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Zimbabwe isolates 3 000 over coronavirus
GOVERNMENT has self-quarantined about 3 375 people who have passed through Zimbabwe's ports of entry since the coronavirus was declared an international emergency and will avail US$5,2 million to prep...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1098 | by Staff reporter
ZEC doesn't have power to deal with vote-buying
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it does not have the powers to investigate the issue of vote buying because it is a criminal case which should be handled by the police.Zec's r...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:20hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus: Zimbabwe woman tests negative
The Zimbabwean woman, who was quarantined at Wilkins Hospital's specialised unit in Harare yesterday for a suspected case of Coronavirus (COVID-19), had tests coming out negative last night, which mea...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:24hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Hospital to be upgraded
GOVERNMENT has given green light to the upgrading of Beitbridge hospital, in light of the huge volumes of traffic that pass through the border town.Between 13 000 to 30 000 people pass through...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 12:54hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Govt to upgrade Beitbridge hospital
THE government is considering upgrading the status of Beitbridge District Hospital to a superior institution, Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo said on Friday.Such an upgrade is envi...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:46hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe remains on high alert for coronavirus
Zimbabwe remains on high alert, especially at ports of entry, for the deadly new coronavirus, amid reports that over 1 400 travellers have passed through the country's ports of entry that are screenin...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 102 | by Staff reportert
'MDC does not control cities'
Zimbabwe now able to test for coronovirusZimbabwe is now able to test for and diagnose the coronavirus after obtaining the necessary test kits, local media reported.Health minister Obadiah...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 21:16hrs | 795 | by ANA
Zim declares 21 days quarantine for China travellers
Zimbabwe says it is monitoring nationals whop return home from China and other corona virus affected countries to make sure that they remain in isolation for a maximum of three weeks. Health m...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 18:44hrs | 3123 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa ally wants Chinese nationals barred from entering Zimbabwe
MDC Parliamentary Chief Whip, Prosper Mutseyami has questioned why the government is still allowing visitors from China to enter Zimbabwe in light of the calamitous coronavirus outbreak, which has kil...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:42hrs | 2259 | by newzimbabwe
Biometric registration for bunking Zimbabwe doctors
HEALTH and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo has called for the immediate implementation of a biometric registration process in all public hospitals amid claims that doctors are not reporting for duty ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 15:06hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Govt to appoint provincial medical directors for Bulawayo, Harare
GOVERNMENT will soon appoint provincial medical directors (PMDs) for Bulawayo and Harare metropolitan provinces to improve coordination on health-related matters, a Cabinet Minister has said. ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:44hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Only Mnangagwa can fire me, not doctors, says Obadiah
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo on Monday bragged in Parliament that he would only be censured by President Emmerson Mnangagwa who appointed him to government and not the senior doctors, who have called ...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 11:23hrs | 2825 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwean students in China safe'
NO Zimbabwean student or national in China has been infected with Coronavirus which has killed over 600 Chinese nationals in China, Deputy Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Zhao Baogang, has said....Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 15:28hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges government to be in touch with communities
INFORMATION, Publicity & Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsavangwa said Cabinet on Tuesday held is first Cabinet meeting for the year 2020 in the Cabinet room at Munhumutapa office...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:48hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe hospital operating at 45% capacity
SALLY Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) was almost deserted yesterday as MPs in the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Health toured the institution.The committee, whic...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Over 500 monitored for Coronavirus in Zimbabwe
AT least 506 novel Coronavirus cases are under surveillance in Zimbabwe while a special unit is being set up at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals to serve as a national command centre for mitigation mea...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Moyo grilled over Zimbabwe coronavirus preparedness
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo was yesterday grilled by Parliament over Zimbabwe's preparedness to deal with the coronavirus should it be detected in the country.Moyo had appeared before the Rut...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 21:12hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Masarira blasts ministry of health over coronavirus
LEAD president Linda Masarira has condemned the Ministry of Health and Child Care for failing to take proper preventive measures at Robert Mugabe airport....Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 22:23hrs | 1988 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Senior doctors back at work
The return to work by senior doctors at Zimbabwe's referral hospitals has seen normal service returning to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) and Parirenyatwa Group of Ho...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:08hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
More voluntary nurses at hospitals
The Zimbabwe Young Nurses Association (ZYNA) has so far mobilised 300 State-registered nurses and 150 nurse aides countrywide to end staff shortages in public hospitals and clinics. Their recr...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:32hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on high alert for coronavirus
Health authorities have swiftly moved to limit possible ways the deadly coronavirus originating from China can get into the country by increasing screening and monitoring of possible threats at all po...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 07:03hrs | 2410 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe health system digitally stunted'
ZIMBABWE'S health system is suffering from a digital deficiency as the country is yet to advance its e-health strategy, Healthcare minister Obadiah Moyo has said.He was speaking at a media bri...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:23hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Junior doctors announce end to strike
Striking junior doctors will end a four-month strike after accepting an offer from a telecoms billionaire to pay them a monthly allowance of about $300 for six months, their union said on Thursday....Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:10hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe public hospitals to go digital
Zimbabwe's public health institutions will have all patients' records available in digital form at any health facility after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered Estonia in a project whose pilot p...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:14hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Doctors leave Zimbabwe in droves amid govt hostility
FRUSTRATED Zimbabwean medical doctors are leaving the country in droves as government fails to break an impasse with the health professionals following a four-month strike action late last year over p...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1458 | by NewZimbabwe.com
