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Doctors meet Chiwenga
Senior doctors who have been providing partial services and attending to emergency cases only since December have up-scaled their services to include other cases deemed as urgent. This means, ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 139 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes drug thefts at hospitals
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now monitoring public hospitals and clinics to curb thefts and ensure drugs are not diverted to the black market. This follows checks that wer...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:14hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors give up, trickle back to work
A MAN lies on a stretcher, visibly in pain but at ease while three other people sit on wheelchairs, with over a dozen more sitting on benches — chatting and waiting.If one had been here just...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:26hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Army bus accident injures 11
Eleven Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officers were injured last night when the driver of the bus they were travelling in lost control as it descended a slope near Kuwadzana 6 and veered off the road be...Published: 09 Jan 2020 at 12:03hrs | 1896 | by Staff Reporter
'Will send army to beat you if cause drought' Freudian slip from man of blood - still here cometh change
In a circular to local hospitals, Health and Child Care Permanent Secretary Agnes Mahomva announced that Ante-natal ward per day will now cost $200 at Parirenyatwa Hospital, $160 at central hospitals ...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1055 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Will send army to beat you if cause drought' Freudian slip from man of blood - still here cometh change
In a circular to local hospitals, Health and Child Care Permanent Secretary Agnes Mahomva announced that Ante-natal ward per day will now cost $200 at Parirenyatwa Hospital, $160 at central hospitals ...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 09:47hrs | 2194 | by Nomusa Garikai
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 | 1519 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe lures China direct flights
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is lobbying for a direct flight from China to Zimbabwe as it seeks to attract more tourists from the Asian giant. ZTA said the absence of a direct flight b...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 06:01hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
High costs hit police station project
A PROJECT to build a police station in Woodlands, Vungu, spearheaded by Chiwundura MP Livingstone Chimina (MDC Alliance) together with community leaders, has stalled due to inflation that has deflated...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:50hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
Police shoot at fleeing kombi, injure 3
THREE people were injured after police yesterday fired at a commuter omnibus while attempting to stop the driver who was fleeing from a roadblock in Mabvuku, Harare.Police spokesperson Assista...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:49hrs | 1797 | by Staff reporter
Khombi accident claims 10 lives along Harare-Nyamapanda highway
Ten people died on Friday morning when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in burst its tyre and veered off the road at the 186 km peg along the Harare Nyamapanda highway.Ten people died o...Published: 21 Dec 2019 at 08:23hrs | 2233 | by Staff Reporter
Mat South will never be the same again
The people of Matabeleland South have come up with a unique concept for developing their province through water provision. Amanzi Mat South Co-operative Society is a new Membership based organisation....Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 13:08hrs | 4060 | by Thulani Nkala
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 | 164 | by Staff reporter
Hospital services return to normal
All doctors who signed resumption of duty forms have started work at their respective work stations, with their seniors also attending to emergency situations. Although The Herald could not im...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 04:51hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF splurges $14 million on salaries
ZANU-PF gobbled nearly $14 million in salaries for the year 2019 as the party doled out ministerial packages for its full-time politburo workers and montly allowances for central committee members....Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1274 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors troop back to work
Eighty junior doctors were back at work by yesterday, while another 282 are expected to have joined them by the beginning of next month. Part of the incentives to get junior doctors back to wo...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:41hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Harare Hospital not closed
Harare Central Hospital is not closed and is still providing services to patients needing emergency care just like all the other four central hospitals.This is contrary to social media rumours...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 17:18hrs | 2068 | by Staff reporter
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 | 6660 | by Staff reporter
Junior doctors heading for split
A number of junior doctors are planning to break away from the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) which they say has been "captured" by foreign organisations. Indications are that th...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:27hrs | 834 | 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 | 479 | by Staff reporter
Gwinji exonerates Parirenyatwa
THE decision to terminate former NatPharm managing director Ms Flora Nancy Sikefu's contract and to move her to the Ministry of Health headquarters was reached following a series of consultations betw...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 08:59hrs | 445 | 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 | 3771 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 744 | by newzimbabwe
Violence at Mugabe farm
VIOLENCE broke out at the late former President Robert Mugabe's farm on the outskirts of Harare on Saturday night, resulting in the injury of a farm security worker.The worker was allegedly ha...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:20hrs | 649 | by Staff rpeorter
David Parirenyatwa points accusing finger at police as trial resumes
Former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa yesterday accused police of dictating what ex-NatPharm board chair Dr George Washaya should say when giving statements during investigations in...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:07hrs | 553 | 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 | 416 | by Fortune Nyamande
Carnage in Zimbabwe hospitals continues
TOUTS are usually known for their confidence, foul language and naughtiness, but recently, they sobered up when one of their own died right on the streets with his hospital record card in hand, after ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:48hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Patients call for doctors to return
