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Mpilo radiotherapy patients stranded
ABOUT 150 cancer patients accessing radiation services from Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo are stranded following the breakdown of machinery at the hospital since November last year. Radia...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1316 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to replace POSA with Peace & Order Bill
CABINET yesterday approved the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill which seeks to repeal the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), Protection of Personal Information Bill and the Freedom of Informatio...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1308 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga still fighting ailment, still feeling 'kupisa'
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is in the Indian capital of New Delhi, where he is receiving treatment for an abdominal ailment, a government official revealed yesterday.Information deputy...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:44hrs | 16763 | by Staff reporter
Masowe woman in record breaking home deliveries
AT 30, Vongai Matara Gondo, a midwife of the Johanne Masowe ye Chishanu apostolic sect, has helped 157 women to deliver.Vongai says midwifery is her calling.Despite the high risks that...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:43hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
ZCLDN holds drug masterplan roundtable
Today, the Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network held a breakfast roundtable meeting in Harare with government officials, police and officials from several non-governmental organisations on the Na...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 11:47hrs | 255 | by ZCLDN
Lumumba's ally blasts Strive Masiyiwa's bank
Fresh In A Box founder and William Mutumanje's close ally Kuda Musasiwa has slammed Steward Bank and Ecocash for the transaction charges that are charged by the two entities.Steward Bank and E...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 15:09hrs | 4617 | by Mandla Ndlovu
UBH suspends surgeries due to water shortages
BULAWAYO City Council's 36-hour water rationing programme has forced United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to suspend all surgical operations, putting patients' lives at risk.UBH chief executive off...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:43hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage looms
GOVERNMENT says it is expecting a deficit in antiretroviral (ARV) drugs between now and 2020 due to an increase in uptake of the HIV and Aids treatment programme.The Health and Child Care mini...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1178 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF feeds Govt economic drive
The ruling party last December held its Annual People's Conference in Esigodini where a number of resolutions that centre on the economy were passed.But over and above the resolutions, we had ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:49hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
What the fuel protests mean for Zimbabweans
Zimbabweans had been hoping for a fresh start when Robert Mugabe's 38-year rule came to an end in November 2017.But 14 months on, a brutal crackdown on fuel protests, which has left 17 people ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2202 | by IRIN
Medical Aid Societies increase payments for healthcare services
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe has increased the fees payable by its member medical aid societies to healthcare service providers with effect from Monday (February 11).Payme...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:04hrs | 1294 | by Agencies
Hospital fees skyrocket
ZIMBABWE has been plunged into yet another health crisis as hospital fees have sharply risen, well beyond the affordability of most citizens, with most private health institutions now demanding paymen...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:49hrs | 1807 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga must be deported back to Zimbabwe
DISGRUNTLED Zimbabweans living in South Africa yesterday ratcheted up pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa's government to deport Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who was reportedly admitted to a...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:49hrs | 5511 | by Staff reporter
NatPharm to open retail pharmacies
THE National Pharmaceuticals Company (NatPharm) will soon establish retail pharmacies that will dispense drugs at affordable prices and accept forms of payment accessible to the majority as Government...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:52hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Fire breaks out at Parirenyatwa hospital
A fire suspected to have been caused by an electrical fault gutted part of Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals this Saturday afternoon, damaging part of the hospital's theatre wards.Patients at Mb...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 13:30hrs | 3844 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pushes for increased Internet usage
ICT minister Kazembe Kazembe says government is forging ahead with its plans push to bring high-speed Internet to rural areas around the country in an effort to accelerate economic development....Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 15:13hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe frets over looted drugs
THE Government has warned people against buying and using prescribed drugs and other pharmaceutical items that were looted when pharmacies were broken into during the violent stay away recently, sayin...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:04hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Internet shutdown negatively impacts on Zimbabwe businesses
THE internet shutdown by government has had an adverse impact on business operations in various sectors of the economy, businessdigest has learnt.Government last week switched off internet con...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:06hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Foreign drug manufacturers cut off supplies to Zimbabwe
THE pharmaceutical sector in Zimbabwe owes foreign suppliers more than $39 million for imported raw materials as well as finished products, resulting in supplies to the southern African country being ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:17hrs | 845 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers leave ugly terror trail
Horror stories are slowly emerging of how the country's trigger-happy security forces brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans this week - shooting 68 people and leaving dozens others requiring life-savi...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:48hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers in Boko Haram-style invasions
AT a private hospital in Harare on Wednesday, a mother lay between her two children, all writhing in pain from injuries sustained when masked soldiers attacked their home Boko Haram-style.Afte...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:59hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
172 injured people attended to, 68 gunshots wounds recorded
The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has said it attended to 172 people between Monday and Wednesday, of which 68 had gunshot wounds, with the affected individuals sustaining s...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:22hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctor group reports 68 gunshot wounds
In a grim recounting, the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights says it has treated 68 cases of gunshot wounds amid a government crackdown on protests over a fuel price hike.Its sta...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 07:50hrs | 722 | by AFP
Latest update on day 2 of Army killings
Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) have given an update on the state of the situation in Zimbabwe. They have released preliminary report of the injured and the deceased a...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 08:06hrs | 3774 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Five people feared dead as protests hit Zimbabwe
FIVE people reportedly died while 24 others were injured as police clashed with protesters across the country yesterday as anger over the worsening economic crisis spilled onto the streets with busine...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 06:25hrs | 1576 | by Staff Reporter
Threats and blackmail: The real story behind the doctors' return to wards
They stood their ground against government threats, but it took coercion from one of their own to end the junior doctors' 40-day strike.At one time they were fired by Vice-President Constantin...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | 4406 | by Everson Mushava
Police shut down shrine as cholera claims sect leader
MINISTRY of health officials in Murewa have for the second time in less than a month called in the police to shut down a popular Johanne Marange apostolic sect shrine in the area following the death o...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:31hrs | 402 | by newzimbabw
Mnangagwa suspends purchase of vehicles for Ministers
GOVERNMENT has suspended the purchase of condition of service vehicles for all ministers, with the money now being used to purchase a fleet of new ambulances for public health facilities, Finance and ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:00hrs | 403 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe forex woes hit ARV procurement
Government has made strides in the fight against HIV/AIDS, which has seen the country reducing the HIV prevalence rate from a high of 27 percent in 1997 to the current 13 percent, but resource constra...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 18:55hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Growing unrest exposes official posturing
FAILURE by government to address the unrelenting currency crisis has come back to haunt the country as evidenced by widespread unrest triggered by the rising cost of living.Finance minister Mt...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 10:00hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors 'arm-twisted' to suspend strike
JUNIOR doctors at public hospitals yesterday ended their 40-day long strike after some consultant doctors allegedly threatened to cause them to fail their internship.The Zimbabwe Hospitals Doc...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira offers Mnangagwa a solution
MDC T notes with concern the lack of urgency by the government of Zimbabwe to address the debilitating economic crisis. It is not a secret that the current government has failed to stabilize the econo...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 08:14hrs | 3569 | by Linda Masarira
The fallacy of production in Zimbabwe!!
There is this fallacy in Zimbabwe and among Zimbabweans that production is a pre-conditionality for economic revival. This view unfortunately misses the point altogether. Zimbabweans do not seem...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:45hrs | 491 | by Colls Ndlovu
Mission, council facilities turning away patients?
A Mutare based civil rights pressure group has petitioned Parliament on why mission and council health facilities were not recognising referrals from social welfare.Community Crime Monitoring ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:25hrs | 191 | 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 | 2520 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa commends civil servants
President Mnangagwa yesterday paid tribute to civil servants unions for displaying "maturity" during a consultative meeting on salaries and conditions of service the workers held with Government repre...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:20hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
More doctors report for duty
More doctors yesterday heeded Government's call to return to work and joined their colleagues who reported for duty on Monday. In a statement yesterday, Government said all doctors who had bee...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Blame not the striking doctors but the insatiable greed of ruling elite for the nation's mess
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: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:24hrs | 368 | by Nomusa Garikai
Doctors divided over strike
Cracks have begun to emerge among striking junior doctors after some of them returned to work yesterday as part of an agreement they signed with the Government at the weekend. However, others ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:57hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
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 | 7042 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Many Zimbabweans in the UK abandon their professions to become nurses
Nurses do enjoy a diverse and rewarding career that really makes a difference. Nurses act as leaders, carers and clinicians, taking responsibility for the care they provide to patients. They are life ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:51hrs | 7587 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa allowing his wife 'to usurp constitutional power'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing allegations of allowing his wife Auxilia "to usurp constitutional power". Analysts said Mnangagwa's wife has no right to run government, and questioned i...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 19:29hrs | 2402 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers planning paralyzing strike
Zimbabwean teachers are planning a stay away next Tuesday on the first day of the school year due to the harsh economic situation which has resulted in the devaluation of their salaries.In a state...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 19:26hrs | 845 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife overstepping her mandate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing allegations of allowing his wife Auxilia "to usurp constitutional power". Analysts said Mnangagwa's wife has no right to run government, and questioned i...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 8259 | by Staff reporter
$3m to fight cancer
Government will this year release US$3 million in support for cancer programmes.As resources become available, there are also plans to establish a fully-fledged cancer hospital.Current...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:02hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike calls for relook into health policy
AS the circus and confusion with regards to the junior doctors' strike continues unabated, it is time government shows sincerity to both the disgruntled medical practitioners and the general public....Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:38hrs | 256 | by Editorial - newsday
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 | 859 | by Vanessa Gonye
Unregulated, unregistered medicines flooding into Zimbabwe
Unregulated and unregistered medicines are reportedly flooding into Zimbabwe, with consignments of expired medicines being smuggled into the country through the country's porous border posts.S...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:03hrs | 430 | by African News Agency
'Intern' doctors agree to go back to work within the next 48 hours
Junior doctors have agreed to call off their strike and should be back at work by 5pm on Monday following an agreement at today's bipartite forum in Harare.The doctors spent the whole of today...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 20:41hrs | 4518 | by Staff reporter
Striking 'intern' doctors agree to return to work
The junior doctors who had withdrawn their services have agreed in principle to return to work after holding a meeting with the First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa this morning.The junior docto...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:41hrs | 1657 | by Staff reporter
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