'Mnangagwa has failed on human rights'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week released a damning report, describing Zimbabwe's human rights record as appalling despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reform pledges...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 302 | by Staff rpeorter
Health minister applauds volunteer nurses
Government has applauded the Zimbabwe Young Nurses' Association for volunteering to work at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals during the festive season. Speaking during a tour of the hospital ye...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 14:46hrs | 1525 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe to set up regional urology centre
Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals is in the process of establishing a regional urology centre of excellence after receiving equipment worth over US$200 000 from China. The latest batch of the eq...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 04:52hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
'Nursing is a calling'
Over 200 midwives and PCN Up-skilling nurses yesterday graduated at The Salvation Army-owned Howard Hospital in Chiweshe.Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo, who officiated at the g...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 17:45hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
'Splinter group a plot to silence doctors'
A SPLINTER association of hospital doctors will be launched tomorrow amid allegations from existing groups that this is part of political "machinations" aimed at silencing genuine concerns being raise...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:01hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Cuban doctors descend in Zimbabwe
Government has deployed four Cuban doctors expected to start work early next year at the Chitungwiza health department, an official has said.As part of the offer, Chitungwiza Municipality will...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 12:54hrs | 6402 | by Staff Reporter
Aids battle far from over
LAST Sunday, Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Aids Day, which is always marked with much pomp and fanfare as well as passionate declarations and pledges for enhanced access...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 07:23hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Minister Obadiah Moyo sees red over audit report
Health minister Obadiah Moyo is taking the heat from an audit report which exposed massive corruption at Chitungwiza Central Hospital during his term at the helm of the institution.But Moyo ye...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:19hrs | 1927 | by Staff reporter
Doctors to get ZWL$10 000 salary
Doctors are likely to have a happy Christmas after Strive Masiyiwa's Higher Life Foundation revealed that they are planning to pay the ZWL$10 000 in December. Speaking to the media recently HL...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:21hrs | 8586 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors defy Mnangagwa
STRIKING public hospital doctors have defied President Emmerson Mnangagwa's latest 48-hour moratorium which came after government reversed its earlier decision to fire them.Information ministe...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:32hrs | 6706 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 48-hour moratorium: Doctors trickle back to work
AT least 10 percent of junior doctors have reported for duty countrywide with Government ready to consider extenuating circumstances for doctors reporting to work after the moratorium extended by Pres...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:02hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
Doctors to stage a protest in Harare today
Doctors will stage a peaceful protest on Wednesday in Harare where they intend to hand over a petition to the Speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda in a bid to lobby the legislature to address their pli...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 04:53hrs | 3777 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Only 46 out of 448 doctors return back to work
Only 46 doctors have returned to work after the President Emmerson Mnagwagwa issued a 48-hour moratorium to them last Thursday.Government had fired 448 doctors. The Minister of Informa...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 15:25hrs | 2127 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Activists ambush Mnangagwa's Health minister
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo was yesterday ambushed by Masvingo demonstrators protesting the lack of drugs and the continued doctors' strike at major hospitals.The incident occurred as the min...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Ministers Obadiah Moyo abandon hospital tours after media ‘snub'
HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo and his cabinet colleague in Social Amenities Minister Daniel Garwe were Monday forced to abandon a tour of Harare hospitals after mistakenly thinking journalists were not...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:22hrs | 747 | by newzimbabwe
Fired doctors want moratorium extended
FIRED doctors, who ignored the initial 48-hour moratorium extended to them last Thursday to return to work without reapplying, have now asked for an extension in a letter to the President. Alt...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:05hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Doctors strike: 'It is time to show leadership, people are dying'
The government is still struggling to find a solution to one of the major health crises in Zimbabwe's history, three months after junior doctors went on strike demanding better pay.Sapes Trust...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:10hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Why Obadiah Moyo must go
The appointment of Obadiah Moyo as Health and Child Care minister in September 2018 was received with mixed feelings.On one hand, there were some who wanted to see a change of leadership at th...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:08hrs | 417 | by Fortune Nyamande
Govt bows to pressure, introduces 'decentralised' nurses recruitment application process
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has employed a new system in the online application process for trainee nurses who will now be required to submit national identity cards, a move that is meant to...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:06hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Government to deploy doctors to major hospitals
THE Government is working on modalities to restore minimum service delivery at the country's central hospitals in Bulawayo and Harare through the deployment of clinical officers who are stationed in t...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:37hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fires its only pelvis ortho surgeon
The government of Zimbabwe has invited its only only Pelvis Ortho surgeon Dr Mageza Chiwamba to attend a hearing over his failure to report to work from the 16th of September to date. In...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:54hrs | 7655 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa plans to fire 516 of the 1,601 junior and middle level doctors
Health Minister Obadiah Moyo told a post-cabinet media briefing on Tuesday that the government would continue its disciplinary action against those who were boycotting work, including the senior docto...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:49hrs | 1575 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa dangles $310 to doctors in bid to break 3-month strike
Telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa will seek to break a three-month strike by Zimbabwean doctors by offering them an extra ZWL$5,000 (US$310) monthly, his foundation announced.The doctors will al...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:45hrs | 5333 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa grovels at rally turnout
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnagagwa was on Saturday left a relieved man after thousands of people from Mashonaland East province thronged Mahusekwa Growth Point where he addressed a rally that coincided with ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:34hrs | 2488 | by Staff reporter
Govt, doctors impasse remains unresolved
DIALOGUE between the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) and the Health ministry has not yielded positive results, with the employer still to make an offer to the striking medical, practitio...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:48hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
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