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Zimbabwe ramps up fight against Covid-19
State universities and local firms have increased the production of drugs and materials required in fighting Covid-19, as Government intensified efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus. The ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 124 | by Staff reporter
Students stand in for striking nurses
STUDENT nurses at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have been commandeered to replace nurses who went on strike last week demanding COVID-19 risk allowances and personal protective equipment."Ou...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:52hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Re-imagining the post-COVID-19 political scene in Zimbabwe
There is no denying that the global pandemic figuratively known as COVID-19 has disrupted our everyday lives. Even our economies have ground to a halt. Our educational institutions have been for...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 200 | by Admire Mare
Jaure football career uncertain
MEDICAL experts have expressed fears that Dynamos and Warriors' Chan team captain Partson Jaure might be unable to ever take to the field despite undergoing a successful head operation on Sunday. ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:33hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Green Fuel branches into hand sanitisers
GREEN Fuel, Zimbabwe's biggest ethanol producer, has started producing hand sanitisers to assist in the fight against coronavirus. The company is already in the process of donating over 10 000...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:27hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Nurses who tested positive to COVID-19 at Parirenyatwa, false allegations
Parirenyatwa group of hospitals public relations office has dismissed allegations that some of their nurses tested possitive to the deadly COVID-19.In a statement seen by Bulawayo24.com the ho...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 18:18hrs | 2267 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
WATCH: Zimbabwean police soiling the war against Covid-19
The President of Zimbabwe cde Dambudzo Mnangagwa introduced drastic new measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, including banning public meetings of more than two people who do not live together....Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 11:17hrs | 3847 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Jaure undergoes head surgery
DYNAMOS captain Partson Jaure yesterday underwent a delicate operation in Harare to mend a skull fracture he sustained in a car crash last week. Jaure, who has been admitted at Parirenyatwa Ho...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:36hrs | 784 | by Edzai Zvobwo
David Parirenyatwa dumps lawyers
Former minister of Health and Child Care David Parirenyatwa has dumped his lawyers who represented him from trial commencement to the defence case.Parirenyatwa was initially represented by Adv...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:23hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Judge's son up for murder
THE son of a High Court judge and his two friends allegedly robbed a Harare cellphone dealer of his four handsets and fatally stabbed him before dumping the corpse in a bush in Ruwa. Munyaradz...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1871 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors issue corona threat
DOCTORS have warned that they will not attend to coronavirus patients unless authorities supply them with protective clothing and the necessary equipment, the Daily News reports.This comes as ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 16:57hrs | 2449 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe closes borders after COVID-19 death
ZIMBABWE yesterday closed its borders as government tightened measures to control the spread of coronavirus after the country recorded its first casualty from the pandemic, journalist Zororo Makamba, ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:39hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Govt moves to promote telehealth
Government is working towards promoting telehealth as it intensifies its efforts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. This followed the handover of an assortment of gadgets by the telecommun...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
A clerical call on ZEC to postpone by-elections until decisive measures are implemented to reduce exposure to Covid-19 pandemic
Zimbabwe's embattled leader Emmerson Mnangagwa last week declared COVID-19 a national disaster. Along with the declaration came a host of largely copycat ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 03:49hrs | 385 | by Magugu Benard, Zapu Secretary of Elections (NEC)
Jaure suffers head injury
DYNAMOS captain Partson Jaure was hospitalised after he crashed his car into a tree in Harare yesterday morning.Jaure suffered a skull fracture and is detained at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospita...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:55hrs | 1245 | by Staff reporter
Dembare captain escapes horror car crash
DYNAMOS captain Partson Jaure should be thanking his lucky stars after escaping without serious injuries from an accident that happened in the early hours of Sunday in Harare.The club confirme...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:33hrs | 733 | by newzimbabwe
Parirenyatwa hospital restricts visitors
People bringing patients to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals will with immediate effect be limited to two.In addition, visitors to the same patients will also be limited to two. Only two entran...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 17:48hrs | 1356 | by Staff reporter
81 people under Covid-19 watch in Bulawayo
EIGHTY-ONE people who arrived in Bulawayo through the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport recently have been placed under surveillance for Covid-19, a Cabinet Minister has said.Health a...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 08:09hrs | 8043 | by Staff Reporter
Dr Samuel Parirenyatwa assasination: new details emerge
FRESH details have emerged around the death of the country's first black doctor and Zapu vice president Dr Samuel Parirenyatwa in 1962, that the Rhodesians wanted to recreate as an accident scene. ...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 06:58hrs | 2233 | by Staff reporter
Bid to delay Parirenyatwa trial flops
The trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa on charges of criminal abuse of office will now continue, with him presenting his defence after yesterday's attempt to delay the t...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:18hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in Coronavirus panic
HEALTH groups in the country sounded alarm bells yesterday after neighbouring South Africa confirmed its first case of coronavirus (COVID-19), in KwaZulu-Natal and called for tighter controls at the c...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 18:03hrs | 2339 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga embarrassed at clean-up
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday abandoned a clan-up campaign scheduled for Mvurwi after only a handful of party officials turned up, leading to a bitter meeting of the Zanu-PF provincial...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:59hrs | 10261 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MPs out of order - War veterans
War Veterans in Mashonaland Central province have accused all the 18 legislators in the province of sabotaging president Emmerson Mnangagwa by not campaigning for him.War veterans leader in th...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 10:23hrs | 2638 | by Tarisai Mudahondo/ Paul Ndou
Mashonaland Central legislators sabotaging Mnangagwa
