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Pioneering progress amid resource constraints in African radiology and oncology
Experts are concerned about resource limits and insufficient radiology skills and services in Africa, particularly for cancer detection and treatment. As the continent grapples with the rising burden ...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:41hrs | 143 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe Defense Forces embark on nationwide recruitment campaign
The Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) has launched a comprehensive recruitment drive to bolster its ranks within the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ).The ZNA is see...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 18:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo MRI scan takes first patients
IN 2020, Thamsanqa Nyathi (15) developed sudden headaches, which were diagnosed as a brain tumour, a condition that brought serious changes to his life. He went for surgery that same year to a...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo MRI scan machine installed
A NEW state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imagining (MRI) scan has been installed at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, a huge boost to health service delivery for the southern region as it will enha...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Advanced equipment to boost services at Mpilo
MEMBERS of the public will enjoy improved access to affordable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services at Mpilo Central Hospital following the procuring of new advanced equipment to boost quality he...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga should act on health licence fees
REGULATORY authorities are some of the major cost drivers of health service delivery in our country.With health financing mainly out-of-pocket, achieving universal health coverage (UHC) become...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:34hrs | | by Johannes Marisa
All Zimbabwe qualified health professionals recruited
ALL qualified health professionals seeking employment in the public sector have been hired, giving that group a zero unemployment rate as the Health Services Board (HSB) acts to upgrade the public hea...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses strike takes new twist
HEALTH workers are up in arms with Health Apex council leaders whom they accuse of nicodemously cutting a deal with the government to end their weeklong strike.Nurses and other health workers ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Public Sector Unions express solidarity with Striking health workers
Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions and its affliates have expressed support and solidarity to the ongoing labour action by health worker...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 15:15hrs | 4 | by George Swarei
Doctors, nurses reveal Chiwenga's 14-month snub
Doctors, nurses and radiographers boycotted work on the first day of an indefinite strike over pay on Monday.The strike was mostly felt at the country's largest referral hospital – Par...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 15:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors, nurses endorse strike
SALARY talks between government and its restive workers ended in a deadlock yesterday ahead of a full-blown strike action by health professionals and teachers beginning Monday.It has emerged t...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health workers down tools
ZIMBABWE'S troubled health sector is headed for paralysis after doctors, radiographers, nurses and other specialists yesterday boycotted on-call and night duties citing incapacitation.This cam...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Renewed exodus of healthcare workers hits Zimbabwe
Earlier this year, Johnson Chegore, 33, resigned from his job as a nurse at a government hospital in the Zimbabwean capital Harare before he left for the UK.In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-larg...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army on health personnel recruitment drive
THE Zimbabwe National Army has embarked on a recruitment of health personnel in a move meant to further strengthen the defence forces medical team.In a Press statement, the ZNA said it is aimi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Are Zimbabwean doctors now too cowed to speak?
WE are truly apologetic for the chain of events that have taken place over the past few months and we hope that you will have a kind heart to allow the rest of the students to return to class and fini...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors were very foolish to bow to Chiwenga demands - without PPE, still susceptible covid-19 military or civilian
Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic crisis brought about by 40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The economy has all but collapsed forcing unemployment rate to soar to nauseating ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 22:51hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Proposed law to ban doctors, nurses from striking
ZIMBABWEAN doctors, nurses and other workers within the country's ailing health sector will nolonger be allowed to go on strike but shall only be permitted to stage demonstrations for some few hours b...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:42hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Winter of discontent for Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government faces a winter of discontent from restive public sector workers with teachers and health workers giving notice of imminent strikes.Mnangagwa's broke g...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:29hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Child with male, female genitals operated on
DOCTORS at Harare Central Hospital have successfully operated on a 10-year-old child from Tsholotsho who was born with both female and male sexual organs. The now "complete girl" (name withheld for et...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Honesty will pull Mnangagwa's govt out of mess
All along, the whole country had thought that the problems bedevilling the health services sector would remain confined to that sector alone.Everyone had hoped - against hope though - that the...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets blast striking civil servants
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has blasted civil servants for demanding to be paid in American dollars saying the public workers were ignorant of the challenges the...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe heads for shutdown
Government could be headed for a complete shutdown if it does not urgently address the concerns of its employees who are downing tools to press for better pay and improved working conditions, analysts...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Vanessa Gonye
Doctors end strike?
