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Mpilo junior doctors move into new quarters
JUNIOR doctors in Bulawayo have moved into reconstructed Mpilo Central Hospital residence quarters which were destroyed by fire, a development that is expected to improve the delivery of health servic...Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:56hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Marvo Stationery saga rages on...10 years later
The Marvo Stationary case continue to drag on and on, with new twists and turns. Since the company was sold to Mahlongonono Valela and his partners, following the death of Mr. Kates the original owner...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 13:14hrs | 1224 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
PHOTOS: Prophet Edd Branson funds free medical health checkup in Epworth
Jesus Generation Ministries leader and Diplomat Prophet Edd Branson has through his Edd Branson Foundation held a free medical test and check up initiative in Epworth. The event was held on Ne...Published: 02 Jan 2023 at 13:39hrs | 705 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga to testify on murder attempt
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga is set to testify in a case where his ex-wife Marry Mubaiwa is accused of attempting to kill him in South Africa two years ago.Mubaiwa, who is being represe...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:24hrs | 1128 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's detained activist falls sick
ONE of the detained Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Nyatsime activists, Ephrage Gwavava, is seriously ill, his lawyer confirmed.Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum lawyer Noble Chinhanu told N...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ex-wife's bid to shift attempted murder trial to SA fails
Court has rejected a bid by Marry Mubaiwa to have her trial shifted to South Africa where the attempted murder on her ex-husband and Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga allegedly took place....Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:08hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi readies for court battle
WARRIORS forward Kudakwashe Mahachi has denied allegations of scalding his four-year-old son with boiling water and has threatened legal action in a bid to be allowed access to the boy.Mahachi...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 1029 | by Staff reporter
Qoki brings smiles to hundreds of households in Matebeleland
THE past few weeks have seen Qoki Zindlovukazi trending following a revelation that the group of Zimbabwean women in the diaspora are millionaires after investing so much in immovable property....Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Doctors team up to provide free health services
LOCAL Doctors are complementing the government's drive to enhance access to health care, with a free medical outreach programme targeting vulnerable communities in Bulawayo.91-year old Gogo Es...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 14:59hrs | 36 | by ZBC
Zimbabwe now medical oxygen, industrial gas sufficient
ZIMBABWE is now medical oxygen and industrial gas sufficient following the official opening of its first Air Separation Unit (ASU) plant expected to transform the country's health and agricultural sec...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
IOM rescues stranded illegal migrants
ABOUT 100 Malawians stranded in Beitbridge were recently rescued by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) which facilitated their safe return to their country.Zimbabwe has for yea...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health institutions face critical staff shortages
HEALTH institutions across the country are facing shortages of critical staff, which has severely affected effective healthcare delivery at a time when the country is still grappling with the COVID-19...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Doctors predict mass deaths
MEDICAL doctors have warned of a looming surge in COVID-19-related deaths in the coming days, saying the figures were likely to double this week as positive cases continue to rise against a drop in th...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:05hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims demand child school fee exemptions
SURVIVORS of the 1980s government atrocities on people in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, better known as Gukurahundi, have demanded school fees payment exemption on all children in areas that we...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Women suffer brunt of Harare's water woes
Rita Tawona is a 34 year old mother who lives in Glenview, a Harare high density suburb, with her husband and four kids.Her day starts as early as 3AM as she wakes up to join a long winding qu...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa talks tough
THERE are no sacred cows in the fight against corruption and Zimbabweans must collectively play a part in building a transparent society, the President has said. Officially opening the 20th Sa...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students starving in foreign lands
Zimbabwean students who are on the presidential scholarship scheme are finding it difficult to get by because government is struggling to fund their needs.Thousands of students are on the pres...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 10:17hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
28 arrested in police raid at 'safe house'
ABOUT 28 victims of torture by State security agents were on Monday morning arrested from a safe house in Harare from where they were receiving treatment and are today expected to appear in court for ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gvt responds to doctors' demand for foreign currency salaries
Government has told doctors who are on strive demanding payment of salaries in United States dollars that they should not expect any such development in the near future.Posting on micro-bloggi...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 20:11hrs | 8080 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe government shells out $60 million treasury bills