WAR veterans in Mashonaland Central province have accused all the province's 18 Members of Parliament of sabotaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa by using his government-funded food handouts for their ...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:32hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF eyes win in Chimanimani
Zanu-PF has expressed confidence of retaining the Chimanimani East Ward 16 council seat in the March 14 by-election. The seat, which covers areas such as Gwindingwi, Silverstream, Duri, among ...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Another coronavirus scare hits Zimbabwe
THE government last night confirmed that a traveller from China had been isolated and was being tested for coronavirus (Covid-19) after being flagged by authorities, a second such case in Zimbabwe....Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:12hrs | 2220 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first coronavirus suspect back in hospital
A 27-YEAR-OLD Harare woman suspected to have contracted coronavirus after she visited Wuhan, China, has been readmitted at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital, raising fears authorities could hav...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:41hrs | 3783 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa approaches High Court over dismissed application
Former Health minister David Parirenyatwa, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, has approached the High Court after a Harare magistrate dismissed his application for discharge at the close ...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:36hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors bemoan health sector decay
THE Zimbabwe Medical Association (Zima) Mashonaland provincial chairperson, Edward Chagonda yesterday said poverty among health personnel was worsening with some government doctors and nurses no longe...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 07:33hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa equates corruption to cancer
The New Dispensation is on a vigorous drive to eliminate all forms of corruption from all sectors of society as they are a cancer that impedes meaningful development to take place, Harare Post can rep...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 18:28hrs | 882 | by Innocent Mujeri
BCC has powers to change street names - Justice Minister
The Bulawayo City Council has the powers to change street names in the city contrary to claims by deputy local government minister Marian Chombo that the local authority cannot effect the name changes...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 16:18hrs | 1260 | by Staff Reporter
Police break silence on Wedza shooting incident
POLICE in Mashonaland East province have broken the silence on a shooting incident involving the officer-in-charge at Hwedza Police Station, who allegedly shot an imbiber at a local nightclub....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:43hrs | 1815 | by Staff reporter
New heart surgery centre set to open
AS ZIMBABWE battles to rebuild its broken health delivery system, Parirenyatwa Hospital is to set up a centre to perform open heart surgeries, the Daily News reports.This comes as the country'...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa has case to answer: Magistrate
HARARE regional magistrate Elijah Makomo has dismissed an application for discharge filed by former Health minister, David Parirenyatwa, who is being charged with abuse of office for ordering the irre...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:23hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Hospitals situation improves in Zimbabwe
THE situation at the country's hospitals has improved after doctors ended their strike with all junior doctors reporting for work at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospital, a doctors asso...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:47hrs | 533 | by Staff Reporter
Parirenyatwa requires US$31m to function optimally
PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals requires US$31 million if it is to operate efficiently as a central hospital, the hospital’s group chief executive officer Ernest Munyawu told Parliament last...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Nurse syndicate channel ARVs to black market
Anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that are supposed to be dispensed for free by public health institutions are being diverted to the black market by some unscrupulous nurses, who are selling a month's suppl...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
BCC to approach Mnangagwa's Cabinet over street name changes
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is in the process of recommending to Government to adopt new names to streets, buildings and places after councillors passed a resolution to rename them. In a telep...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:45hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors claim abuse of Global Fund facility
SENIOR doctors have asked Parliament to investigate alleged hijacking of funds from the Global Fund earmarked to pay doctors retention allowances so that they do not leave the country for greener past...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
US$3.5 million for hospital equipment goes missing
Senior doctors have told Parliament that US$3.5 million injected by a well-wisher at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals to purchase critical heart equipment had gone missing.More to follow......Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
BCC has no powers to change street names'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has no powers to change street and buildings names but can only submit proposals to Cabinet that has a final say on any name changes, a senior official has said. ...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:49hrs | 1299 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo strips Leopold Takawira of road honour, changed to King Mzilikazi Road
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has stripped Leopold Takawira of the honour of having one of its major roads named after him, after renaming it to King Mzilikazi Road.King Mzilikazi was the fo...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 11:49hrs | 12879 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni defends Cecil John Rhodes
Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has defended the renaming of Cecil Avenue to Cecil John Rhodes Avenue by the Bulawayo City Council calling it a preservation of part of our history. Ndiwen...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 10:26hrs | 3656 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Private pharmacy at Parirenyatwa raises stink
DOCTORS at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have asked Parliament to intervene and investigate the issue of a private pharmacy within the hospital's premises, which is competing with the hospital pharm...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Bar manager killed over empty bottle
POLICE at Kotwa Growth Point in Mudzi have arrested an imbiber who allegedly stabbed a bar manager with a pool stick after a misunderstanding over an empty beer bottle.Nyasha Mafuku (age not g...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council ignore Cabinet suggestions on street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has renamed some of the city's major streets and buildings in a move the local authority says is meant to preserve the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial history ...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 464 | 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 | 623 | 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 | 546 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses clash
A fact-finding visit to Harare's two biggest hospitals by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health yesterday exposed the acrimonious working relations between nurses and doctors who traded accu...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:52hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
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