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Bribe-taking nurses and tutors to be fired

Deputy Health and Child Care Minister Sleiman Kwidini has issued a stern warning to nurses and nursing tutors engaged in corrupt practices, emphasizing that those implicated risk immediate dismissal without a disciplinary hearing. Speaking…

Published: 28 Sep 2025 at 23:34hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe to train 7 000 health workers every year

The Government has announced plans to train 7 000 health workers every year in a bid to address the country's critical shortage of medical professionals and double the national health workforce by 2030.Health and Child Care Minister, Dr Do…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reporter

Nurses in desperate bid to flee Zimbabwe

Thousands of Zimbabwean nurses are stranded and financially drained after spending up to US$2 000 each in failed attempts to migrate for better-paying jobs abroad, as government authorities allegedly delay issuing critical verification let…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter

Harare Institute fires back at Nurses Council

The Harare Institute of Public Health (HIPH) has reaffirmed the legitimacy of its nursing assistant training programme, clarifying that it is fully approved by relevant government bodies, following a public notice from the Nurses Council o…

Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt racks US$3m from nurses, blocks their diaspora dreams

The government is facing sharp criticism for withholding crucial verification letters from thousands of Zimbabwean nurses seeking to work abroad, despite collecting more than US$3.6 million from health professionals for processing the docu…

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:31hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe nurses threaten strike

Zimbabwe's fragile public healthcare system is facing yet another major crisis as nurses across the country have signalled their intention to embark on a nationwide strike over poor remuneration, dire working conditions, and severe staff s…

Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 07:51hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter

Student nurses use fake O-Level certificates to enrol at Chitungwiza Hospital

Two student nurses enrolled at Chitungwiza Central Hospital have been exposed for using fake Ordinary Level certificates to gain admission into a nursing course. Paidamoyo Samantha Muchira and Makanaka Chatikobo attended the nursing progra…

Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe nurses sound alarm over dire conditions

The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) has issued a desperate plea to the government to urgently address the worsening crisis in public hospitals, warning that nurses are working under "impossible conditions" that put patients' lives at ri…

Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 08:46hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe pledges swift action on nurses' grievances

In a proactive move to address escalating concerns within Zimbabwe's public healthcare system, the Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Douglas Mombeshora, on Friday visited Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals to engage directly with frontlin…

Published: 17 May 2025 at 14:17hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt blocks 4,000 nurses from leaving

The Zimbabwean government has reportedly withheld verification letters for more than 4,000 nurses, effectively blocking their chances of securing employment abroad in a controversial attempt to stem the mass exodus of healthcare profession…

Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:44hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe need an urgent reset of parenthood and economic models

We are failing at the family level. When I was growing up, my mom always told me that if I ate vegetables, got good grades, stayed out of trouble, eat what we grew and be obedient to her, even a lowly boy from Honde Valley could grow up to…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 17:09hrs | 240 | by Brian Sedze

Nurse aides fume over govt discrimination

The Zimbabwean government is facing criticism from nurse aides after the Health Services Commission (HSC) excluded them from the locum facility, a temporary medical arrangement granted to other health professionals. The decision has sparke…

Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:18hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe hospital rocked by kickback scandal involving nurses and doctors

New details have emerged in a kickback scandal at Masvingo Provincial Hospital (MPH), where sources allege that nurses are receiving US$5 for every patient they refer to private clinics for services that are, in many cases, available at th…

Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 14:47hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe faces critical shortage of student nurses' accommodation

Zimbabwe's health sector is grappling with a critical shortage of training infrastructure, particularly in accommodation for student nurses and other healthcare trainees, Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care, Sleiman Kwidini, revealed …

Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 07:00hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe needs 64,000 nurses to fill skills gap

Zimbabwe is facing a severe shortage of healthcare workers, with a deficit of 64,000 professionals, according to Health and Child Care Minister, Dr. Douglas Mombeshora. The minister revealed this alarming figure during a meeting with World…

Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:56hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter

Nurses graduate in Hwange

The Hwange Medical Company's School of Nursing proudly celebrated the graduation of 31 trainees who received diplomas in general nursing on Friday, achieving an impressive overall performance rate of 94 percent. Out of 33 candidates who sa…

Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:11hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe reveals plans to increase number of nursing graduates

The Zimbabwean government has announced an ambitious plan to more than double the number of nursing graduates by 2030 in response to the ongoing brain drain impacting health services.Since 2019, over 5,000 health professionals, including d…

Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 08:07hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter

Politics of sympathetic pregnancies

Politics of mimesis Opposition in Zimbabwe - not the Zimbabwean opposition - is in a deep mess. It is vainly looking for causes, models and examples. Our politics, it would appear, has entered a phase which the Greeks would call mimesis.Th…

Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:27hrs | 101 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Zimbabwe enhances nurses' certificates security features

The Nurses Council of Zimbabwe is set to introduce a new, highly secure certificate to combat the rising issue of fake practicing licenses. The proliferation of counterfeit certificates has become a serious problem due to the high demand f…

Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:25hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses milking patients through syndicates

The Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe is taking stern action against laboratory professionals who are collaborating with health workers in public institutions to coerce patients into seeking servi…

Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:25hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter

Ministry of health scraps O' Level Maths as requirement for nurse training

The ministry of health has quietly scrapped the requirement to have passed O' Level Mathematics for one to qualify for nurse training.The requirements were tweaked more a decade ago, compelling Zimbabweans seeking to train as nurses and ma…

Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 06:25hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

What Zimbabwe's health care workers are doing to get UK jobs

When Kundai graduated with a master's degree from a local university, she did not imagine staying unemployed for five years. Even more unexpected was the fact that her path to forging a career as a health worker and getting financial freed…

Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 2065 | by Evidence Chenjerai

United Kingdom considers closing temporary visa schemes for care workers

AMIDST a surge in migration to the United Kingdom, the government is contemplating the closure of temporary visa schemes for care workers. This move follows an appeal from the New Conservatives party, supported by former Home Secretary Sue…

Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 04:51hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe accused of blocking nurses from taking jobs abroad

Struggling to survive on her meagre salary, Zimbabwean nurse Jane decided to start a new life abroad but, one year after landing a job in Britain, she is still waiting to pack her bags.Jane is not alone. Zimbabwean nurses eager to escape d…

Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:59hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses to undergo training in Zanu-PF ideology

Zimbabwe public hospital doctors and nurses are set to enrol at the Hebert Chitepo School of Ideology which was ostensibly opened to teach citizens as well as re-align them to the ideals of the country's liberation struggle.The college has…

Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 22:08hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

'Health workers trained using tax payers' money owe us,' says Chiwenga

VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has said health workers trained locally using Zimbabwe's resources must â€˜pay back' through working in public hospitals.Chiwenga added that in the future will vet prospective nurses and doctors, and onl…

Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt withholds nurses' key documents

THOUSANDS of healthcare workers who paid US$300 for verification letters needed to secure jobs outside the country have still not received the documentation as government tries to stem a damaging brain drain.Critics say this is a deliberat…

Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:14hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga punishing Zimbabwe's health workers?

VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has been accused by some disgruntled nurses of blocking salary and allowance increments in the health sector as punishment for past strikes and demonstrations.Their sentiments follow government's move to…

Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 19:43hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe health sector makes fresh international headlines

AN undercover Public Service International (PSI) investigation has exposed the state of collapse of the country's health sector including gross labour rights violations and corruption.PSI carried out the investigation from the Covid-19 per…

Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:03hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe losing doctors, nurses and teachers to British hypocrisy

THE United Kingdom, which is buckling under a deepening shortage of nurses and teachers after exiting the European Union, is raiding, among other countries, its former colony Zimbabwe for key public sector workers: nurses, doctors and teac…

Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:28hrs | 164 | by Ashlet Simango

Nurses barred from leaving Zimbabwe

With a salary worth the equivalent of less than $100 a month, Agnes Masarira can't afford to buy lunch at the hospital in Zimbabwe where she works as a nurse. She dreams of a nursing job in Canada, but she cannot emigrate without key docum…

Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

'Bribe-seeking nurses under probe'

