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COVID-19 wrecks Mpilo Hospital
OVER 40 staffers at the opportunistic infection (OI) clinic at Mpilo Central Hospital have reportedly tested positive to COVID-19."COVID-19 cases among staff are out of control," said one of t...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1002 | by Staff reporter
UBH still open to members of the public
MEMBERS of the public in need of medical attention can still access services at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) but only those who test Covid-19 positive will be admitted with those suffering from oth...Published: 10 hrs ago | 180 | by Staff reporter
13 more Covid-19 deaths in Zimbabwe
A record 13 new deaths from Covid-19 were reported yesterday, but all were patients who died over the weekend or on Monday in the community or on admission to casualty at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospita...Published: 10 hrs ago | 396 | by Staff reporter
Cost of under reporting covid-19 to look good - virus spreads to Zanu PF chefs too, no sacred cows
Ever since the day, 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic many governments across the world prepared themselves to do what they could to contain the virus,...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3478 | by Nomusa Garikai
Private doctors send distress call
DOCTORS in private practice have appealed for government and corporate sector assistance in the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) as they have been overwhelmed by patients turned away f...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 2797 | by Staff reporter
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mustn't politic, but engage health workers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend call on striking health workers to return to their workstations as their grievances are "being looked into" doesn't sound genuine given government's lackadaisica...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Harare now Covid-19 epicentre
More than 1 200 people have now been infected by Covid-19 in Harare, the new Zimbabwean epicentre, after the dramatic jump in confirmed infections this weekend. Zimbabwe now has 3 921 confirme...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
SA based couple donates PPEs to Ezra Tshisa Sibanda Initiative
The South Africa based couple has donated personal protective equipment to the Ezra Tshisa Sibanda Initiative meant for the health institutions in Bulawayo....Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 12:19hrs | 3916 | by Stephen Jakes
Lavish party from hell triggers Covid-19 panic after two deaths
THE Bulawayo City Health Department has instituted an investigation after claims that a dozen of people who attended a lavish and wild birthday party thrown by a city socialite and businessman last mo...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4130 | by Staff Reporter
Hospitals should not demand Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients
Hospitals should neither turn away patients nor demand a Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients, particularly in emergency cases, the Government has said.The exhortation comes after th...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:04hrs | 724 | by Staff Reporter
Appoint Chiwenga as health minister to tackle Covid-19
Zimbabwe is now gripped with the reality of the effects of COVID-19. It is now sinking in people's minds that COVID 19 is real and indeed serious. Zimbabwe lost a lot of people to the virus. In one we...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3663 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Death is Upon Us', The Question is Who is Next?
We underestimated the COVID-19 crisis, it is now upon us. Our people are dying, it might be you or me next. Your Excellency, Mr President Sir family and friends are being turned away at hospitals beca...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:55hrs | 8873 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe declares 12 new Covid-19 deaths previously missed
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll climbed to 53 on Thursday as the ministry of health announced 12 previously undeclared deaths which occurred between July 13 and 20.There were 213 new cases of t...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 3563 | by Staff reporter
19 COVID-19 patients risk death...soldiers block driver from supplying oxygen
Nineteen Coronavirus patients risks dying at a Harare medical institution after soldiers blocked an oxygen delivery company to deliver the consignment. The soldiers are currently doing an oper...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 10:57hrs | 2113 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Senior doctors down tools
SENIOR doctors yesterday downed tools, joining nurses who have been on strike for more than 40 days, a move that will add a strain to the country's already paralysed healthcare system.The stri...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF rigged election and now rigging covid-19 data with tragic consequences
This Zanu PF regime blatantly rigging the coronavirus statistics with disastrous consequences to us all! "The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors a...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1671 | by Nomusa Garikai
Potraz warns against bogus online COVID-19 doctors
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has warned of bogus health experts who post online information purporting it to be useful in the fight against COVID-19....Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:17hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told not to use lockdown for political expediency
ZIMBABWE Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has urged the government to desist from using lockdown measures for political expediency.This comes at a time the government has put in...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:17hrs | 1362 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt begs doctors to stop strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday begged senior doctors to reconsider their threat to go on strike from today as COVID-19 wreaks havoc in the health sector, with 253 healthcare workers (HCWs) falling victim to the...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Defiance in Covid-19 hotspot suburbs
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo's Covid-19 hotspot suburbs continue to flout lockdown regulations despite the threat posed by the global pandemic in their communities, as local transmissions constitute 90 perce...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter
Hospital still 'urging for mandatory covid-19 testing' - we must hold Zanu PF to account for this
Detail matter! Zanu PF has committed murder, literally and metaphorically, again and again but has got away with it time and time again because the Zimbabwean people have either failed to notice, whic...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:08hrs | 720 | by Nomusa Garikai
Stiffer conditions to pass roadblocks
Police at roadblocks will now be seeking more detailed documentation signed by an employee's chief executive officer or general manager so that those legitimately going to work in an essential service...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Movie-style robbery at Harare private hospital
OVER a dozen suspected armed robbers pounced movie-style on the affluent Borrowdale Hospital Trauma Centre yesterday -an incident that was captured on CCTV. National police spokesperson Paul N...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1858 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Covid-19 hotspot suburbs revealed
