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Sugar tax money to set up new cancer treatment centres
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) has approved expedited procedures to procure new cancer treatment machines, with the potential completion of the process before the end of 2024....Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:32hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to fast-track procurement of new cancer machines
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) has approved a fast-tracked process to procure new cancer treatment machines, raising hopes that they will be in place by year-end.The a...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:23hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Insiza District's Avoca Hospital set for upgrade
The government has announced plans to upgrade Avoca Rural Hospital in Insiza District, Matabeleland South, to improve healthcare service delivery. The upgrade will include constructing a new mortuary ...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 10:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo cancer, kidney patients stranded
Cancer and kidney patients in the Matabeleland region are facing dire circumstances due to malfunctioning critical treatment machines at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, as revealed by an investiga...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 06:59hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Free medical outreach in Matebeleland South
HUNDREDS of people in several villages in Matebeleland South benefitted from free medical outreach programmes being conducted in the province as part of the implementation of the Government's Health R...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Barbara Rwodzi quizzed over inconsistent statements
TOURISM and Hospitality Industry minister Barbara Rwodzi was last Friday quizzed over inconsistencies in the statements she made in a case in which her political rival, Patrick Cheza, and three other ...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe says man who sent out airport bomb warning on e-mail arrested
Zimbabwe's presidency on Monday confirmed the arrest of a 26-year-old South African man alleged to be the sender of an email which caused travel chaos last Friday, including forcing President Emmerson...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:34hrs | | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
How Mzila's family suffered during Gukurahundi genocide
IN 1982, I was assaulted by five Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniformed young men donning red berets at my Luveve house number 4136 where I lived, while I taught at St Bernards High School in Pumula, ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 119 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 9 | 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
CCC activists' trial further deferred
The trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Chirumanzu South official, Patrick Cheza, and four party activists accused of assaulting Tourism minister, Barbara Rwodzi, has been further postponed t...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Henrietta Rushwaya judge gets US$400,000 house on eve of sentencing
A judge set to deliver judgment in Henrietta Rushwaya's gold smuggling trial was given a house by the government last Friday, ZimLive can reveal.The transaction was approved by chief cabinet s...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:21hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
1 ambulance for Parirenyatwa
ZIMBABWE'S largest referral hospital, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, which services Harare and other nearby provinces, has been operating with only one functional ambulance, reflecting the country's...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 20:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe accused of blocking nurses from taking jobs abroad
Struggling to survive on her meagre salary, Zimbabwean nurse Jane decided to start a new life abroad but, one year after landing a job in Britain, she is still waiting to pack her bags.Jane is...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:59hrs | 11 | 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
Chiredzi violence points to Zanu-PF
MASVINGO Centre for Research Advocacy and development (Macrad) has released a chilling report of political violence allegedly orchestrated by suspected Zanu-PF activists in Chiredzi.In the rep...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kariba finally receives new X-ray machine
GOVERNMENT will commission a new X-ray machine at the Kariba District Hospital to replace the one which was destroyed in an inferno four years ago.Kariba hospital's incapacity to handle heavy ...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt hands over 8 mobile X-ray trucks
Eight X-ray trucks have been handed over to the eight non-metropolitan provinces, with development partners helping Government to ensure TB services are brought closer to the people in line with Presi...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's presidential envoy abuses his position
CHARISMATIC Zimbabwean evangelist and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special envoy on Trade and Investment, Uebert Angel, is embroiled in a money laundering scandal involving the abuse of diplomatic p...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 18:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Killer cop hit with another charge
MURDER suspect, Jaison Muvevi who made headlines last week after he shooting and killing three people, including a police officer in Wedza has been hit with another murder charge.Muvevi ...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:24hrs | | 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
Parirenyatwa's doctors on-call doctors sleep in cars
DOCTORS based at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have demanded a meeting over the deteriorating conditions at the hospital which they say are leading to patients dying from preventable illnesses....Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urged to probe corruption, abuses at hospitals
Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has been urged to investigate corruption and ill-treatment of patients at the country's hospitals.Raising a matter of national interest ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
UBH cancels 21 inflated tenders
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has cancelled 21 out of 34 tenders flighted this year to ensure that the Government is not fleeced, but gets value for money after some of the suppliers had highly ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt repairs X-ray machine 4 years on
