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Chinese medical teams show fruits of cooperation
Zimbabwe has been a beneficiary of Chinese health assistance under this framework.Recently, China and Zimbabwe marked the 60th anniversary of China medical teams at a colorful ceremony at the ...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:56hrs | 153 | by Elma Zhoya
Zimbabwe, Africa benefit from China's Health Silk Road
LAST week, China announced that it will give Zimbabwe 10 million doses of Covid-19, as part of the 1 billion doses pledged by Beijing to African countries at last year's Forum on China-Africa Co-opera...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | 156 | by Albert Chavhunduka
MDC Alliance accepts failure, welcomes Govt support
President Mnangagwa's administration has been thanked by the opposition-controlled Harare City Council for assisting in infrastructural development, from renovation of the critical health facilities t...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
QR-coded Covid-19 vaccination verification system needed now
NOW that it is business as usual, following the announcement that bars and nightclubs will be open and allowing only vaccinated individuals to attend these premises, worldwide Covid-19 is here to stay...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:03hrs | 19 | by Jacob Mutisi
Shameless, unpatriotic citizens sell out Zimbabwe in UK
AS President Mnangagwa prepares to visit the United Kingdom in a trip which will see him gracing the Kingdom of Scotland, Zimbabweans are in high morale hoping to see their leader as he lifts the nati...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 221 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The fight against COVID-19 is everyone's responsibility
The first Saturday of this month saw local author, film maker and anti-Government activist, Tsitsi Dangarembwa, getting her first COVID-19 vaccination jab at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. She did n...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 13:35hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
No plans for fresh lockdown
THERE are no plans to reintroduce a fresh hard national lockdown to forestall the threat of a Covid-19 third wave and Government will focus on fine-tuning the national vaccination programme to hasten ...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt increases Covid-19 vaccination sites
THE Government has introduced more Covid-19 vaccination sites across the country as part of efforts to decentralise the process and decongest existing service points. Wilkins Hospital, which h...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:49hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
'Incapacitated' teachers stage sit-in demo
TEACHERS at various schools countrywide are reportedly reporting for duty only to mark the pupils' attendance registers, but are not conducting lessons as they continue piling pressure for better work...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:56hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination roll-out moves gear up
President Mnangagwa is today expected to launch the second stage of the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the scenic city of Victoria Falls. The President is expected to tak...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga receives his second jab
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga this morning received his second shot of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine.The VP received his vaccine at Wilkins Hospital in Harare where he urged Zimbabweans...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 17:38hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Tribute to Morgan Nemadire the regional magistrate and a friend
On the 6th March 2021 one of the brightest lights in the Zimbabwean legal fraternity, MR Morgen Nemadire was switched off.But the sun has not set on the Nemadire's alone, Zimbabweans also mourn th...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 14:31hrs | 21 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Trials before vaccination, demands Rights lawyers
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) wants government to conduct clinical trials of the Sinopharm vaccine and other Covid-19 drugs before administering the jabs on the population.Howev...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare as Covid-19 hits Harare school
A Harare school recorded 37 Covid-19 cases days before the end of the third term on Friday, sparking a standoff between parents and Health and Child Care ministry officials over the handling of the ma...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa suspends hospital visits
PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals has suspended all hospital visits with effect from today (December 9) as COVID-19 positive cases continue to soar."Please be advised that we have suspended all ...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 16:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic named Bank of The Year 2020
HARARE - 3 December 2020 - Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has been awarded the 2020 Bank of the Year 2020 accolade for the second year running by top banking magazine - The Banke...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 09:04hrs | 8 | by Agencies
No Covid deaths in Zimbabwe for a week
ZIMBABWE has gone for seven consecutive days without recording any Covid-19 deaths amid reports that 35 new cases were recorded on Thursday. Statistics from the Ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Chigwedere seeks son's incarceration
Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has approached the High Court, seeking a 30-day jail term against his son, Mangwiza, in order to compel him to undergo paternity tests as the witchcraft sag...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1958 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid 'hits' Harare
RESIDENTS of Harare's Hopley, Mbare and Epworth high-density suburbs were on the edge yesterday amid reports of a fresh typhoid outbreak since Saturday. Sources in the health sector said most ...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1417 | by Staff reporter
Hookers urged to take up new HIV prevention method
THE government has urged sex workers to quickly report to medical institutions to be initiated onto the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) programme to ascertain if there is a possibility of exposure to ...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 08:10hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Community service for laptop thief
A HARARE woman, who stole her boss' laptop, will perform 105 hours of community service as a punishment.Louise Williams, 30, had initially been slapped with a six months jail term before t...Published: 16 Feb 2015 at 08:06hrs | 2274 | by Munyaradzi Doma
Nurses run away from 'Ebola' patient
THERE are loopholes in the Zimbabwe's Ebola prevention mechanisms, Deputy Health and Child Care minister, Paul Chimedza has admitted but added that the government is working on plugging them.S...Published: 19 Oct 2014 at 10:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Suspected 'Ebola student' discharged
The Zimbabwe government has instructed Wilkins Hospital to discharge the suspected Ebola patient after testing negative for the deadly virus that has killed thousands in West Africa.There ...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 20:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Ebola scare update
The Congolese student, who was suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus, but tested negative after clinical tests, is responding well to malaria treatment.The news crew sought to fin...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 19:19hrs | 3762 | by Staff reporter
Suspected Ebola patient admitted at Wilkins Hospital in Harare
Wilkins Hospital in Harare was on Thursday closed amid reports that a suspected Ebola patient from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had been quarantined at the medical facility.But Heal...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ebola centre in Harare
50 wards have been set aside at the Wilkins Hospital, Harare, in case Ebola is confirmed in the country.The Harare City Health Department took journalists from various media houses on a tour ...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
DNA testing at hospitals
Government health institutions are going into partnership with the African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (AIBST) in the setting up of DNA testing centres.The public private pa...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 17:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Are we geared to prevent Ebola from invading Zimbabwe?
...as the Ebola vector spreads like veld fire in West Africa As the war against diseases across the globe rages on, human kind seem to be losing th...Published: 14 Aug 2014 at 14:43hrs | | by Vegetables Chigumira
Deliberate transmission of HIV hard to prove
CASES of deliberate transmission of HIV are difficult to prove because there is no law that compels testing institutions to reveal or make public the HIV status of patients, a regional magistrate said...Published: 11 Jul 2012 at 17:34hrs | 1716 | by Court Reporter
Harare hit by a new wave of Typhoid
OVER 600 Harare residents, among them a hotel worker, have been diagnosed of typhoid while 90 of them were admitted at the Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospitals for treatment. This has heightened fea...Published: 24 Jan 2012 at 04:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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