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Bulawayo records 70 home births in 2 months
BULAWAYO recorded more than 70 home births in two months with reports that these may result in the country failing to meet sustainable development goals on reducing maternal and neonatal deaths....Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 15:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Analysts dismiss suggestion that Thokozani Khupe withdraw candidature against Mthuli Ncube
Professor Jonathan Moyo's recommendations that Dr Thokozani Khupe withdraw from running against Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, as the latter has a better chance of developing Cowdray Park, ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 07:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant immigrants turned away from Joburg clinics
Priscilla Tumira from Zimbabwe thinks she is eight months pregnant, but she has not had any prenatal health care. Without valid documents, Tumira says, staff at Jeppe and Hillbrow Clinics in Johannesb...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records an increase in home births
BULAWAYO recorded an increase in home deliveries since January this year, a development which experts say may reverse gains made in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Zimbabwe.R...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 07:34hrs | 39 | by Staff Reporter
Harare hikes rates
Harare City Council has proposed rate hikes that will see an average high-density suburban householder paying $2 387 a month, up from the present $1 736, from January for basic services, while a low d...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Power blackouts force Zimbabwe firms to shut down
Zimbabwe's economy could grind to a halt if power outages gripping the nation persist as production plunges, exports decline, companies lay off staff and disposable incomes shrink, after it emerged th...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Wheel clamping fees up 1 000%
Harare City Council has increased charges for clamping and towing of vehicles by over 1 000 percent in its $829,86 million supplementary budget that was approved yesterday. The budget that slightly in...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Maternity fees back
THE Government has reintroduced maternal user fees with pregnant women expected to pay at least RTGS$80 to register at public health institutions. This came out during a sexual and reproductiv...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo fails to cope, maternity patients sleep on the floor
MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo is failing to cope with the high number of maternity patients resulting in some of the expecting and new mothers sleeping on the floor, a situation described as depl...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pregnant women flood Harare hospital
Harare Central Hospital is struggling to cope with a surging number of women seeking free maternal health services — creating bed shortages in the process at one of the country's major referral cent...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga slams Chamisa's street antics
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has hit out at MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, for tarnishing the reputation of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission by making unsubstantiated claims of improp...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 13:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga tells Chamisa that 'Laws made in Parliament'
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has hit out at MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa for tarnishing the reputation of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) by making unsubstantiated claims of im...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga explains devolution
Zimbabwe is a unitary state and the devolution to be implemented is economic- oriented where provincial councils should initiate and champion economic programmes for their respective provinces, Vice P...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will remain a unitary State
Zimbabwe will remain a unitary State, while the devolution being implemented by Government seeks to achieve fair and balanced development spearheaded by provincial councils which must initiate economi...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Chiwenga to give unemployed teachers, nurses jobs?
