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Chinese medical team treats over 7,000 Zimbabwean patients

Nearly six months on, the 22nd batch of the Chinese medical team in Zimbabwe has delivered treatment to more than 7,000 local patients.In an interview with Xinhua on Sunday in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, the team said its 11 medical p…

Published: 25 Aug 2025 at 22:24hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter

Boost for Zimbabwe cancer patients

Cancer patients, including children, have received a significant boost after two banks and one of Zimbabwe's leading supermarkets donated chemotherapy drugs and financial support to two cancer care organisations.At the handover ceremony, C…

Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 07:16hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter

'Zimbabwe govt to blame for death of kidney patients'

Senator Tapfumanei Wunganayi Muzoda has called on the government to urgently establish haemodialysis facilities across all health institutions in Zimbabwe to address the alarming number of deaths among kidney patients. Speaking during…

Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Ingutsheni overwhelmed by abandoned patients

AUTHORITIES at Zimbabwe's largest psychiatric hospital, Ingutsheni in Bulawayo, have accused families of dumping their loved ones who are suffering from mental health issues at the facility, resulting in overcrowding.Ingutsheni hospital ch…

Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:37hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Patients stranded as murse strike bites

THE ongoing public health professionals' strike that has crippled major government hospitals is continuing unabated until the demands of the workers have been met, leaving many patients stranded.This week, health workers in public institut…

Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter

Cancer patients stranded at Pari

THOUSANDS of cancer patients have been left stranded after Parirenyatwa Hospital's three radiotherapy machines broke down.Radiation is used to treat at least 50% of all cancer cases. It can be either curative or palliative, depending on th…

Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Shocking bills for Covid-19 patients

Most private hospitals offering Covid-19 treatment are turning the pandemic into an economic and psychological nightmare for patients, with some of the institutions charging admission fees of up to US$1 000 per night.With most Government h…

Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Driver, nurse, patients die in ambulance accident

A Karoi District Hospital ambulance driver, an escort nurse and two patients died after the ambulance they were travelling in collided with a two-tonne truck that was travelling to Kariba at the 196-kilometre-peg along Harare-Chirundu high…

Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 18:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mental Health Week: Consider patients from remote areas as well

As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating Mental Health Week, there is need to focus on the overwhelming number of psychiatric patients in remote areas like Tsholotsho. "Tsholotsho has hundreds of patients suffering from dif…

Published: 13 May 2021 at 11:12hrs | 6 | by Mncedisi Nyathi

Zimbabwe Covid-19 patients resort to home remedies

Clara Tandi felt feverish. Worried she was sick with the coronavirus, she grabbed handfuls of lemon, guava and mint leaves from her garden and boiled them into a liquid.Then Tandi (59) stripped off her clothes, swaddled herself in a blanke…

Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

UBH COVID-19 centre opens to public

The United Bulawayo Hospitals' (UBH) COVID-19 centre, which was under renovations for the past three months, has one of its wings completed and has admitted its first 16 patients who are on treatment for the disease.Old Bartley Memorial Bl…

Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter

'BCC clinics do not discriminate patients'

Personnel at Bulawayo City Council (BCC) clinics attend sensitisation workshops to equip them with skills to treat all patients, including people with different sexual orientation and key populations, such as commercial sex workers, a heal…

Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter

Relief for Bulawayo patients

Corporate24 Hospital on Friday launched a medical aid scheme in Bulawayo incorporating low-income earners and the informal sector that is absorbing thousands of people as companies close shop.Under the Corporate24's Ngile Plan medical aid …

Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter

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 Project (CCMP) has written to the parliamentary…

Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe's ex-Health minister to compensate patient

FORMER Health deputy minister, Edwin Muguti, has been ordered to pay R252 546 and $28 000 compensation to one of his patients, Patricia Singizi, following a botched medical procedure which resulted in a cut on her bile duct and right hepat…

Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Parirenyatwa ill-treating patients

Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals has apologised for ill-treatment of patients that occurred in ward C5.The incidence saw the complainant posting on social medial, pleading with the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa to help address the pro…

Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 17:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Families 'dump' relatives at Ekuphumuleni

HALF of inmates at Ekuphumuleni Geriatric Nursing Home in Bulawayo are reported to have been abandoned by their families that do not provide anything for their upkeep amid revelations that services at the institution are being crippled by …

Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Patients in agony across Zimbabwe

THOUSANDS of patients in Government medical institutions continue waiting in agony for doctors, as the strike by medical professionals enters its 25th day today.Yesterday, scores of patients - some in visible agony - waited for service at …

Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Pythons advise sangomas on patients' illnesses'

THESE two inyangas are known for their powerful healing abilities - but they said they have outside help.According to Sphamandla (32) and Sifiso Mthethwa (22), their remarkable abilities come from their ancestral pythons!The brothers from …

Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa rescures starving Ingutsheni patients

Vice President Mnangagwa has come to the rescue of hundreds starving patients at Ingutsheni Central Hospital by donating five tonnes of mealie meal.Early January, patients  at the hospital  were hit by scurvy - a disease common i…

Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 03:29hrs | 2 | by Alice Dube

Trainee doctor dies while attending to patients

A TRAINEE doctor collapsed and died while attending to patients at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo.Perfect Dondo (25), a National University of Science and Technology (Nust) part five medical student, was allegedly resuscitated twice be…

Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

All HIV+ patients in Zimbabwe to get ARVs

All people who tested positive to HIV from Manicaland and Matabeleland South provinces in June will immediately be placed on antiretroviral therapy regardless of their CD4 count as the country seeks to operationalise the latest World Healt…

Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Chipunza

Female, male psychiatric patients housed in the same hospital ward

 Psychiatric patients of both sexes at Gweru Hospital are reported to be housed at the same ward to the extent that patients have been caught having sex and some striping naked in front of each other.Relatives of some patients are up …

Published: 01 Mar 2012 at 12:27hrs | | by Alois Sibanda

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