GOVERNMENT says it has launched a probe on health workers who are reportedly demanding bribes to activate the quick response (QR) codes on COVID-19 vaccination cards following an article published by NewsDay on Friday which exposed the sca…

Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

All Zimbabwe qualified health professionals recruited

ALL qualified health professionals seeking employment in the public sector have been hired, giving that group a zero unemployment rate as the Health Services Board (HSB) acts to upgrade the public health services.Since the advent of the Se…

Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Nurses recruited from Zimbabwe are being caught in UK 'bonded labour' schemes

Zimbabwean care workers are being tricked into coming to the UK by unscrupulous middlemen who withhold up to half their wages and force them to live in squalor.The scam, which plays on the acute shortages of nursing and care staff across B…

Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | 15 | by Ray Mwareya

Zimbabwe govt chokes hungry nurses

AT least 200 nurses face the axe after government yesterday fired Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union president, Robert Chiduku for conducting union business at his workplace demanding better wages for nurses.The 200 nurses will soon appear…

Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF hijacks trainee nurses recruitment

THE Zanu-PF Youth League (YL) has ordered all government hospitals offering general nurse training courses across the country to only enrol candidates it has vetted and approved.All party provincial youth chairpersons have consequently bee…

Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe police beat up striking nurses

RIOT police on Wednesday reportedly stormed Bindura General Hospital and indiscriminately beat up nurses for joining a nationwide strike by health workers protesting over salaries and poor working conditions.This came as public hospitals y…

Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses endorse strike

SALARY talks between government and its restive workers ended in a deadlock yesterday ahead of a full-blown strike action by health professionals and teachers beginning Monday.It has emerged that civil servants rejected a 100% salary incre…

Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself

US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to raise.One matter which I dropped related to the U…

Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe to become regional vaccines manufacturing hub

ZIMBABWE could soon become a hub for manufacturing vaccines and injectable drugs for national and continental consumption as discussions open for a joint venture deal between NatPharm and a major Indonesian company.Vice President Constanti…

Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe healthcare bleeds amid mass nurse exodus

Virginia Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a township clinic in Harare."It's tiring - the nurse-patient ratio is really bad," she says, throwing herself onto a brown sofa at her house…

Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Soldiers have guns, teachers and nurses have empty threats, so government will always favor the military!

It is common knowledge that rights and freedoms are seldom given or awarded - but, always need to be demanded and taken.That is why it is virtually unheard of to come across a country that was "given its independence" - but actually, the v…

Published: 19 May 2022 at 15:59hrs | 24 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zanu-PF youths beat CCC driver

Zanu-PF youths savagely assaulted Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe by-election candidate Judith Tobaiwa's driver as the political temperature heats up ahead of the March 26 by-elections.Narrating the ordeal, Tobaiwa said her driv…

Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:44hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

No US$ bonus for nurses

HEALTH professionals have expressed disgruntlement after some of them allegedly received their bonuses in local currency while other civil servants were struggling to access their 13th cheques at local banks yesterday.There were long queue…

Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:34hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

Anger over delay in disbursement of Covid-19 funds

Nurses who took part in the Covid-19 vaccination program in Gokwe are unhappy with the deliberate delay in the distribution of funds meant for vaccinators.Eleven million RTGS was deposited into the hospital account sometime in September an…

Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 12:48hrs | 23 | by Paul Ndou

Gokwe North district hospital faces mass exodus of nurses

Gokwe North District Hospital (GNDH) is facing a mass exodus of nurses, Bulawayo24.com has learnt Nurses at the hospital claim they are not satisfied with the way the hospital is being managed. Speaking to the publication the nurses said t…

Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 18:16hrs | 204 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Gokwe

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 about 50 people a day and in some cases, those …

Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:39hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Chitungwiza nurses attempt to sell COVID-19 cards

TWO nurses at Chitungwiza General Hospital yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Mhiti facing fraud charges after they allegedly stole COVID-19 vaccination cards and attempted to sell them.Sekai Gabrile (46) and Shorai Sicho…

Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:23hrs | 11 | 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 by their employer, the Health Service …

Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 25 | 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 after it ruled that for the meantime health work…

Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

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