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said Government has plans to ensure that unemployed teachers and nurses in the country end up getting jobs. Speaking during a well attended Zanu-P...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife cheats with cousin
A STONERIDGE man has reportedly volunteered to foot maternity fees and preparation for an unborn child after his illicit affair with a cousin's ex-wife came to light.Gilbert Paka, who happens ...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 15:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pregnant women lambast Chitungwiza local clinic nurses over charges
Pregnant women from Unit L Chitungwiza have lambasted health personnel at their local clinic at Unit L where nurses in the maternity section charge $10-00 for every child born there.This was r...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 07:18hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
HIV+ people petition Chimene over viral load tests
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene yesterday refused to accept a petition from people living with HIV and Aids, who were demonstrating in Mutare for not being able to acce...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by staff reporter
Married woman fakes trip to prostitute
'She lied to hubby that she is going to SA'AN expecting Glen Norah married woman is alleged to have faked a trip abroad to engage in prostitution before clashing with a hooker in the Avenues o...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 13:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teenage mum detained over maternal fees
A FIRST time teenage mum endured a hellish four-day ordeal at Luveve clinic in Bulawayo after she was detained for failing to pay $80 in maternity fees.Takudzwa Bheja, 17, from Magwegwe North ...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 05:26hrs | 7 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Few babies born at Bulawayo clinics worry authorities
A drastic drop in number of births at Bulawayo City Council's clinics has worried authorities to the extent of launching a full scale probe.The city's health, housing and education commi...Published: 25 Jan 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Harare Hospital has a desperate women detention room
Harare Residents Trust has exposed that the Harare Hospital has a big room call 'kugomba' (egodini / the pit) where desperate women are detained to give birth when they have no money."At Harar...Published: 09 Sep 2015 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Council re-introduces the $30 maternity service fee
Bulawayo City Council has re-introduced the $30 maternity service fee that was scrapped two years ago after government approved its 2014 budget. The arrangement between government and local a...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 06:34hrs | | by Bongani Ndlovu
'15 women die daily giving birth'
At least 15 women die daily while giving birth in the country, members of parliament claimed on Tuesday.Debating a motion on the status of health delivery in the country introduced by Zanu-PF...Published: 02 Jul 2014 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Private health sector charges are exorbitant
It is every individual's right to have access to the best quality medical care available in the country. Amnesty International USA, states that, "Health care is a public good, not a commod...Published: 24 Jun 2014 at 12:46hrs | 2 | by Peacemaker Zano
Uproar over medical consultation fees hiking
People's representatives Sunday said the increase in medical consultation fees by government were unjustified and should be reversed as the new fees were inaccessible, considering the prevailing hard ...Published: 26 May 2014 at 11:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Medical consultation fees go up 100%
GOVERNMENT has increased consultation fees for general practitioners by 100 percent, but massively slashed maternity fees for private hospitals. In a notice published in the Government Gazette...Published: 24 May 2014 at 03:45hrs | 1 | by Innocent Ruwende
Zim hospital demands livestock for maternity fees
EXPECTANT mothers at St Paul's Hospital in Lupane are paying maternity fees with their livestock, a move which is in violation of Government's policy of free access to healthcare for pregnant and lac...Published: 23 Feb 2014 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital unleashes debt collectors to collect maternity fees
WOMEN who gave birth between 2009 and 2012 at Mpilo Central Hospital say the institution has unleashed debt collectors on them to attach their property after they failed to settle maternity fees....Published: 06 Feb 2014 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Some Zim service providers refusing to take SA rands
ZIMBABWEANS are being ripped off by retailers and service providers who are taking advantage of the decline in the value of the rand, as the country battles with the fluctuating rates caused by the us...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T's statement marking the end of 16 Days of Activism
As the people of Zimbabwe and the world marks the end of the 16 Days Activism against Gender Based Violence (GBV), today, the MDC-T commends the people of Zimbabwe from all walks of life for tak...Published: 10 Dec 2013 at 11:33hrs | 1 | by Lucia Matibenga
Hospitals threaten to attach patients' properties over bills
Cash-strapped public hospitals have resolved to attach the property of patients who fail to pay hospital fees as a way of recovering the millions of dollars they are owed, a factor they say is contr...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 10:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant girlfriend barred from disrupting wedding
