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Zimbabwe's sick turn to herbalists over ailing health system
When Agnes Kativhu could not get treatment for breast cancer from Harare's main public hospital, she checked in to one of the many self-styled herbal clinics opening up across Zimbabwe's capital....Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 08:15hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Sugar tax money to set up new cancer treatment centres
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) has approved expedited procedures to procure new cancer treatment machines, with the potential completion of the process before the end of 2024....Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:32hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Pioneering progress amid resource constraints in African radiology and oncology
Experts are concerned about resource limits and insufficient radiology skills and services in Africa, particularly for cancer detection and treatment. As the continent grapples with the rising burden ...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:41hrs | 145 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe takes healthcare to the next level with Quinary Hospital
The Second Republic is persisting in its efforts to upgrade the healthcare delivery system in Zimbabwe.A notable accomplishment in this regard is the impending completion of the University...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 12:26hrs | 94 | by Tonderai Ndoro
UZ completes section of super-specialist hospital
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has completed a section of its new super-specialist hospital in Avondale, Harare, which is set to open by August. This part of the hospital will provide specialized ser...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:04hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
'Influx of herbalists hindering cancer treatment'
Nothando Mutizira, head of oncology at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, has raised concerns about the increasing reliance on herbalists, which she believes is hindering successful cancer treatment out...Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Belarus strongman dispatches 'smallhouse' to Mnangagwa's wife
PROFESSOR Irina Abelskaya, the Belarusian envoy recently dispatched to Harare to deliver a donation to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, is a mistress of the Eastern European country's leader Alexander L...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:21hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
US-based firm appoints Zimbabwean Dr as Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Victor Moyo has been appointed as the Chief Medical Officer at Onconova Therapeutics, Inc, a US-based clinical-stage Biopharmaceutical Company. Dr. Moyo brings with him extensive experience as a p...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigeria's Bola Tinubu warned against attacking Niger
Usman Yusuf, a vocal Nigerian professor of Haematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, has warned President Bola Tinubu not to get entangled in a messy proxy geopolitical war between Nato an...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 08:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Tabitha Khumalo decries cancer treatment costs
FORMER Bulawayo East legislator Thabitha Khumalo has bemoaned the huge cost of cancer treatment in Zimbabwe, saying vulnerable people struggled to meet the costs.Khumalo, who suffers from brea...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tafadzwa Mandiwanza: Ireland's first female paediatric neurosurgeon
Tafadzwa Mandiwanza says that growing up in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, she always wanted to be a doctor.Having just been appointed as the first female paediatric neurosurgeon in Ire...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$70 million war chest for Covid-19 vaccines
Government is set to utilise the US$70 million left in its coffers from the US$100 million set aside by Treasury for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines as the fight against the pandemic intensifies in ...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean surgeons to help in other countries
Zimbabwean surgeons have been authorised to help separate conjoined twins from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon following international endorsements of the country's processes. The appeal from t...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government urged to avail cancer budget
Health experts have urged Government to avail a cancer prevention and treatment budget to lessen the burden on cancer patients as treatment is beyond the reach of many. Veteran oncologist Anna...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mandatory cancer screening planned
It will be mandatory for Zimbabweans in certain age groups to be screened for cancers as a prevention and control strategy for the world's second leading cause of deaths under plans now being consider...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mrs Mnangagwa clinches cancer treatment deal
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has clinched a fellowship programme for local doctors with Merck Foundation that will aim to boost the limited number of oncologists in Zimbabwe and train the existing one...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife attends Dubai summit
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa is in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, attending a summit of First Ladies on access to improved innovative health care and people's well-being. The summit was organis...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctor weeps in front of Zimbabwe Health minister
Senior doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals yesterday narrated to the minister of Health Obadiah Moyo, of the horrors and deaths occurring everyday at major hospitals because of acute shortages ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo gets a shot in the arm
KIDZCAN Zimbabwe, in conjunction with the United Refineries Company, has officially handed over a cancer ward at Mpilo Hospital in a bid to lessen the burden of children suffering from cancer....Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mixed views on Schweppes sweeteners
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe Limited has added three artificial sweeteners to the Mazoe concentrated drinks which are feared to cause cancer and brain cell damage among other diseases, if consumed in large quan...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's family maintain sanctions on Elizabeth
The wife of ailing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is still not allowed in the Donald Gordon Medical Centre premises as she is still under sanctions from seeing her husband where the 65-year-old oppositi...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 14:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Elizabeth barred from seeing Tsvangirai
MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa and the wife of ailing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai have been barred from visiting him in a Johannesburg hospital where the 65-year-old opposition leader is receiving...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 19:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son restrained from assaulting his step-mum at hospital
The wife of ailing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is being denied access to visit him in a Johannesburg hospital where the 65-year-old opposition leader is receiving medical treatment, his spokesperson ...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo steps up colleges industrialisation drive
THE Government has stepped up the industrialisation and modernisation of the country's tertiary institutions through brokering more bilateral agreements with Cuba that will see experts in medicine and...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cancer cases in Zimbabwe on the rise
Cancer continues to be a threat with over 400 cases recorded annually since 2009, a trend that is worrying and needs urgent attention, a Cabinet minister has said. Officially opening Oncocare ...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
African hospitals adopt SOPHiA artificial intelligence to trigger continent-wide healthcare leapfrogging movement
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Sophia Genetics (www.SophiaGenetics.com), global leader in Data-Driven Medicine, unveiled today, at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Ameri...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 09:59hrs | 11 | by APO
New cancer hospital invites Morgan Tsvangirai
A CANCER treatment centre, which opened its doors to the public in Harare this week, has invited Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Morgan Tsvangirai to come and receive chemotherapy tr...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAA demand Parirenyatwa's resignation over cancer problems
Zimbabwe Activists Alliance(ZAA) in collaboration with Zimbabwe Women In Politics Alliance(ZWIPA) has expressed concerns and uttermost disgust in the manner in which the Government of Zimbabwe and the...Published: 10 May 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man has tumour weighing more than his weight removed in 'miracle' surgery
Doctors in India have successfully removed a massive 55 kg malignant bone tumour from a 26-year-old man's thigh. The man, Gurmeet Singh from Jalandhar, was suffering from the tumour for ...Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ekusileni Hospital delays irks MP
ZANU-PF Pelandaba-Mpopoma legislator Joseph Tshuma has expressed disappointment at the delayed opening of Ekusileni Hospital, a brainchild of the late veteran nationalist and Vice President Joshua Mqa...Published: 08 Oct 2015 at 06:52hrs | 7 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
SA company to run Bulawayo hospital
The government yesterday handed over Ekusileni Medical Centre to a South African company, Phodiso Holdings, paving way for the imminent re-opening of the health institution.Ekusileni will be r...Published: 11 Apr 2015 at 08:41hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Mugabe's exclusive Singapore hospital
GLENEAGLES Hospital in Singapore, where President Robert Mugabe is currently being treated officially for eye cataracts although speculation over cancer continue to swirl, is a world-class institution...Published: 23 May 2014 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Taller women at greater risk to develop cancer: Study
A new study by University of Oxford researchers suggests that taller women are at greater risk for 10 types of cancers compared with their shorter counterparts. The study linked 10 cancers to...Published: 23 Jul 2011 at 07:32hrs | | by Matthews Estell
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