Patients seeking treatment from public health institutions countrywide have pleaded with junior doctors to end their impasse with the Government over salaries and find it in their hearts to assist the...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:43hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Health crisis moves from tragedy to farce
GOVERNMENT has failed to solve its impasse with medical doctors, who have withdrawn services from the country's major hospitals for 89 days today. While the country's health delivery system remains in...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
War veterans, minister clash over land
War veterans in Mashonaland Central province have accused Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mavhunga of allegedly grabbing land from stalwarts of the liberation struggle and re-allocating it to peopl...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:44hrs | 347 | 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 | 302 | 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 | 7648 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why Zimbabwe's fired junior doctors remain key
In politics, the youths are said to be the vanguard of political parties while in medicine I would put it that the junior doctors are the hummingbirds that bring life to central hospitals.The ...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1021 | by Dr Johannes Marisa
War veterans, minister clash over land
War veterans in Mashonaland Central province have accused Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mavhunga of allegedly grabbing land from stalwarts of the liberation struggle and re-allocating it to peopl...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:41hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors withdraw labour in solidarity with fired junior doctors
Zimbabwe's public hospitals face a complete shutdown after specialist senior doctors on Tuesday announced that they would stop attending to emergencies in solidarity with over 400 doctors sacked for g...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 20:12hrs | 2253 | by ZimLive
Mugabe's ex-Health minister faces negligence claim
FORMER Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti has lost his bid to challenge a High Court order compelling him to pay R252 546 and $28 000 to a local couple after he negligently conducted an operation whi...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:29hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Mission hospitals overwhelmed
Desperate patients, failing to get help at State hospitals due to the strike by some Government doctors, are flocking to mission hospitals, with Karanda Hospital in Mt Darwin now seeing up to 500 pati...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:34hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Popular Madzibaba dies in car crash
Ex-minister Parirenyatwa trial date setThe trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa on charges of criminal abuse of office will resume on December 2 after the State yester...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:03hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe resurrected
AFTER making headlines with Operation Restore Regasi last year, Masvingo's Charles Austin Theatre is bringing another intriguing political piece titled A Live Discussion with the Late Robert Mugabe, s...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:38hrs | 3934 | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievements by the midwife. And juxtapose that to the situa...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 646 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
WATCH: No doctors or nurses at Parirenyatwa Hospital
A video of an empty Parirenyatwa hospital without any members of staff has surfaced online. The video which was posted by award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono shows the patients ward...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 08:24hrs | 3830 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gweru residents plot siege on council offices
RESIDENTS from Gweru's Mkoba and Woodlands Park high-density suburbs have threatened to protest against the city council's failure to provide water to ratepayers and deal with its dumpsite, which is s...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa supporters in fatal crash
Two MDC activists in Mashonaland East died in a road accident on Sunday night when their vehicle collided head-on with another near Ruwa while on their way from Harare, where they had gone for a rally...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1468 | by Staff reporter
Minister Obadiah Moyo said prepared to seek treatment at Parirenyatwa
HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo says he was prepared - if he were to fall sick sometime - to seek treatment at Parirenyatwa government hospital, more so, by the same doctors he has seemingly antagonised ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 642 | by newzimbabwe
Tragedy of the doctors' crippling strike
It is simple: The tragedy of the over two-months doctors' strike is that Zimbabwe has two finely distinct groups; those who feel (the majority) the impact of the strike and those who talk (the minorit...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1768 | by Learnmore Zuze
Doctors' absence prolongs patients' suffering
ORDINARY citizens whose pockets are not deep enough to afford private medical care continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing stand-off between medical doctors — who have been on industrial action fo...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:19hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trainee medical registrars boycott final exams
DOZENS of University of Zimbabwe (UZ) postgraduate medical registrars, Monday boycotted their end of course examinations claiming they missed out on crucial practical lessons due to the ongoing strike...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 21:45hrs | 2782 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe runs out of contraceptives
Public hospital doctors have lashed out at the Health Services Board (HSB) for firing 77 doctors since Tuesday.Addressing Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) members and the media at...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:53hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
War veterans evicted from farms
The tables have turned for war veterans who led controversial land reform programme as white farmers are getting back farms in Mashonaland Central. This revelation comes after ex-combatants in the pro...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:55hrs | 4461 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate's no-show stalls Parirenyatwa trial
The trial of former Health minister David Parirenyatwa on charges of criminal abuse of office failed to continue yesterday after trial magistrate Elijah Makomo did not avail himself.This is the se...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:38hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
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