A Harare man concealed his wedding plans to his pregnant girlfriend fearing she would disrupt the ceremony.Denford Mukanda, told the Harare Civil Court that he was involved with Farirai Zhou f...Published: 03 Oct 2013 at 12:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free maternity regime begins in Zimbabwe
Rural and district hospitals are now getting an allocation from the Health Transition Fund (HTF) to cover maternity costs as government steps up efforts to scrap maternity user fees.Last year,...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 07:43hrs | 4 | by Health reporter
2 800 women die during pregnancy yearly
ABOUT 1 300 to 2 800 women and girls die from pregnancy-related problems and 26 000 to 84 000 women and girls are disabled by pregnancy and childbirth complications yearly, findings by Zimbabwe Women ...Published: 13 Apr 2013 at 21:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in as Kenyan president
NAIROBI - Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in as Kenya's new president, following his victory in March against Raila Odinga.Dignitaries and tens of thousands of people witnessed the inauguration...Published: 09 Apr 2013 at 17:25hrs | | by BBC
Free medical care for under 5, over 65, pregnant women
PREGNANT women, children under five years and those above 65 years of age will, from today, receive free medical care at all rural health centres countrywide after Government scrapped user fees....Published: 28 Feb 2013 at 19:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mpilo engages debt collectors
ONE of the country's major referral hospitals, Mpilo Central Hospital is seeking the services of debt collectors in a bid to recover money from defaulters running into millions of United States dollar...Published: 12 Feb 2013 at 04:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hospitals detain mothers over maternity fees
PUBLIC hospitals and clinics continue to detain mothers and deny them their babies' birth confirmation records over maternity fees despite the scrapping of the charges by the Government, a survey ha...Published: 22 Jan 2013 at 05:16hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
It's a criminal offence for Zimbabweans to have dual citizenship - Mohadi
GOVERNMENT has warned that it is a criminal offence for Zimbabweans to have dual citizenship following allegations that some people based in the diaspora were acquiring dual birth certificates &n...Published: 06 Jan 2013 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Khuphe, Harare mayor heading for a major showdown
Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe and Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda are heading for a major showdown after the mayor dismissed her push to scrap maternity fees at council clinics, describing the ...Published: 25 Sep 2012 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkayi nurses threaten to take women who deliver outside clinic to the police
Women from Gwayibayaya and Kote villages in Gwelutshena, Nkayi North, have appealed to the Government to intervene in a situation that has forced pregnant women to risk their lives and those of th...Published: 17 Sep 2012 at 00:44hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
Government is yet to scrap maternity fees - Health Minister
Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Henry Madzorera on Wednesday said government has not yet announced the scrapping of maternity fees at Government hospitals and council cli...Published: 06 Sep 2012 at 04:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant women appeal to govt to implement the scrapping of maternity fees
PREGNANT women in the country's rural areas have appealed to the Government to implement the scrapping of maternity fees in district hospitals amid reports they were still being charged to delive...Published: 04 Sep 2012 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women giving birth on hospital floors
The Harare Central Hospital maternity wing is failing to cope with a huge influx of expecting mothers following the scrapping of maternity fees, with some of the women being forced to give birth on th...Published: 02 Sep 2012 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe's fall out with Tsvangirai to cost her
MDC-T vice-president, Thokozani Khupe, has reportedly fallen out with party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai and is sitting on a political knife edge, as party members in Bulawayo are pushing for her ouster....Published: 15 Jul 2012 at 08:43hrs | 3 | by Nqaba Matshazi I The Standard
Maternity fees to be scrapped
Maternity fees charged at government hospitals are set to be scrapped before year-end. The move is expected to bring down the country's maternal mortality rate which is among the highest in the regio...Published: 18 Jun 2012 at 10:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Church elder loses bible to prostitute after failing to pay maternity fees
A Bed hopping devout CHRISTIAN believed to be an elder at his church in Highfield reportedly lost his bible and pocket diary to a self-confessed prostitute after he failed to give her maternity fees....Published: 11 May 2012 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khuphe on rising maternal mortality in Zimbabwe
Statement by Deputy Prime Minister, Thokozani Khupe on rising maternal mortality in ZimbabweIt is disheartening to note that the number of women in Zimb...Published: 26 Apr 2012 at 11:40hrs | | by Thokozani Khuphe
Red tape blamed for delaying the release of Bulawayo's $40 million
Government red tape has been blamed for delaying the release of the $40 million earmarked for Bulawayo's re-industrialisation.The Zimbabwe Unemployed People's Association (Zupa) president Inno...Published: 24 Jan 2012 at 13:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
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