Government's debt to Premier Service Medical Investment (PSMI) is set to increase on account of future interest costs after it approved a $60 million issue of treasury bills (TBs) to refinance and rol...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe, UK in talks to bridge skills gap
British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Ms Catriona Laing yesterday paid a courtesy call on Minister of State for Government Scholarships in the Office of the President and Cabinet Dr Christopher Mushohwe to e...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt begins new recruitment of nurses
The Health Services Board (HSB) and the Ministry of Health and Child Care is inviting applications from qualified unemployed registered general nurses, primary care nurses and similarly retired nurses...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 16:55hrs | 3278 | by Staff reporter
Airlifting leaders to foreign lands for medical attention normalized by the dead govt
MDC-T vice President Nelson Nehemiah Chamisa has mocked the Zanu PF government for seemingly to be satisfied that leaders when they get sick they are airlifted to medical institutions outside the coun...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 11:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Satanism: Students, teacher appear before headman's court
SIX Nyanyadzi High School students and a primary school teacher appeared before Headman Gudyanga's court last Saturday to answer allegations of their involvement in acts of Satanism.An u...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 11:12hrs | 2103 | by Staff reporter
Vendors demand arrest of osiphatheleni
BULAWAYO Vendors and Traders' Association (BVTA) has rapped the government and local authorities for clamping down on its members, while illegal cash dealers are left to operate freely on street corne...Published: 02 May 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
First Mutual Health Medical rolls out Biometric identification method
The First Mutual Medical Aid has rolled out a biometric medical health enrolment facility which will see members m=being identified through the system biometrical.The institution revealed this...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 07:41hrs | 306 | by Stephen Jakes
Residents get free treatment
MORE than 1 000 Bulawayo residents yesterday received free medical treatment from an outreach programme held by the Medical Health Expo.The programme is aimed at bringing hospital faciliti...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mugabe the worst wasting asset for Zimbabwe
If it were not for weird legislation that seeks to punish people of Zimbabwe for criticising President Robert Gabriel Mugabe for being the worst wasting asset for the country, Zimbabweans countrywide ...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 15:11hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Everyone should unconditionally get medical assistance
The revelation by the Swazi Minister of Health, Sibongile Simelane last week that the Zimbabwean medical health institutions were charging more than forty (40) times higher than charged by other count...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 15:47hrs | 1769 | by John Mukumbo
Biti is sick and I have cancer... So?
In an age where people fight against pedestrian diagnosis in regards with medical health, we expect exemplary action from political leaders. To have a politician speak in public over another's health ...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 19:30hrs | 22803 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Joshua Nkomo's brainchild might suffer still birth because of 'greed'
Parliamentary portfolio committee on Health chairperson, Ruth Labode, Wednesday said Ekusileni Medical Health Centre - a brainchild of the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo - might suffer a still birth...Published: 12 Jun 2014 at 09:01hrs | 4111 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe aide named in PSMAS looting
Presidential spokesman George Charamba has been sucked into the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) benefits saga amid revelations that he sat on the beleaguered medical funder's main board...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 14:19hrs | 5557 | by Staff reporter
SA, US to conduct joint military exercise
The South African and US armed forces will conduct a joint exercise in Eastern Cape to raise preparedness for intervention in an unstable country, it was announced on Thursday.The exercise, c...Published: 12 Jul 2013 at 05:19hrs | 3490 | by Xinhua
'Sex workers lack alternative'
Inspecting a parade of scantily dressed sex merchants lining a booking house in Mutare's city centre, my attention is drawn to excited shouts from three young boys further up D Avenue.They are...Published: 14 Jan 2013 at 07:06hrs | 4942 | by Staff reporter
There Will Never Be Hope for the Prosperity of the Youth in Mugabe's Reign says Ncube
KARIBA - For as long as Mugabe remains in power there will never be better life let alone a hope for it, for the young people in this country as has been shown by his well calculated motive to destroy...Published: 08 Jul 2012 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rapist doctor fails to produce patient's card
THE medical doctor, who allegedly drugged and raped a 21-year-old patient at his surgery, failed to produce the woman's diagnosis card and the drug he administered to her to the police, the court hear...Published: 18 Apr 2012 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe HIV spreader files human rights complaint
An HIV positive Zimbabwean man who knowingly spread the virus to four women in Canada has complained his human rights have been violated because the jail where he is held has made errors in his medica...Published: 06 Mar 2012 at 18:34hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
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