FOUR high-density suburbs have been singled out the hotspots of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bulawayo, with authorities hinting that considerations were being put in place to introduce stiffer lockdown me...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 deaths now 28
With 90 patients testing positive for Covid-19 yesterday, 83 of them local infections, the Zimbabwean total reached 2 124 and two new deaths drove the death toll to 28. The daily number of new...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni in dire straits
AUTHORITIES at Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo are struggling to raise the US$3,4 million required to upgrade the facility to enable it to cater for COVID-19 patients.Authorities said the...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:29hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
200 nurses, doctors contract COVID-19
ABOUT 200 health workers have tested positive to COVID-19, forcing some hospitals to shut down as government continues to dither on its promise to avail adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3001 | by Staff reporter
Night curfew, restricted business hours imposed
A night curfew from 6pm to 6am for all but essential services and a retreat to 8am to 3pm working hours for exempted businesses have been imposed from today, along with criminalisation of deliberate o...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa impose curfew to contain covid-19 - madness, need nurses and PPE not soldiers and guns
I have listened to President Mnangagwa's address to the nation three times and still failed to understand what understand the purpose. Yes, the number of corona virus cases have increased significantl...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1073 | by Nomusa Garikai
Only essential services staff to report for duty
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe passed 1 700 yesterday, with more than half the patients infected within the country, the Government has decided that only civil servants providin...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2844 | by Staff reporter
66 positive Covid-19 cases at Bulawayo Prison
FORTY-THREE inmates and 23 prison officers at Bulawayo Prison have tested positive for Covid-19 amid reports that cases are on the increase in the city. Bulawayo has recorded 36 new Covid-19 c...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:02hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa says Million people to get free Covid-19 drug
ECONET founder Strive Masiyiwa says an African Union (AU) initiative set up to mobilise resources to fight Covid-19 is facilitating the free distribution of a drug to treat the disease.Masiyiw...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 2174 | by Staff reporter
Police tighten lockdown regulations
POLICE have started tightening lockdown regulations especially in major cities with 1 000 people having been arrested in two days for flouting measures that were put in place to deal with rising cases...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: Africa Medical Supplies Platform experiences surge in use of by AU member states
- Supply chain platform secures lifesaving COVID-19 treatment for 1million Africans - Expands to include African hospitals and Caribbean Community cou...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:08hrs | 194 | by Agencies
Covid-19 epicentre shifts to Bulawayo
THE Covid-19 epicentre has shifted from Harare to Bulawayo with health experts warning that Matabeleland provinces are under heightened threat due to their proximity to South Africa, Africa's epicentr...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Specialist doctors threaten strike
A MASSIVE health crisis is looming in Zimbabwe after specialist doctors yesterday threatened to down tools if their demands were not met in the next two weeks.The doctors said they would join ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 deaths jump to 23
Zimbabwe's total of confirmed Covid-19 cases jumped to 1 362 yesterday, after a large batch of samples taken over the past week were processed in Bulawayo, with Bulawayo also reporting three more deat...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Council hikes maternity fees 14-fold
Harare City Council has announced a 14-fold increase in clinic and maternity fees, a move that is raising opposition as the charges will now vary directly with weekly changes in the exchange rate, wit...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's daily confirmed COVID-19 cases surpass 10,000 mark for days
South Africa's daily confirmed COVID-19 cases have surpassed 10,000 for days running, indicating the approaching of the infection peak, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday. In the pas...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for help to resuscitate ailing economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appealed to various stakeholders to participate in the development of a National Development Strategy in efforts to rebuild the ailing economy.This comes as Zi...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 6136 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus hits Kuda Tagwirei's hospital
Professor Jonathan Moyo has reported that 5 people tested positive at Rock Foundation Medical Centre which is owned by Sakunda Holdings. Moyo said the infection came from a salon at Westgate. ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 10:52hrs | 10632 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo nurses stage another joint demonstration
NURSES from the United Bulawayo Hospitals, Ingutsheni Mental Health Hospital and Mpilo Central Hospital staged a joint demonstration yesterday over government's reluctance to pay their salaries in Uni...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 3000 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's funeral parlours at full capacity?
The long-feared Covid-19 coronavirus storm has arrived.Funeral parlours are battling to cope with demand as Covid-19-related deaths around the country rise daily, and government is increasing ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:46hrs | 2960 | by City Press
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll jumps to 13
Zimbabwe is moving fast towards confirming its 1 000th Covid-19 patient, with the total reaching 942 yesterday after 41 more positive tests on Thursday and 16 yesterday. The death toll rose to...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:01hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
3 more die of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
Three more people have died of Covid 19 bringing the cumulative number of deaths in Zimbabwe to 12 as confirmed cases have risen to 926 after 41 new cases were recorded yesterday.Two deaths we...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:27hrs | 2759 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must be vigilant on dealing with Covid --19: WILD
Women's Institute for Leadership Development - WILD, Zimbabwe has urged Zimbabwe to be now vigilant in dealing with the Covid 19 as the disease is escalating its toll."Now is the time for the ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 11:18hrs | 1182 | by Stephen Jakes
UBH reviews user fees upwards
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals have reviewed its user fees upwards the fees ranges from between $250 to $15 000.The development comes at a time when the government recently increased civil serv...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:21hrs | 981 | by Stephen Jakes
Covid-19: 18 UBH health workers test positive
EIGHTEEN health personnel working in the same ward at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) have tested positive for Covid-19 after allegedly attending to an infected patient, The Chronicle reported....Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1911 | by Staff Reporter
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