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Zimbabwe achieves milestone in training surgeons
Zimbabwe's health sector, long plagued by resource shortages and brain drain, has marked a significant achievement with a rise in the number of orthopaedic and paediatric surgeons, largely attributed ...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 06:53hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds get free medical treatment courtesy of Chiwenga's wife
HUNDREDS of people from Filabusi in Insiza District have gathered at Avoca Clinic to take advantage of free medical services provided under a health outreach programme spearheaded by the family of Vic...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 12:52hrs | 525 | 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 | 1 | by Agencies
Zimbabwean cardiothoracic surgeons make major medical breakthrough
Three Zimbabwean cardiothoracic surgeons on Tuesday teamed up with a colleague from Spain and successfully carried out an extensive uniportal video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), the first of its k...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poised for major medical breakthrough
ZIMBABWE is earmarked for another major medical breakthrough as it is set to conduct a minimally invasive thoracic surgery today.The development is the first of its kind in the country and foc...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:38hrs | | 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
Mpilo Central Hospital secures MRI scan
The government has procured advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines for Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare. This development is expected to low...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 12:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man comes back from the brink after open heart surgery in India
WHEN Mr Wilberforce Matashu (46) of Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo arrived in India early this year for open heart surgery, which saw him implanted with artificial heart valves to assist the aorta, he h...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA doctor nails Chiwenga's ex-wife in court
The fifth witness in the trial of Marry Mubaiwa on charges of attempting to kill her ex-husband, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, by unplugging his life support system in a South African hospital,...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Air ambulance to the rescue
A 54-year-old road traffic accident victim was airlifted from Bindura to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare by a four-member team of Russian and Zimbabwean paramedics, as the medical air rescue...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Two open-heart surgeries at Parirenyatwa
A LOCAL team of doctors recently conducted two successful open-heart surgeries at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, marking the resumption of the complex medical procedure that was last done in 2018....Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:37hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Doctor extorts US$350 from accident victim
A Chitungwiza Central Hospital medical doctor is facing disciplinary charges on allegations of attempting to extort US$350 from a parent of a girl who was one of the learners injured in a road traffic...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo hospital needs US$80 000 to repair radio therapy machines
ABOUT US$80 000 is needed to repair radio therapy machines at Mpilo Central Hospital at a time when Government is the process of coming up with measures which will solve the problem of non-functional ...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 11 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Plastic surgery hospital for Bulawayo
A 40-BED children's ward at CURE Children`s Hospital of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo has started taking shape with the project set for completion within the next three months while the health facility will st...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 13 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Nurse left with tubing in body after brain surgery at London hospital; problem only discovered years later in Zimbabwe
A man has said he was left in agony after plastic tubing was left in his body after undergoing brain surgery.Kennedy Mugovera, 51, from Swindon, had the procedure at the University College Lon...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Massive expansion for Mater Dei
THE Catholic Church-run Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo has embarked on a massive expansion drive that will transform the institution from an old elitist hospital into a walk-in primary healthcare cent...Published: 04 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tafadzwa Mandiwanza: Ireland's first female paediatric neurosurgeon
Tafadzwa Mandiwanza says that growing up in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, she always wanted to be a doctor.Having just been appointed as the first female paediatric neurosurgeon in Ire...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa Hospital in negligence storm
THE mother of a four-year-old girl who died from severe burns while admitted at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare has alleged that staff at the health institution neglected attending to her ch...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo doctor makes historic return home
AN opportunity to study and work abroad, is one that is never missed or compromised as "pastures" are considered greener out there, but for an ex-Milton High School pupil, returning home was on top of...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 specialist hospitals boost
GOVERNMENT is in the process of establishing specialist medical schools at four State universities, with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) already recruiting critical staff to t...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Top war hero sends SOS
VETERAN freedom fighter and former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) deputy chief of personnel and training, Jack Mpofu is appealing for US$2 300 to enable him to undergo a hip replace...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to officially open country's first free orthopaedic hospital in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today set to officially open the country's first free orthopaedic hospital, Cure Children's Hospital and a Covid-19 designated treatment and isolation centre at the United Bulaw...Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:07hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Health facilities upgrade accelerated
Upgrading health and sanitation in Zimbabwe is being accelerated with the latest three developments being an agreement to install solar energy systems at 640 health facilities, create public-private p...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gets new free hospital for children
WHEN Sean was involved in a car accident on his way home from writing final Grade Seven Examinations sometime in December last year, all hope was lost as doctors confirmed he may never walk without cr...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean surgeons to help in other countries
Zimbabwean surgeons have been authorised to help separate conjoined twins from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon following international endorsements of the country's processes. The appeal from t...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
No vaccination certificate, no drink at the pub
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested this week that some pubs might require customers to produce vaccine certificates, an idea that he had previously deemed unlikely. Almost 29 milli...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
What's going on with Zimbabwe soccer?
