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China-aided hospital bears testimony to growing China-Zimbabwe ties
IN Zimbabwe, a China-aided hospital stands as a testament to the growing ties between the two countries.The Mahusekwa Hospital, also known as the China-Zimbabwe Friendship Hospital, was built ...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:28hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
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 | 141 | by Agencies
Top firm caught smuggling drugs into Zimbabwe
Authorities have seized drugs that were allegedly smuggled through the country's porous borders by one of the country's major medical service providers Baines Radiology Group (BIG).Highly plac...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo gets new dental, X-ray equipment
MPILO Central Hospital's Dental and X-ray departments have undergone a significant transformation with the installation of new state-of-the-art equipment.The upgrade enables the hospital to ef...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mother of three remains positive after four cancer operations
The 40-year-old mother of three who on Tuesday was one of the first three patients ever to be operated on in Zimbabwe by means of uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has had a long battle...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 11:29hrs | | by Agencies
Mnangagwa says there are no sacred cows for violence perpetrators
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said there are no sacred cows and perpetrators of violence will be arrested.Addressing thousands of party supporters at Robert Mugabe Square in the capit...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'bribes' for chiefs slammed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's move to extend free health care to chiefs a few months before major elections has been criticised as a vote-buying gimmick.Mnangagwa handed access ca...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PSMI faces collapse
EMBATTLED Premier Services Medical Investments (PSMI) shut down 120 of its 155 facilities last month as the entity battled to settle a four-month salary arrears bill in a turbulent period that culmina...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Dubai billionaire to invest in Zimbabwe’s health sector
THE visiting Dubai billionaire and businessperson, Nawab Shaji Ul Mulk has expressed interest in investing in Zimbabwe's health sector.With a keen interest in diagnostics and radiology, the Du...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 22:07hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Binga villagers cry foul over hospital
For specialist health services, villagers in Siabuwa, Binga North in Matabeleland North province are forced to travel 250km to St Luke's hospital in Lupane.And in extreme circumstances, they a...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 disrupts TB address progress
BULAWAYO, Midlands, Matabeleland North and South provinces accounted for most tuberculosis (TB) deaths recorded in Zimbabwe last year amid reports that Covid-19 disrupted progress that Zimbabwe had ma...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
4 Warriors still stuck in Cameroon
AT LEAST four members of the Warriors are still stuck in Cameroon where they had travelled for the 2021 African Nations Championship (Chan) finals.Although the team was eliminated from the tou...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
More confusion about Cosafa disqualification
A CONFEDERATION of African Football (Caf ) official says being disqualified from the Cosafa Under-17 competition does not imply age-cheating, creating more confusion about Zimbabwe's disqualification....Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 Chinese specialist doctors arrive
A 10-member Chinese team of specialist doctors has arrived in the country and will be stationed at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals for the next 12 months. The doctors will be assisting their c...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
China sends doctors to Zimbabwe
TEN Chinese medical specialists arrived in Harare yesterday to offer medical support in the public health sector under a bilateral arrangement with the Government. Members of the group special...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's spooks boss bashed to death: Post-mortem
SLAIN central intelligence operative Peter Munetsi was not on medication as claimed by the government, but was beaten to death by his captors during the November 2017 military coup that toppled presid...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa pleased with Health Minister's visit to Norton
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has hailed Minister of Health and Child care Obadiah Moyo for visiting the constituency to assess the area as the cholera hit parts of Harare.In a letter t...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mpilo fails to cope, maternity patients sleep on the floor
MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo is failing to cope with the high number of maternity patients resulting in some of the expecting and new mothers sleeping on the floor, a situation described as depl...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:32hrs | | 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 | 5 | 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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Medical aid firm targets informal sector
FAST-growing Gweru-based medical aid company, Zimbabwe General Medical Aid Fund (ZG Medical) has begun tapping into the country's vast jobless market, which is usually neglected by most insurance and ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | 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
UZ launches BSc Optometry Honours degree
The University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences on Friday launched the country's first Bachelor of Science Optometry (Honours) degree programme in a ceremony at the college in Harare.Off...Published: 23 May 2018 at 15:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 foreign investors contracted to operate Ekusileni Hospital
TWO foreign investors have made the final list of companies that will be contracted to open and operate Ekusileni Hospital in Bulawayo.Ekusileni was built in 2001.It was a specialist h...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health levy tops US$18 million
More than US$18 million has been raised through the National Health Levy, with much of the money earmarked for surgical drugs, blood and vaccine procurement.The levy – which takes US$0,05 of...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'it's disheartening that govt is prioritising recruitment of Doctors and Nurses only'
Hie News Desk Am a concerned citizen in Zimbabwe. I have been following proceedings in happening in the civil service especially the Health sector. Its more like disheartening that our...Published: 06 May 2017 at 08:12hrs | | by Concerned citizen
PSMI workers strike cripples services
Normal services are yet to resume at Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI)'s businesses following a demonstration by some aggrieved employees over unpaid salary arrears last Friday. A...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man gets SA Visa after Tweeting Home Affairs Minister
Durban - The thought of kissing his wife and two children goodbye as the expiry date of his temporary spousal visa drew nearer had been replaying in Forbes Maupa's mind over and over.Maupa, a ...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cimas launches low cost private hospital medical aid package
Cimas Medical Aid Society has launched a new low cost private hospital medical aid package, the Classic Private Hospital package that gives members access to private healthcare at a lower cost than it...Published: 19 May 2016 at 22:35hrs | | by Business Reporter
Two new state of the art hospitals for Bulawayo
Bulawayo will soon have two state of the art hospitals, after two medical practitioners were offered land by the City Council to construct health centres, ...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza residents express hospital privatisation fears
Chitungwiza Central Hospital management last Thursday met representatives of the Chitungwiza Residents' Trust (Chitrest) and assured them that the privatisation of some of the hospital's critical ...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital looking for $16m
Mpilo Central Hospital seeks $16 million to refurbish the institution's infrastructure, plant and purchase of crucial medical equipment.Mpilo chief executive officer Dr Lawrence Mantiziba las...Published: 11 Aug 2014 at 07:26hrs | | by Farai Kuvirimirwa
Mugabe aide named in PSMAS looting
Presidential spokesman George Charamba has been sucked into the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) benefits saga amid revelations that he sat on the beleaguered medical funder's main board...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Swiss lab to analyse Yasser Arafat remains
Geneva - A Swiss radiology lab said on Friday it has received the go-ahead from the widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to test his remains for poisoning by polonium, a highly radioactive e...Published: 25 Aug 2012 at 04:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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