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Machakaire exposes the detachment of Zimbabwe's ruling elite from ordinary citizens' suffering
The surprises keep coming!It is not often that we hear a sitting Zimbabwean Cabinet minister openly acknowledge the painful reality faced daily by millions of citizens. That is why Min...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:18hrs | 581 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF succession battles open window of opportunity for Matabeleland breakaway
Zimbabwe Independence Day Celebrations on 18 April 2025 marked 132 years of Matabeleland oppression. Firstly by the British South Africa Company, 1893- 1980, under the rule by coquest, secondly by the...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 1333 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe hospitals now death traps, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa has said reviving the country's deteriorating health system is one of his top priorities once elected into power during the Augu...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals get air ambulance training
Officials from the Ministry of Health and Child Care yesterday, begun receiving user training for the 12 air ambulances that Government bought from Russia ahead of their deployment and distribution am...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ABSA, Standard Bank agree US$193m funding deal to build new Zimbabwe hospitals
Zimbabwe is to raise US$193 million in offshore lending to implement a 2019 agreement with UK infrastructure company NMS for the construction of hospitals and clinics in the country.ABSA and S...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 20:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why does ZANU PF become so bitterly angry with those desiring Zimbabwe to succeed?
It is always perplexing!Why would I be offended by those who want me to do better - pushing me to attain phenomenal heights reached by other legendary writers - and, in so doing, identifying w...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 07:44hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe hospitals to get modern equipment
Modern hospital equipment and machinery will be procured by the Government to replace old and obsolete items to ensure patients access quality services, Vice President and Health and Child Care Minist...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Well done Phophi Rhamathuba for calling a spade a spade!
It is surprising that the most cruel, genocidal, segregative and oppressive government in Southern Africa, has come out guns blazing in attack of the Limpopo MEC, Phophi Ramathuba for exposing t...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 21:36hrs | 4 | by Israel Dube
Power cuts hit Zimbabwe hospitals
BULAWAYO provincial medical director Marphios Siamuchembu has pleaded with the power utility to spare city hospitals in its load shedding regime running for several hours.Siamuchembu said oper...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals overwhelmed
MEDICAL practitioners have urged government to consider establishing makeshift health centres for COVID-19 admissions as the country's health institutions are inundated with severe cases needing hospi...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19
GOVERNMENT hospitals across the country are overwhelmed by the high number of Covid-19 patients seeking admission and treatment, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.Speaking at the...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals choke under new COVID-19 admissions
HEALTH officials and police have scaled up surveillance to curb the further spread of COVID-19 infections following a spike in hospital admissions while isolation centres are said to be fast filling u...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals run out of oxygen
MEDICAL practitioners have called on government to urgently intervene and put measures in place to ensure adequate supply of oxygen as most health institutions in the country are constantly running ou...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals buckle under Covid-19 strain
Hospitals in Zimbabwe are reeling from a renewed surge in the coronavirus, with a shortage of beds and equipment threatening to overwhelm the public health system.The Health Ministry on Tuesda...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zim hospitals overwhelmed by covid 19' - overwhelmed by 225 patients or official figures are fake
Let me say this for the umpteenth time: Zimbabwe's official corona virus cases and deaths is but a fraction of the real and true figures. Officially Zimbabwe has 13 867 cumulated cases of whic...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 10:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe hospitals overwhelmed and overrun by Covid-19 virus
Government spokesman Nick Mangwana has revealed that Zimbabwean hospitals are being overwhelmed and overrun by the Covid-19 virus.Mangwana revealed this on the microblogging site Twitter....Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mayhem in Zimbabwe hospitals as doctors down tools
Doctors at public hospitals have turned down a 60% salary rise offered by government and vowed to go ahead with their planned industrial action starting today to press for a better offer and an improv...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Situation in Zimbabwe hospitals a damning indictment on government
A signature characteristic of former President Robert Mugabe (pictured)'s administration was silence in the face of crippling crises. Zimbabweans, at the height of Mugabe's rule, had become resigned t...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Learnmore Zuze
Shocking rot at Zimbabwe hospitals
PATIENTS are spending several days waiting for treatment at the country's poorly resourced public hospitals and many are dying prematurely due to lack of drugs, an investigation has revealed.A...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
If 'Trump is just a phone call away'
. . . what does this tell us about Chamisa? A few days ago while addressing his supporters on International Women's Day, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Cha...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 22:48hrs | 2 | by Prosperity Mzila
Threats and blackmail: The real story behind the doctors' return to wards
They stood their ground against government threats, but it took coercion from one of their own to end the junior doctors' 40-day strike.At one time they were fired by Vice-President Constantin...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | 1 | by Everson Mushava
Zimbabwe doctors 'arm-twisted' to suspend strike
JUNIOR doctors at public hospitals yesterday ended their 40-day long strike after some consultant doctors allegedly threatened to cause them to fail their internship.The Zimbabwe Hospitals Doc...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike legal, says court
The Labour Court ruled on Friday that the ongoing strike by doctors was legal.The Court threw out an application in which the Health Services board (HSB) sought to have the strike deemed illeg...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 20:50hrs | 1 | 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
'Chiwenga must go back to Zimbabwe hospitals,' says Malema
Social media reports that Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) President, Julias Malema has challenged Zimbabwe government officials including Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and Foreign Affairs Minist...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 21:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Patients' relatives join doctors' protest
Public hospitals doctors yesterday staged another strike at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (PGH), which was joined by patients' relatives, upholding their demands for better remuneration, among other...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 10:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hippocratic Oath versus currency that pays the bills
ACCORDING to online journals, the Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physi...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Limukani Ncube
24 babies born at Mpilo daily despite doctors' strike
DESPITE the strike by doctors, Mpilo Central Hospital maternity unit continued to provide quality service with an average of 24 babies delivered on a daily basis.In an interview last week, the...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Defiant doctors want govt to commit in writing
Striking doctors have refused to return to work despite the intervention by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, insisting government must first put its promises in writing.Mxolisi Ngwenya, sp...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:27hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga increases doctors' salaries from $1.50 to $5.00 per hour
THE Zimbabwe Hospitals Doctors' Association (ZHDA) and the Government have reached an agreement on the salary negotiations.The agreement was reached after a meeting was held on Wednesday betwe...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa testifies in US tax fraud case
War veterans leader, Chris Mutsvangwa, testified over the phone in a United States tax fraud case - which had sucked in Zimbabwean senior government officials - resulting in the conviction of former C...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 11:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Unqualified staff man Zimbabwe hospitals
Zimbabwe's health institutions are being manned by unqualified staff as a result of a recruitment freeze imposed by government, Parliament has been told.Health ministry secretary Gerald Gwinji...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals hit by massive drug shortages
The country's health delivery system is under severe strain with major government hospitals facing a critical shortage of drugs.In Bulawayo, the situation is dire as Mpilo Central Hospital...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'RBZ to raise civil servants bonus cash'
CIVIL servants have once again been assured that they will be paid their 2015 bonuses.The assurance was made at a consultative meeting between the Apex Council and the Reserve Bank Governor Jo...Published: 01 Jan 2016 at 11:37hrs | | by Pamela Shumba and Felex Share
Drug shortages hit Zimbabwe hospitals
Zimbabwe's health delivery system has been compromised with revelations that district and provincial hospitals are failing to dispense basic drugs.The country's 62 district hospitals, 8 pr...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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