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Zimbabwean national with cholera admitted to Musina Hospital
Limpopo has recorded its first cholera case, according to the provincial Department of Health.It said the 26-year-old Zimbabwean national reported to Musina Hospital on Friday after experienci...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Massive staff exodus hits Mutare
MASSIVE staff exodus has hit Mutare City Council's fire and health departments as employees seek greener pastures due to poor remuneration and working conditions.In her presentation to the res...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Residents target dirty clinics, schools for cleaning
Luveve residents in Bulawayo have come together in a cleanup campaign targeting all local dirty schools and clinics in wards 15 and 16.The started at Mafakela Primary School situated in ward 1...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
NRZ lays off 300 workers, spokesman suspended
THE National Railway of Zimbabwe in June and July terminated contracts for close to 300 short term contract workers with fears that more might lose their jobs.In a letter signed by acting gene...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is 3 months behind COVID-19'
LOCAL health experts yesterday noted that Zimbabwe was three months behind the ever-mutating COVID-19 virus, and suggested that the best brains were now required to tame the tide.This came as ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 major hospitals without chief executives
ZIMBABWE'S five major hospitals are still without substantive chief executive officers (CEOs) more than a year after they were fired, while most departments in the Health and Child Care ministry are b...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:20hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
No kids at ZITF
THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) Company is planning an exhibition with a difference this year that will see schoolchildren barred on the single public day set aside, while conferences, me...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Travellers overwhelm Beitbridge again
TRAVELLERS returning to their bases in South Africa have once again overwhelmed Beitbridge Border Post and the situation has been made worse by reduced border operating hours as Zimbabwe and South Afr...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 die in suspected fresh cholera scare
FIVE people have died from a suspected fresh cholera outbreak in Mavhurume village in Murewa.The deceased are members of the Johane Marange apostolic sect, who are barred from seeking medical ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on cholera alert
Government has tightened border controls and mobilised resources following heightened fears of a possible cholera outbreak in the country after the disease killed 67 people in neighbouring Zambia....Published: 13 Jan 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zim, SA to establish clinics on major highways
ZIMBABWE and South Africa have agreed to establish clinics along major highways to cater for cross border truck drivers within the region so that they can access HIV health related services.So...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 20:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe is breeding endemic corruption
President Robert Mugabe often presents himself as a clean politician who abhors corruption, but latest developments in his government have once again stoked accusations that the veteran ruler does...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:26hrs | 2 | by Veranda Langa
Effects of Climate Change, the Zimbabwe story
Society is usually ignorant when committing sin, sin that bring heinous and disastrous situations, when not averted in time. Zimbabwe like all other countries has created its own sins that resulted in...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 23:14hrs | 6 | by Mbizo Chirasha
15 city shops operating without licences
Bulawayo City Council's health departments has arrested and fined 15 city shops for operating without operating licences.This has been established in the latest council minutes.Directo...Published: 09 Nov 2015 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Prophets mislead people living with HIV/Aids'
The government has been urged to be alert and act swiftly following revelations by health institutions that many people living with HIV and Aids were now defaulting therapy claiming to have been heale...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 17:08hrs | | by Mary Taruvinga
Uncertified water brands continue to flood the market
Uncertified brands of bottled water will continue to flood the market as the authorities responsible for taking them off the shelves are struggling to carry out their mandate due to "inadequate resour...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 04:01hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Boy (9) lose tip of his penis in a botched circumcision
Barberton - South Africa's national and Mpumalanga health departments are being sued for R10.7m after a botched circumcision in which a 9-year-old boy lost the tip of his penis.A Sapa correspo...Published: 07 Jun 2013 at 12:49hrs | 5 | by Sapa
Frozen fruit suspected in hepatitis A outbreak in U.S.
U.S. - A frozen fruit mix commonly used in smoothies is suspected in a hepatitis A outbreak that has affected five Western states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....Published: 03 Jun 2013 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Dental patients urged to have HIV tests after exposure
Health officials are urging 7,000 patients of an Oklahoma, US dentist to be tested for potential exposure to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.The possible exposure happened at the dental prac...Published: 29 Mar 2013 at 04:34hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Council orders eviction of families from dilapidated flat
The Harare City Council has ordered the eviction of more than 30 families from the dilapidated Vivandelphi Court in Eastlea. Council argues that conditions at the block of flats do not conform...Published: 12 Sep 2012 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 city high rise buildings condemned
Several high-rise buildings in central Harare have been condemned as unsafe or unfit for human use by the Harare fire and city health departments.The departments say the buildings do not meet ...Published: 27 Aug 2012 at 02:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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