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Govt should fix public health, not meddle in private medical practice
This week, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi announced that the government will keep a close eye on private medical practices, particularly concerning issues of pricing...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:31hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Minister Mombeshora raps Zimbabwe medical aid service providers
Health and Child Care Minister Douglas Mombeshora has criticized medical aid service providers for overcharging and exploiting desperate patients. Speaking at the Association of Healthcare Fun...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:22hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
HIV and AIDS remain the leading causes of death in Zimbabwe
HIV and AIDS remain the leading causes of death in Zimbabwe, accounting for over 25% of all fatalities.Speaking at the 15th Annual Conference of the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbab...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 12:35hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
NUST directed to complete JM Nkomo Ekusileni Hospital
THE National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has been urged to expedite the completion of the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Ekusileni Medical Centre so that it can serve the institution and surroun...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:31hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Cimas expands services in Matebeleland
ONE of Zimbabwe's leading medical aid providers Cimas Health Group has revealed plans to expand its healthcare and wellness services in the Matebeleland region to provide facilities matching global st...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 05:14hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa addresses first session of 10th Parliament
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa addressed the first session of the 10th Parliament this afternoon at the new Parliament Building in Mount Hampden, Harare.Below is the full speech.It is my singular...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 14:30hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Dollarisation key at this juncture
THE instability in the country's macroeconomic environment is a serious cause for concern and solutions should be sought as a matter of urgency.Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that stu...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Johannes Marisa
Public workers want Parly to investigate PSMAS
The civil service workers umbrella body has called on Parliament to probe into just what is happening at Premier Service Medical Aid Society that has resulted in health facilities owned by its subsidi...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MPs demand Nssa regulation
LEGISLATORS have demanded that the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) and medical aid societies be regulated by the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) as they are multi-billion-dollar ins...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe health sector deepens
AUDITOR-GENERAL (AG) Mildred Chiri has exposed the rot in the country's health sector, where there is serious understaffing and shortages of equipment with no ambulances having been procured between 2...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe medical aid societies defend service charges
MEDICAL aid service providers yesterday said they were forced to make monthly adjustments to the cost of their services as a survival strategy owing to exchange rate disparities.Association of...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga threatens to deregister medical aid societies
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday threatened to deregister errant medical aid societies, accusing them of gross malpractices, failure to abide by the rule book, including abuse of funds an...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Huge perks for PSMI boss
THE managing director of Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI) Dr Tafadzwa Gutu is living large with a lucrative contract that sees him pocket US$23 000 a month in salary and allowances.W...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, civil servants fight over Psmas
CIVIL servants representative group Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) is headed for another showdown with Vice President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga over the l...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:20hrs | 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
Govt sends SOS to private doctors
Medical players in private practice have been urged to create partnerships and synergies with the government to save the country's deteriorating healthcare system.Speaking at a Medical and Den...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Private doctors, medical aid societies square off
PRIVATE medical doctors have threatened to turn away patients on medical aid until they have been paid for their services.Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association presi...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sticks to 7,8% growth, defies crisis
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday stuck with the 7,8% growth projection announced by the Ministry of Finance in July, as he opened the fourth session of the ninth parliament, defying recent infla...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Catholic nuns seize control of US$2m Covid-19 project
CATHOLIC Church nuns, through Sisters of the Little Company of Mary (LCM), owners of St. Anne's Hospital in Harare, have acrimoniously seized control of the refurbished health facility's Covid-19 cent...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends Covid-19 vaccination to private sector
Health experts have welcomed the move by the government to extend the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to the private sector saying it would speed up the uptake of the vaccine.As part of the cond...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 17:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mass Covid-19 vaccination for Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT says Covid-19 voluntary vaccinations for all people in Bulawayo and Harare will soon be intensified to achieve national herd immunity. Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Healt...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt makes U-turn on medical insurance
GOVERNMENT is set to establish a new authority under the Health ministry to regulate the operations of medical aid societies, in a departure from an earlier Cabinet decision to place them under the st...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Patients suffer as doctors, medical aid societies clash
A TUSSLE has erupted between medical practitioners in the private sector and medical aid societies, as doctors are accused of turning down policy holders without cash co-payments due to health funders...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt to regulate Medical aid societies
Medical aid societies will soon be regulated by Government following a resolve by Cabinet to establish a medical aid societies' regulatory authority.The new regulatory body will fall under the...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 16:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Amnesty to decongest prisons
Cabinet received an update on the Covid-19 Outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs as chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on the Covid-19 Outbreak. ...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt acts to avert third wave