COVID might still be affecting the good people of Zimbabwe, but things are finally starting to get back to normal. With soccer now back in full swing, there are a lot of exciting things going on. In f...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:35hrs | 7 | by Staff writer
Prince Dube set for surgery today
ZIMBABWE international forward Prince Dube, who suffered a left-arm fracture during a league game, is set to undergo surgery in South Africa today. The Tanzania-based forward was flown to Sout...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga on the mend'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga was recovering in South Africa after being airlifted there for urgent treatment due to a persistent illness that has dogged him fo...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top cops, ZPCS, doctors face jail
Heads of hospitals, police stations and prisons will be jailed a mandatory five years if found guilty of destroying or tampering with vital evidence that incriminates in the death of people under thei...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo doctor 'steals' drugs
A DOCTOR at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo has appeared in court for allegedly stealing drugs worth $110 from the hospital theatre while on duty. Emmanuel Mucheni (33) yesterday appeared b...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
US, Canada surgeons honour Mtukudzi
THE late music icon and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi continues to be honoured, with the United States and Canadian volunteer surgical team under the banner Operation of Hope dedicating its upc...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
'Zimbabwe hospital nurses washing bandages to re-use on patients'
NURSES at Zimbabwe"s foremost medical institution, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, have resorted to washing bandages to dress burns on patients as health crisis at the institution deepens, plastic su...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Ekusileni Medical Centre staff recruitment begins
Sharda Group of Institutions (SGI), an Indian investor identified by the Government to open Ekusileni Medical Centre, has started recruiting staff in preparation for the re-opening of the hospital. ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves to set up super-specialist hospital
Government is setting up a super-specialist hospital at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in order for patients in need of specialist services to get treatment in the country, hence cutting high costs o...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 52 | by Staff reporter
Medical practitioners propose steep US$ charges
Zimbabweans should brace for new tariffs from the medical practitioners after a leaked document showed proposed charges pegged in United States dollars.The document, which was widely circulate...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean doctors killed over a thousand people in one month of December?
My father once told me that a man who does not sleep at home will never buy a bed for his home. This might just be true when applied to politicians on the continent seeking medical help anywhere but h...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
August 1 gunshot victims speak out
Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights have compiled a report of August 21 killings that left 6 people dead during the election season. Several high profile people including the Generals of ...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 15:44hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
US orthopaedic surgeons jet in
A group of nine medical experts based at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Centre in the USAm is in the country to offer free knee surgical operations at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Har...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 18:28hrs | 133 | by Staf reporter
South African women spending up to R100K to make their bums bigger
The rise of social media - and Kim Kardashian - has led to a surge in South African women getting so-called "Brazilian butt lifts", says doctor Dirk Lazarus, a plastic surgeon in Cape Town. Th...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by businessinsider
Wounded soldier gets world's first penis transplant
A soldier wounded by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan has received the world's first complete penis and scrotum transplant, officials at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore said on Monday...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 18:28hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Free cataract ops to benefit over 200 people
MORE than 200 people are this week expected to benefit from free cataract operations and other eye treatments in Nyanga, courtesy of the Council for the Blind and Nyanga Is Supa Foundation.Ove...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai speaks on battle with cancer
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai has lost his hair in his latest battle with cancer, telling the Daily News in an exclusive interview on Monday that he feels like he is almost close to regaining full...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joseph Made approves $300m Command Livestock
Cabinet has approved the $300 million Special Programme on Livestock Production that is expected to run for between three and five years.Livestock farmers from all sectors - communal to A2 and...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free plastic surgery at Mpilo Hospital
BULAWAYO residents will this week benefit from free plastic surgeries that are being performed at Mpilo Central Hospital for the first time.Speaking during a ward tour before the operations we...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free cleft lip palate ops start at Mpilo
MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo will conduct free correctional surgery on people afflicted with cleft lip starting tomorrow.The operations, conducted by surgeons from the United States of A...Published: 05 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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