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Cosmetic surgery on the rise in Zimbabwe
Once perceived as a luxury reserved for the wealthy elite, cosmetic surgery is steadily gaining ground in Zimbabwe—evolving from a pursuit of aesthetic enhancement into a broader path toward physica...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 12:37hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean medical doctor convicted of cyberbullying
Specialist neurologist Lennon Tonderai Gwaunza has been convicted of contravening the Data Protection Act after being found guilty of falsely claiming that another neurologist, Dr. Andrew Mataruse, wa...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 20:06hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Health Service Commission
The new Health Service Commission, which assumes full control of the staff in the State health services, has become active with the appointment of Civil Service Commission chair Dr Vincent Hungwe as c...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Harare doctor in court for blackmailing colleague
A SPECIALIST neurologist was on Wednesday brought before a Harare magistrate charged with contravening provisions of the Data Protection Act after he was accused of blackmailing a colleague, Andrew Ma...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 17:41hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Doctor in court for blackmailing a colleague
A SPECIALIST neurologist was on Wednesday brought before a Harare magistrate charged with contravening provisions of the Data Protection Act after he was accused of blackmailing a colleague, Andrew Ma...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
51 Zimbabwe parastatals fail to submit financials
A total of fifty-one state-owned enterprises have failed to submit their financial statements for auditing to the Auditor-General, as required by law.The Acting Auditor-General, Mrs. Rhea Kuji...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:40hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are going abroad because medical and dental practitioners are not
Following the good news of the open heart surgery milestones on 27 September 2023. This is a remarkable advancement which the majority of Zimbabweans are not aware of. In pre-pandemic times, pow...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 11:51hrs | | by Engineer Jacob kudzayi Mutisi
Desperate shortage of places at Zimbabwe medical schools reported
ONLY 1% of students seeking to be enrolled in Zimbabwe's medical schools get placed due to an acute shortage of training facilities, resulting in limited access to such training programmes.Get...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dodgy foreign universities cost Zimbabwean students
SOME Zimbabwean students are losing a lot of money studying at foreign universities but their professional qualifications are not recognised locally due to the quality of their degree programmes....Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nust medicine enrolment increases
Destiny Mlilo started his life-long ambition of being a medical doctor on Tuesday as part of 60 first-year School of Medicine students at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bu...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Health financing tops doctors' indaba
PRIVATE medical practitioners drawn from across the country will this weekend meet in Mutare for their annual conference to discuss health financing, and the possibility of a fifth wave of the COVID-1...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nust makes top appointment
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has appointed experienced medical doctor, Professor Elopy Sibanda as the institution's executive dean in the Faculty of Medicine. Prof ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Medical practitioners trained outside Zimbabwe told to register
Medical and dental practitioners training outside the country have been encouraged to register for training in Zimbabwe for them to familiarise with the local system before they can practise. ...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Arrest warrant issued for 'unlicensed' medical doctor
A MEDICAL doctor from Bulawayo arrested for allegedly practising without a valid licence from the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe has absconded court. The court has since issued a...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga backs down on junior doctors
A MAJORITY of junior doctors have declined to be conscripted into the army and will now be deployed to public hospitals, it has emerged. Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Medical doctor in court for practicing with expired licence.
A MEDICAL doctor from Bulawayo was arrested for allegedly practicing without a valid licence from Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe.Emmanuel Mucheni (36) of New Parklands su...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 15:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Stop using veterinary drug for COVID-19 treatment'
THE Zimbabwe College of Public Health Physicians (ZCPHP) yesterday added its voice in calling for the total ban of controversial prescriptions and use of the veterinary drug, Ivermectin, which is repo...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warns over rogue Covid-19 medical doctor
THE Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) on Friday warned over the illegal practice of one Jacqueline Carey Stone, who is allegedly treating COVID-19 patients using unregistere...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Drugs-theft Bulawayo doctor arrested for practising without a licence
A medical doctor who was suspended for stealing drugs at Mpilo Central Hospital has been arrested for practising without a licence at a city clinic.Emmanuel Mucheni, 35, was arrested last Frid...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Striking nurses face loss of permanent status
Nurses in the public sector are to be held to high professional standards with those who strike likely to be moved from the permanent staff and having to reapply for fixed term contracts should they w...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe faces $500 000 lawsuit over bungled abortion
A HARARE woman is claiming $500 000 damages from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe in respect of non patrimonial loss suffered as a result of failure by the police to carry out their constitutiona...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to block doctors' migration
SENIOR doctors have slammed the Health ministry for trampling on the Health Professions Act by throwing thorns into their path to stop them from looking for green er pastures.This follows an a...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's vindictiveness will cripple health sector
GOVERNMENT'S decision to impose stiff measures on doctors intending to leave the country in pursuit of the proverbial greener pastures is quite unfortunate as it seems designed to punish health profes...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga cracks whip
GOVERNMENT has set tough measures for doctors intending to leave the country and also ordered the closure of three programmes at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)'s medical school in a move viewed as pu...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Student doctors in Diaspora to register in Zimbabwe
The Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) has urged those studying medicine and dentistry abroad to register with the MDPCZ such that they can undertake internship in Zimbabwe....Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Doctors in Zimbabwe train for seven years