AUTHORITIES are concerned about high levels of complacency being displayed by the generality of Zimbabweans since the relaxation of Covid-19 regulations and could reintroduce tighter restrictions and ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Medical aid societies hike fees
Zimbabweans seeking health care will have to fork out more for health insurance as medical aid societies have hiked contributions over the last few months for members paying in local currency. ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet raps unwarranted price hikes
Businesses hiking prices of basic goods without justification are being investigated and the Government will take action in cases where there is profiteering, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting S...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outcry over steep medical aid subscriptions
MEDICAL aid companies are in the eye of a storm as policyholders are accusing them of ripping them off through drastic increases in contributions, most of which are wiping out their salaries.D...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Medical aid companies ripping policyholders off
MEDICAL aid companies are in the eye of a storm as policyholders are accusing them of ripping them off through drastic increases in contributions, most of which are wiping out their salaries.D...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Medical aid societies should accommodate low income earners'
THE Ministry of Health has challenged medical aid societies to structure their products in such a way that they are affordable to low-income earners, as healthcare costs continue to rise beyond the re...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government plans to gazette health fees
THE Government has warned private doctors, medical aid societies and pharmacies that it might soon be forced to gazette health fees to protect suffering patients from errant practitioners charging in ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacies warned over escalating drug prices
Government has warned that pharmacies overcharging clients or selling medicines in United States dollars risk losing their operating licences. Unscrupulous pharmacies are overcharging customer...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt warns overcharging pharmacies
Government has warned pharmacies that are overcharging clients or selling medicines in United States dollars that they risk losing their operating licences. Unscrupulous pharmacies are overcha...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Foreign medical treatments gobble $400m annually'
Health minister Obadiah Moyo has disclosed that the country is losing about $400 million annually on overseas medical treatments.Moyo made the disclosure in Nyanga, while officially opening th...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Private hospitals demand up to US$700 fees
SOME PRIVATE health institutions are demanding as much as US$700 deposit and up to US$250 per night for patients admitted, making falling ill an economic nightmare for the majority.A survey by...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Health Insurance Bill now at an advanced stage'
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo says government is now at an advanced stage in the crafting of a National Health Insurance Bill, which will provide a national health safety net to all citizens.Mo...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Funding for Zimbabwe's healthcare now dire
The country's healthcare system has become unsustainable in the face of serious funding challenges and for the umpteenth time, Zimbabweans have to brace for yet another gruelling round of increases in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cost of dying goes up in Zimbabwe
A NEW wave of price increases has seen hard-pressed Zimbabweans grappling with counting the cost of dying.Funeral insurance companies, hit by a failing local currency, have joined the bandwago...Published: 02 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
AHFoZ calls for stakeholder meeting over healthcare costs
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) notes with concern that most service providers and health institutions have introduced or continue charging members co-payments and/or shortfa...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Medical Aid Societies increase payments for healthcare services
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe has increased the fees payable by its member medical aid societies to healthcare service providers with effect from Monday (February 11).Payme...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:04hrs | | by Agencies
Hospital fees skyrocket
ZIMBABWE has been plunged into yet another health crisis as hospital fees have sharply risen, well beyond the affordability of most citizens, with most private health institutions now demanding paymen...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:49hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Medical practitioners propose steep US$ charges
Zimbabweans should brace for new tariffs from the medical practitioners after a leaked document showed proposed charges pegged in United States dollars.The document, which was widely circulate...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Internet shutdown negatively impacts on Zimbabwe businesses
THE internet shutdown by government has had an adverse impact on business operations in various sectors of the economy, businessdigest has learnt.Government last week switched off internet con...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Growing unrest exposes official posturing
FAILURE by government to address the unrelenting currency crisis has come back to haunt the country as evidenced by widespread unrest triggered by the rising cost of living.Finance minister Mt...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
More exemptions on Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax
TREASURY has proposed further exemptions to the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax of two cents per dollar transacted following widespread stakeholder concerns and the need to ease cost of doing busines...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tshinga Dube in forex payment shock
FORMER War Veterans minister and ex-Makokoba legislator Tshinga Dube recently came face to face with the desperation many Zimbabweans face after a pharmacy demanded that he pays for his medication in ...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 07:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Cimas accepting RTGS, FCAs
One of the country's leading medical aid societies, Cimas, said its members should continue to pay their contributions through payment modes made available to them by the regulatory authorities....Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
AHFoZ calls on RBZ to urgently allocate forex for healthcare products
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe has expressed concern that there is no mention of healthcare products in the list of strategic imports for which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says it ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 16:12hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Private hospitals demand co-payments
Patients on medical aid seeking treatment at private hospitals are now required to pay co-payments following an increase by at least 20 percent on all medical costs by some institutions, The Herald re...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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