed
COVID-19 vaccination centres in Bulawayo are overwhelmed as scores of residents continue to flock to local clinics to get inoculated under the ongoing mass vaccination programme which started on Monda...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:25hrs | 128 | 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 | 2298 | 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 | 2103 | by Staff reporter
'Withholding COVID-19 allowances to unvaccinated workers illegal'
CIVIC society groups yesterday blasted threats by government to scrap insurance pay-outs for unvaccinated frontline workers saying these were tactics to enforce mandatory vaccination of civil servants...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 14:59hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
No jab, no COVID-19 allowance, govt tells frontline workers
GOVERNMENT has threatened to withhold CoVID-19 insurance payouts to its frontline workers who are not vaccinated before July 14.Last year, government said it would take care of civil servants ...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:02hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Nurses join teachers burn payslips in protest
DISGRUNTLED nurses working at public hospitals have joined hands with teachers to register their displeasure over poor working conditions in a campaign dubbed "Burn The Fraud".The virtual "Bur...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 07:14hrs | 5362 | by Staff Reporter
Woman caught stealing baby from clinic 'wanted its head for a customer'
A woman sneaked into the maternity ward of a clinic in Epworth, Harare, before kidnapping a new-born baby, police said on Thursday.The woman was intercepted by an alert guard before she could ...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 13:25hrs | 2786 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo rebuilds doctors' residence
THE Government has started refurbishing burnt and dilapidated doctors' residences at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo. Stakeholders that include Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and Zimbabwe Prisons and...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:02hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
MDC factions have bungled in running Harare
The MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction leader, Nelson Chamisa, uses every opportunity he gets to pontificate about smart cities each time he has to talk of Zimbabwe's urban areas.Given the fact that...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 418 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Gringo's widow gives birth
The drama continues . . . After giving birth to her bouncing baby boy on June 5, the late comedian Lazarus "Gringo" Boora's widow Netsai Meki described the child as "heaven sent, a comfo...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1768 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga admits Zimbabwe health sector collapse
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday admitted that Zimbabwe's health sector was on its knees at a time when the country is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that a lot needed to be...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 625 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Fire guts Kwekwe Hospital staff quarters
Kwekwe General Hospital doctors and staff members escaped unharmed after their quarters caught fire in the early hours of today.Nine families, including doctors, physiotherapist, nurses and an...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 19:44hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Harrowing murders by Zimbabweans in Diaspora
ENGLAND does not change people but it brings out what people were hiding all along. In five years I've been here, 30 Zimbabweans have become uxoricides. Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:13hrs | 553 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Govt to expedite repairs at Mpilo hospital
GOVERNMENT will expedite the reconstruction of Mpilo Central Hospital doctors' residence in Bulawayo that was gutted by fire and the upgrade will meet contemporary designs that take into account disas...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:11hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
If we want Zimbabwean youth to register to vote, then include a 'None of the above' option on ballot paper!
I am always intrigued, and oftentimes bemused, witnessing the concerted efforts by many sections of Zimbabwean's society, in their energetic attempts in urging the country's youth to register to vote....Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 20:10hrs | 445 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa, Chamisa rush to assist stranded Mpilo doctors
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has committed $287 million towards the construction of new accommodation for doctors at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo after their living quarters wer...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 18:43hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says doctors, nurses deserve better
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said doctors and nurses in the country deserve the highest quality working conditions and support, hence Government's swift move to rehabilitate doctors' quarters that we...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:09hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree Hospital a death trap
Plumtree General Hospital has reportedly become a death trap as patients lose their lives while waiting to be served.Residents claim that the poor treatment by the Hospital staff has become so...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 19:39hrs | 1123 | by Shelton Muchena in Plumtree
'New forex measures could trigger civil unrest'
WORKERS' representatives yesterday said the new foreign currency measures could trigger civil unrest as workers demand salary hikes to match the rising cost of living.Government last week prom...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:11hrs | 2628 | by Staff reporter
Jumbo attack: 74-year-old turns hero
A 74-YEAR-OLD villager from Mabale in Hwange who was attacked by an elephant which fractured his right leg turned hero of his own story after he dragged himself on his buttocks for eight hours until h...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Govt told to buy more COVID-19 vaccines before ZITF
GOVERNMENT has been urged to buy more COVID-19 vaccines before the country holds its annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in July at its traditional venue in Bulawayo.Recently, the ...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 489 | 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 | 300 | by Staff reporter
Govt pledges to renovate razed Mpilo Central building
Government has pledged to renovate Mpilo Central Hospital doctors' residence quarters that burned down on Wednesday and to help affected workers replace destroyed personal belongings and certificates....Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:11hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
'Lack of maintenance caused Mpilo fire'
THE Government has resolved to renovate the Mpilo Central Hospital doctors' residence that burned down on Wednesday and help affected workers replace destroyed personal belongings and certificates....Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:08hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Teachers, nurses forced to join Zanu-PF
TEACHERS and nurses in Bikita are reportedly being forced to join local Zanu-PF structures and meetings as the ruling party goes on a massive recruitment drive ahead of the 2023 polls.Some of ...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:51hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabweans irked by Nehanda statue
The Zimbabwean government unveiled a statue of the liberation heroine and anti-colonialism figurehead Mbuya Nehanda in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday amid controversy about its priorities while the e...Published: 26 May 2021 at 10:12hrs | 2176 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo cancer machines break down - and nearest engineers in South Africa
Radiation therapy machines have broken down at Bulawayo's Mpilo Central Hospital, imperilling the lives of over 100 cancer patients on a waiting list for treatment.Mpilo is one of only two med...Published: 26 May 2021 at 10:00hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Africa Day has lost its significance, says workers
WORKERS' unions yesterday said Africa Day, celebrated annually on May 25 since 1963, had lost its significance following the erosion of their rights, adding that the day now symbolised oppression of t...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:23hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has Covid-19 genomic sequencing capacity
Zimbabwe now has the capacity to do Covid-19 genomic sequencing, Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga said during his virtual address to the ongoing 74th World ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:20hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Govt yet to pay nurses COVID-19 allowances 4 months on
GOVERNMENT has reportedly failed to pay nurses the US$10 daily allowances it promised them at the launch of the country's COVID-19 vaccination programme four months ago.Reports revealed that g...Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:51hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Concern over Thorngrove, Ekusileni opening
OVER a year after Government declared the start of rehabilitation works to turn Bulawayo's Ekusileni and Thorngrove hospitals into Covid-19 isolation centres, the two institutions have failed to offic...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:28hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF claims to have delivered on 2018 election promises
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday claimed that it had delivered on all its 2018 electoral promises, among them a smooth public transport system and economic stability.Addressing a Press confe...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:12hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
Load More Stories