Doctors in Zimbabwe train for seven years, including the two years of internship also known as housemanship, hence those calling themselves junior doctors are in fact, still students, the Zimbabwe Cou...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 23:59hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' hearings clarified
Disciplinary hearings for junior doctors who participated in the month-long illegal industrial action will proceed as scheduled and be conducted in a fair and transparent manner, the Ministry of Healt...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-Health minister to compensate patient
FORMER Health deputy minister, Edwin Muguti, has been ordered to pay R252 546 and $28 000 compensation to one of his patients, Patricia Singizi, following a botched medical procedure which resulted in...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Negligence costs Parirenyatwa Hospital $27 000
NEGLIGENCE by doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals which resulted in a patient suffering a bile leak has proved costly after the High Court ordered the public institution to pay damages amountin...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctor ordered to pay $20 000 damages over negligence
A Mutare farmer who lost his wife due to medical negligence has been awarded $20 000 in damages after an eight-year legal battle. The High Court last week ordered Dr Miriam Kanyenze to p...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's first 50 days: Zimbabwe sinks deeper into abyss
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week completed 50 days in office, but in that short stint, the negatives have so far outweighed the positives amid indications he faces a herculean task in his bid to...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Moyo is Mnangagwa's new acid test
Back in the days, every old, frail and ugly country woman was believed to be a witch. It didn't matter if, indeed, she was. Her looks and age naturally turned her into that ogre that drank our blood a...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe health minister a medical impostor
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is neither a qualified medical doctor nor a fellow of various international elite societies as stated on his curriculum vitae posted by Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH),...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Health Minister labelled academic fraud
Zimbabwe's new Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo, is an academic fraud who does not have the qualification he claims to possess, according to the United States embassy.Moyo, who lost to the MDC Al...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Negligent doctor suspended, undergoes retraining
A BULAWAYO doctor found guilty of negligently causing the death of a new born baby has been placed on suspension and is undergoing retraining after being stopped from practising obstetrics and gynaeco...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 05:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Doctor ordered to pay $8,000 for baby death
A BULAWAYO medical doctor, sued for negligently causing the death of a newborn baby, has been ordered to pay the deceased's family $8 000.According to court papers, the newborn baby suffered c...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sekeramayi shames Mutsvangwa
The Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) has confirmed that Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi has undergone specialist medical training and has qualifications from Sweden that...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doctors probed over patients' deaths
Some medical practitioners in the country are being investigated for negligence and unprofessional conduct after 10 patients died under their varied care. Two other doctors have since been suspended f...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt bows down to doctors demands
Hardly 48 hours after awarding junior doctors increased on-call allowances, posts and car loans following a two-week strike, Government has bowed down to the medical practitioners' demands yet aga...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors to pay for time lost in strike
JUNIOR doctors who resumed duty after a two-week strike are set to compensate for the lost time.Normalcy returned to public health institutions on Monday after junior doctors and nurses re...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another doctors, government standoff looms
Government has come hard on junior doctors who went on strike for the past two weeks ordering them to re-do their rotations for three months before they proceed to the next level....Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Doctors, medical aid row rages on
Private doctors and other service providers have resolved to postpone the June 30 deadline for accepting medical aid cards only if the Government proceeds to revoke operating licences for all defaulti...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Zimbabwe junior doctors refuse to sign govt contracts
Junior doctors have refused to sign a government contract of employment which they claim violate women's rights and fair labour practice.The doctors petitioned Health Services Board (HSB) chai...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors to engage Cabinet over illegal contracts and health services board utterances
After a week of nationwide consultations with its members, the ZHDA members unanimously rejected the ill advised and poorly drafted contract for junior doctors proposed by the Health Services Board. ...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 08:23hrs | | by Dr FN Nyamande
'Telephone health services are illegal, unprofessional and unethical'
ECONET Wireless's Dial-A-Doc is operating illegally as it is not approved by the Medical and Dental Practitioners' Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ), an official has said.The MDPCZ and the Healt...Published: 16 Mar 2015 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet's Dial-A-Doc operating illegally
ECONET Wireless's Dial-A-Doc is operating illegally as it is not approved by the Medical and Dental Practitioners' Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ), an official has said.The MDPCZ and the Health Pr...Published: 08 Mar 2015 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
70 Zim doctors face negligence charges
Seventy doctors at various health centres countrywide allegedly displayed negligence and incompetence, which, in some instances, led to patients suffering life-threatening complications.One do...Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Itai Mazire
Bulawayo doctors in fight over name
A FIERCE legal battle has ensued between a prominent Bulawayo medical doctor Stella Ovuapoyerin Achinulo, who owns Parkade Clinic, and Dr Jimmy Gazi who once operated surgeries in Bulawayo before relo...Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 09:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Doctor sued over patient's death
"I WILL not rest until justice is done." This was a Nyanga villager, Mr James Makunura's bold statement following the death of his wife and mother of his only daughter as a result of Dr Miriam Kanyen...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 06:58hrs | 25 | by Cletus Mushanawani
38 doctors found guilty of incompetence
AT least one person died and another had her uterus perforated last year due to incompetence by a medical doctor, while 38 other doctors were found guilty of incompetence, unethical conduct and unprof...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 01:28hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
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