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Sexual allegations rock Zimbabwe's National Aids Council
Government has launched an investigation into the operations of the National Aids Council (NAC) over allegations of sexual harassment, corporate sleaze and maladministration.The probe coincide...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:43hrs | 831 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa's wife broke the ice, not the strike - doctors
Zimbabwe government hospital doctors have been on strike for the past 36 days, plunging the public health sector into deep crisis, which has led to the near-collapse of the health delivery system. But...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:56hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's defining moment
GOVERNMENT will today meet its restive employees in a crunch meeting for salary negotiations in a desperate bid to stop a full-blown strike that could cripple State operations.This comes as wo...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | 3520 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Doctors officially end strike
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association have announced that the industrial action that had been running for the past 40 days has come to an end.In a statement released on Thursday ZHDA said,...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 06:15hrs | 2510 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Health scare as ambulances spend 48 hours without fuel
A health hazard is looming after ambulances in Bulawayo and Harare are reportedly out of fuel for the last 48 hours.In Harare photos of queuing ambulances at a garage without fuel yet have eme...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | 517 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Full list of doctors who have resumed duties
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting has released the number of doctors who reported for duty in various hospitals on Monday. "Doctors continue to report for duty in all hosp...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:02hrs | 7039 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors dump work and resume strike
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association has announced that its members who had resumed duty on Monday will be withdrawing their services on Tuesday to join the rest of their counterparts who did not...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 16:17hrs | 5684 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors report for work in 5 cities
The Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced that in the past two days all doctors have resumed their duties in the following areas:Marondera - All Doct...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 10:08hrs | 4720 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors' strike: Lives on ropes as lies, arrogance blot hope
Timothy Kafiramberi (not his real name) is visibly desperate and scared as he carries his ailing son who cannot walk due to an unexplained sickness. He has been moving from one room to another along t...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:16hrs | 854 | by Vanessa Gonye
Breakthrough for doctors finally
The cat and mouse chase between the government and the doctors seems to have come to and end after there was an agreement on Friday on the employers and employees can engage moving forward. There are ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:55hrs | 8454 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Linda Masarira confronts Mnangagwa
MDC-T National Spokesperson Linda Masarira has called for President Mnangagwa to come out clean on the credentials of Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo. "With all due respect Mr. President Emmer...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 11:32hrs | 9181 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prophet Magaya intensifies research on his HIV & Aids herbal remedy
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Walter Magaya says he has intensified research on his controversial HIV and Aids herbal remedy, Aguma, as he awaits government to test the drug's su...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:29hrs | 2347 | by Staff reporter
Doctors speak out on latest developments
The Zimbabwe hospital doctors are deeply saddened by the continued misrepresentation of facts by some elements in regard to the on-going industrial action by doctors at all levels nationwide. This has...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 13:14hrs | 4954 | by ZHDA
Mnangangwa panics
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his vacation to deal with the crisis in the health sector where junior doctors have been on a month-long industrial action, which is costing l...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 12:46hrs | 11550 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's bid to replace striking doctors hits brick wall
Government attempts to hire recently qualified doctors to replace striking medical professionals in Zimbabwe hit a wall as graduates snubbed the state's offer.The country has two medical schoo...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:45hrs | 5268 | by Business Day
Chiwenga now seeks talks with defiant doctors
THE government is now seeking further talks with striking junior doctors after initially acting tough and suspending the defiant clinicians.Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo confirme...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:40hrs | 6763 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga 'misled' on doctors' issue
Doctors yesterday came out guns blazing, telling Acting President Constantino Chiwenga that government did not spend a single cent in educating them.They said their parents, guardians and fami...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:43hrs | 8892 | by Staff reporter
Doctors rubbish Chiwenga
STRIKING doctors have reacted angrily to claims by government that the State assisted them through medical school and that there are enough medicine stocks in the country.In a hard-hitting sta...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 22:08hrs | 1951 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga escalates govt, doctors' fight
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday warned that government will soon introduce a new law regulating the hiring of doctors after he came face-to-face with the dire situation at one of the h...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 21:55hrs | 1458 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike: A balancing act of ethics and rights
ON March 1 this year, junior doctors downed their tools in protest over deteriorating working conditions, on-call allowances, a facility to import vehicles duty-free and poor remuneration. Senior doct...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:40hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to change doctors intern conditions
The Chronicle Paidamoyo Chipunza, Harare Bureau Government is considering changing internship conditions for junior doctors to avert future work disruptions that expose patients to risk, Acting Presid...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:32hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga happy with supply of medicines across Zimbabwe
Government has started receiving medicines and medical sundries from suppliers and is distributing them across the country. They comprise medicines for daily use and sundries like gloves and face mask...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 09:53hrs | 1078 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga blasts striking doctors
ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday tore into the striking doctors, dismissing them as mere "interns" who had no respect for ethics and berated them for engaging in the job action....Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:23hrs | 1885 | by Staff Reporter
Senior doctors join striking juniors
HARARE - In the latest standoff between the government and striking junior doctors, senior medical personnel have now joined the industrial action by their juniors - leading to the suspension of major...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 20:05hrs | 6125 | by Staff Re
Doctors take fight to Supreme Court
Following Saturday's ruling by the Labour Court declaring the strike by junior doctors illegal, the medical practitioners are escalating their case to the Supreme Court.Munyaradzi Gwisai, who ...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:50hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga speaks on striking doctors
Government under the stewardship of the feared (Rtd) General Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga has issued a statement following the suspension of more than 550 doctors and registrars accused of ...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:06hrs | 10299 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: 550 doctors suspended
The Health Services Board has suspended over 550 junior medical doctors and radiographers for defying Sunday's labour court order for them to go back to work within 12 hours.Last week Ca...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 14:57hrs | 3748 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Frustrated top doctor breaks down
A Senior House Officer -Anaesthetics Suleiman Makore on Friday took to social media to vent his frustration on the economic situation in the country vis-a-vis the salary that medical officers ar...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 08:32hrs | 5986 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga to fire doctors?