GOVERNMENT has repaired an X-ray machine at Hurungwe District Hospital in Karoi town, which broke down four years ago forcing patients to seek services from private health institutions.Hurungw...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe health sector deepens
AUDITOR-GENERAL (AG) Mildred Chiri has exposed the rot in the country's health sector, where there is serious understaffing and shortages of equipment with no ambulances having been procured between 2...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans suffer horrific medical exclusion in SA
SOUTH Africa arguably boasts the highest standard of healthcare on the continent where everyone can access public healthcare. However, access to public facilities comes at a cost over around US$300 US...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya applies for discharge in gold smuggling case
THE State yesterday lined up two witnesses in a case where Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya is accused of trying to smuggle gold at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airpo...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport works Phase II commence
The US$153 million expansion of the terminal at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is at an advanced stage, with the construction almost complete and just awaiting final touch ups being condu...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe airport security screener 'stole US$2 million'
It was the perfect crime. Almost.Roselyn Dunga, a 31-year-old woman working as a security screener at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport was close to the end of her shift sometime...Published: 07 May 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tabitha Khumalo decries cancer treatment costs
FORMER Bulawayo East legislator Thabitha Khumalo has bemoaned the huge cost of cancer treatment in Zimbabwe, saying vulnerable people struggled to meet the costs.Khumalo, who suffers from brea...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
In Nkayi, pregnant women deliver in the dark
Lilian Mdlongwa, 19, a first-time mother from Manomano village, recalls how she almost lost her baby when she went into labour at Nkayi district hospital a month ago, when there was complete shutdown ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Kudakwashe Tagwirei, a champion of black empowerment
Business mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei remains a champion of black empowerment. I am an ardent follower Tagwirei's business ventures and empowerment initiatives. His Command Agriculture scheme has benefit...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:55hrs | 8 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
When the police officer is actually a thug
CRISES bring out the best or worst in people.Well, for Britain, the current fuel shortages have brought out the bad and nasty side of a people that we are told are supposedly more civilised th...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Man hospitalised after alleged ZRP brutality
A Masvingo ‘illegal' money changer was left ruing his actions to evade law enforcement agents after being hospitalized at Masvingo Provincial Hospital following an alleged attack by a Zimbabwe Repub...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA drug mule faints in Zimbabwean court
A drug smuggler fainted on Tuesday after she was jailed for 12 years by a Harare court.South African Shila Khumalo swallowed 60 balls of cocaine wrapped in plastic as she travelled from Brazil...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer runs Afghanistan's gemology plant
A ZIMBABWEAN engineer, Clever Sithole (CS), last year made history when he was appointed head gemologist at a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded gemstone processing proj...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Award winning poet drags Kazembe Kasembe, Matanga to court over police brutality
AWARD winning Victoria Falls based poet Obert Dube is suing Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, Police Commissioner General and five police officers who assaulted him for loitering in January...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Persistent moaning for COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver by Africa questions our intellectual capacity
Please allow me to start this discourse with a list of names - Max Theiler, Allan McLeod Comack, Aaron Klug, and Sydney Brenner.I am not sure if these names ring a bell for most of us, but the...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
X-ray machine disappears at hospital
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the theft of an X-ray machine at Mvurwi Hospital.The theft has riled residents in the farming town.Mazowe North Member of Parliament C...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF official condemns police
ZANU PF Mazowe District Coordinating Committee secretary for production Tichaona Chawana has labelled the police force as corrupt.Addre...Published: 28 May 2021 at 18:19hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Villagers injured in gold rush mayhem
HORDES of villagers and gold panners were injured when omakorokoza from various parts of the country went on a rampage at a gold mine along the Gwayi River, Nyamandlovu in Matabeleland North Province....Published: 12 May 2021 at 14:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Police stall investigation into 2018 crash involving Chief Justice Malaba's vehicle
Police have been accused of a cover-up over a December 2018 road traffic accident in which a cyclist was badly injured after being run-over by Chief Justice Luke Malaba's vehicle in Matopo, Matabelela...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 must not reverse gains in TB fight, says Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said COVID-19 mitigation measures must not reverse gains made by the country to end tuberculosis (TB).Speaking during commemor...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Life-saving medical equipment lying idle
AN X-RAY machine worth over US$25 000 has been lying idle for the past five years at Sadza District Hospital in Chikomba due to lack of a specialist to install it for use.The hospital, which i...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
X-Ray boost for Mater Dei COVID-19 response centre
MATER Dei Hospital in Bulawayo has received a major boost in its fight against COVID-19 after receiving an X-Ray image printer machine from a Harare-based engineering company, Flat Bridge Medical Supp...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Larry Mavima recovers from Covid-19
A dark cloud has been hovering over the country and Government as freedom fighters, ministers, captains of industry, revered academics and top Government officials have been losing the battle to Covid...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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