Striking public sector doctors have agreed to return to work with immediate effect after an agreement with Government on a plethora of grievances that had witnessed the health practitioners' stay away...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Doctors vow to continue their month-long industrial action
Striking junior doctors have vowed to continue with their month-long industrial action despite claims by government that the two sides have reached a consensus on the majority of their demands....Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 14:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'misled' on doctors' issue
Doctors yesterday came out guns blazing, telling Acting President Constantino Chiwenga that government did not spend a single cent in educating them.They said their parents, guardians and fami...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to discipliner striking health workers
STRIKING junior doctors and radiographers face disciplinary action after they ignored a court ruling that their job action was unlawful and were given a 12-hour ultimatum to report for duty, the Healt...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns striking doctors
THE Health Services Board (HSB) says it will take disciplinary action on the 553 striking doctors and radiographers after they disobeyed a 12-hour ultimatum to return to work, further straining negoti...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: 550 doctors suspended
The Health Services Board has suspended over 550 junior medical doctors and radiographers for defying Sunday's labour court order for them to go back to work within 12 hours.Last week Ca...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 14:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors, govt impasse far from over
It appears the impasse between the Health Services Board (HSB) and the striking 530 doctors and radiographers is still far from being settled.The HSB maintains it is going to take action again...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors' strike bites
Seventy-four-year-old Elliot Moyo is a bitter man. He was hit by a car and suffered a broken leg, among other serious injuries, early last week.Since then, he has been making several fruitless...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt, doctors talks deadlocked
THE strike by doctors at public hospitals, which started last weekend, is set to continue after a meeting between Health minister Obadiah Moyo and the doctors' representatives yesterday ended without ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe radiographers call for a nationwide strike
The crisis at Zimbabwe's public hospitals is worsening after radiographers at government hospitals on Wednesday joined the strike by junior and middle-level doctors by calling for a strike due to poor...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 19:59hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Hermaphrodite kid's op procedures start
TESTS in preparation for operation(s) for a 10- year-old from Tsholotsho who has both female and male sexual organs have kicked off. Well-wishers donated towards an initial $2 500 quote for an operati...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
First ever radiology centre opens in Zimbabwe
The first Diagnostic Radiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Centre has been commissioned in Harare and is expected to improve healthcare provision in Zimbabwe as well as save valuable foreign ...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 11:05hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Dr Dumisani Ndlovu opens state of the art radiology centre
The first Diagnostic Radiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Centre has been commissioned in Harare and is expected to improve healthcare provision in Zimbabwe as well as save valuable foreign ...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 19:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
42 selected for Mandela Washington Fellowship
EIGHT Bulawayo youths are among 42 young Zimbabweans selected for this year's Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders - the flagship programme of the Young African Leaders Initiative (...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo unveils 2 more X-ray, CT scan machines
MPILO Central Hospital yesterday commissioned two more X-ray and CT scan machines that had been lying idle for more than three years due to lack of working space.The hospital has been renovati...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cancer patients screening for free at Mpilo
PEOPLE from the southern part of the country can now be screened for breast cancer without charge at Mpilo Central Hospital as Government has commissioned a $500 000 mammography machine at the Bulaway...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Staff shortage cripples Mpilo Cancer unit operations
SHORTAGE of staff is crippling the smooth running of Mpilo Central Cancer Unit which was opened in April this year.The unit, which has since rolled out nuclear medicine, does not have the requ...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors, medical aid row rages on
Private doctors and other service providers have resolved to postpone the June 30 deadline for accepting medical aid cards only if the Government proceeds to revoke operating licences for all defaulti...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
CT scan, X-ray machines for Mpilo
MPILO Central Hospital has received X-ray, ultrasound and CT scan machines from the government to capacitate the referral hospital and improve access to basic medical equipment.The hospital, l...Published: 11 May 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
No more strikes, health workers told
The health sector is an essential service and its employees will not be allowed to strike as Government moves to implement provisions of the new Constitution, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David P...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 11:14hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Zimbabwe to resume kidney transplants
Zimbabwe is set to resume kidney transplants early next year after the first project was abandoned in 1992. The project - to be run by Chitungwiza Central Hospital - will save huge sums in foreign cur...Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 05:17hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Patients stranded as hospital's only radiographer dies
Scores of patients were left stranded at Masvingo General Hospital this week after the death of the health facilities' only radiographer Brighton Vaduma who drowned in a swimming pool at a local hotel...Published: 15 May 2015 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo's only radiographer dies
BULAWAYO's only government-employed radiographer, Edwin Mahala Ndlovu, who was based at Mpilo Central Hospital, has died, leaving only one such practitioner based in Harare.He was 73.N...Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda Residents Association finally shapes up
After years of numerous trial and errors Gwanda residents seem to have finally made up their minds to come up with a recognisable Residents Association.After several calls and failed initi...Published: 07 Dec 2013 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man slaughters his pregnant wife in cold blood
A BUSINESSMAN and IT specialist is accused of brutally slaughtering his pregnant wife in cold blood. The couple had been married for five years. The incident, which took place in Cosmo City, Joburg in...Published: 24 Jun 2012 at 19:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
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