GOVERNMENT has tasked Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga with resolving the ongoing impasse between the State and the striking junior doctors at public hospitals amid reports senior medical practitio...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:56hrs | 2019 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike legal, says court
The Labour Court ruled on Friday that the ongoing strike by doctors was legal.The Court threw out an application in which the Health Services board (HSB) sought to have the strike deemed illeg...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 20:50hrs | 2172 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe under-reported cholera deaths'
The recent cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe could have killed over 100 people amid fears an official government count did not capture a majority of the deaths in a bid to conceal negligence.Offici...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:05hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Health hazard looms as hospital Registrars down tools.
A health hazard is looming in the country after Registrars at Harare and Parirenyatwa hospitals announced on Friday that they are joining the junior and middle level doctors who are on an ongoing indu...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:34hrs | 699 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government to solve shortage of medicine
President Emmerson Mnamngagwa has announced that his government has made plans to quell the shortage of medicine and the skyrocketing of prices where it is available.Addressing the ZANU PF Nat...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 16:20hrs | 1509 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt partially fulfils doctors' demands
GOVERNMENT met striking doctors yesterday and urged them to resume work as some of their grievances had been addressed. Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo met the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:44hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet orders doctors to go back to work
The Zimbabwe cabinet has ordered striking junior doctors to go back to work as they did not follow the proper procedure in engaging in industrial action. In a statement read by the Minister of...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 10:00hrs | 2902 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt dismisses US$ wage demands by striking doctors
Civil servants will have to contend with their RTGS salaries for a while after a cabinet vote against junior doctors' plea to be paid in United States dollars (USD).This comes as a blow to the...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 21:07hrs | 3100 | by ZimLive
Doctors, govt in crunch meeting
Ministry of Health and Child Care will hold crunch talks with striking doctors tomorrow as it bids to end their industrial action which has crippled services across the country's public hospitals....Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Striking doctors accuse government of 'media propaganda'
Striking doctors have accused Health Minister Obadiah Moyo and government negotiators of pursuing "media propaganda" in a bid to break their strike which began on December 1.The doctors, in a ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 12:26hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors' strike continues
DOCTORS at public hospitals yesterday said they will continue with their industrial action and implored government to be more serious with health care and move with speed to avert collapse of the heal...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:06hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors' strike bites
Seventy-four-year-old Elliot Moyo is a bitter man. He was hit by a car and suffered a broken leg, among other serious injuries, early last week.Since then, he has been making several fruitless...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:18hrs | 2761 | by Staff reporter
New, cheaper ARV comes to Zimbabwe
Government will introduce a new line of cheaper and more effective antiretroviral drugs for HIV and Aids patients early next year.Authorities will introduce the Dolutegravir (DTG) line, which ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:45hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants storm out of talks
NEGOTIATIONS between civil servants and government ended prematurely yesterday with representatives of the workers storming out of talks in protest after being told that there would be no new offer on...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:38hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba identifies prostitute in Parliament
ZANU-PF's Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba caused furore in the National Assembly yesterday after calling MDC Alliance leader of the House Thabitha Khumalo a prostitute, leading to her walking out wi...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:49hrs | 3880 | by Staff reporter
Govt, doctors talks deadlocked
THE strike by doctors at public hospitals, which started last weekend, is set to continue after a meeting between Health minister Obadiah Moyo and the doctors' representatives yesterday ended without ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's hospitals crisis deepens
The crisis at the country's public hospitals is worsening, after nurses said yesterday that they would start reporting for duty for three days a week due to Zimbabwe's biting fuel shortages, as well a...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:19hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter
More Zimbabwe doctors join strike
More doctors yesterday joined the on-going strike, defying a government message to call off the job action.The doctors have been on strike since Saturday to protest poor remuneration and the d...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:41hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo hospital opening doubtful
The late vice president Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's family claims that it had found a potential investor for the Ekusileni hospital project but the taskforce managing the project turned down the offer....Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 13:24hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike spreads
JUNIOR doctors at public hospitals yesterday stepped up their strike for better working conditions and remuneration, forcing some major hospitals to close down key departments and discharge "stable" p...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | 2779 | by Staff reporter
Call for doctors to end strike
Government yesterday urged striking junior doctors to go back to work while it was looking into their grievances. Junior doctors at public health facilities downed tools on Saturday citing several cha...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 06:24hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
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