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Crackdown on fake nursing qualifications
The Nurses Council of Zimbabwe (NCZ) is set to introduce new diplomas with enhanced security features to combat the issue of fake certificates being used to gain employment in the healthcare sector. ...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:07hrs | 320 | by Staffreporter
457 graduate from Zimbabwe nursing school
Last week, 457 health professionals, including rehabilitation technicians, midwives, and registered general nurses, graduated from Marondera School of Nursing. In a speech read on his behalf b...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 08:51hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Uninterrupted power supply for hospitals, clinics in Zimbabwe
Hospitals and clinics in Zimbabwe are set to be exempted from load shedding as the government plans to install solar power systems to ensure continuous power supply. This move aims to address the issu...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 10:24hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital faces surge in child deaths
Child mortality statistics at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo increased between January and March before decreasing in April this year, despite reassurances from the Ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:57hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plans to shorten the training period for midwives
The government plans to shorten the training period for midwives from two years to 18 months to address the shortage of skilled health personnel, especially in rural areas. Health and Child Care Minis...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:12hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Midwife shortage hits Zimbabwe
The government of Zimbabwe plans to double the health workforce by 2030 to address the critical shortage of midwives and improve maternal healthcare amidst a mass exodus of health workers. This was re...Published: 07 Jun 2024 at 09:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe accused of blocking nurses from taking jobs abroad
Struggling to survive on her meagre salary, Zimbabwean nurse Jane decided to start a new life abroad but, one year after landing a job in Britain, she is still waiting to pack her bags.Jane is...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:59hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ireland continues recruiting nurses from Zimbabwe
THE HSE continued to recruit nurses from Zimbabwe, Ghana and Nigeria for over a month after they were added to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) no-recruit list.The WHO keeps a list of cou...Published: 07 May 2023 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
English language test dashes nurses' hopes of filling UK jobs
As a fluent English speaker, Indian-trained nurse Deepa was surprised to learn she had to sit a language test to practise in Britain, her home for many years. She was even more shocked when she failed...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
All Zimbabwe qualified health professionals recruited
ALL qualified health professionals seeking employment in the public sector have been hired, giving that group a zero unemployment rate as the Health Services Board (HSB) acts to upgrade the public hea...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Medical equipment gathers dust at UBH
WHILE patients countrywide are complaining that public health institutions are running without enough equipment and medication, some donated equipment at Bulawayo United Hospitals (UBH) has been gathe...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Limpopo Health MEC berates Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa again
UNAPOLOGETIC Limpopo Member of the Executive Committee (MEC) for Health, Phophi Ramathuba has gone into overdrive, once again berating a Zimbabwean patient saying she was considering billing President...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is doing nothing, I'm doing his job' - SA health minister in new rant
A new video has emerged of South Africa's health minister for Limpopo province railing at the Zimbabwe government for presiding over a failing health system.Dr Phophi Ramathuba complains that ...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses recruited from Zimbabwe are being caught in UK 'bonded labour' schemes
Zimbabwean care workers are being tricked into coming to the UK by unscrupulous middlemen who withhold up to half their wages and force them to live in squalor.The scam, which plays on the acu...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Ray Mwareya
Midwives shortage hits Harare City Council clinics
HARARE City Council's health services director Prosper Chonzi yesterday said there was a serious shortage of midwives at council-run clinics, saying this had severely affected maternal healthcare serv...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK parliament questions recruitment of nurses from poor countries
THE British House of Lords has questioned the move by the country's National Health Services (NHS) to continue recruiting nurses from countries recording shortages in their own healthcare systems....Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Nurses lose faith in Chiwenga
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) says health professionals have lost faith in Health minister Constantino Chiwenga improving their welfare and arresting the collapse of the health sector....Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | | by jamwanda
'Nelson Chamisa wants elections postponed for 7 years' Charamba says
CCC President Nelson Chamisa wants elections in Zimbabwe to be postponed for 7 years, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba says. Writing on his weekly Saturday column in the state-owned H...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 09:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Makeshift beds for expecting mothers
IN a shocking turn of events, pregnant women are sleeping on the floor at one of the country's biggest hospitals, Parirenyatwa's Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Hospital as the public health facility fails to...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
No bonding, no clearance for nurses
Nurses who intend leaving the country to pursue their careers elsewhere should satisfy all statutory requirements, including bonding, the Nurses and Midwives' Council of Zimbabwe has said.The ...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Traditional healers lure women with promises of easy births
TWO daughters. Long, painful labours. Several miscarriages.For Soko, a hairdresser in her late 30s, the quest for a son and a safe, easy birth led her to seek professional help - from a herbal...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:45hrs | 8 | by Vimbai Chinembiri
Chiwenga, nurses face off over new 'illegal' body
NURSES under the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) banner have dragged Vice-President and Health and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga to court for allegedly presiding over an unlawful inaugur...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Momberume has disappeared, says lawyer
THE Johanne Masowe apostolic sect member, Hatirarame Momberume, who was dragged before the courts to face murder and rape charges after he married a minor, Anna Machaya who died while giving birth, ha...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:05hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Anna Machaya case: Murder charges likley to be dropped, Momberume granted bail
THE murder charges levelled against 26-year-old Hatirarami Momberume who is accused of the murder of his 14-year-old child bride, Anna Machaya, who died at a Marange religious shrine due to complicati...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 19:44hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe re-engages retired nurses
GOVERNMENT has turned to retired nurses and training of Primary Care Nurses (PCNs) as a solution to the massive brain drain currently bleeding the country's health sector, the Zimbabwe Independent can...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Writing a healthcare brand review: How to get an informative and catchy content
Dealing with healthcare issues and specializing in the medical area means always being involved in numerous theoretical and practical assignments, assisting senior doctors or midwives, etc. This area ...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 18:34hrs | 23 | by Staff writer
Council mulls closing four clinics
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is considering closing four of its clinics as the staffing situation within its health services department continues to deteriorate.Last year, the local authori...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Brain drain too rampant in the health sector
IN 1963, the first medical school in then Rhodesia was established and was affiliated to the University of Birmingharm. This followed the establishment of University of Rhodesia in 1952, which was fun...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Johannes Marisa
Midwives shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is facing a critical shortage of midwives at council-run clinics which has seen maternity centres operate with just half of the needed staff, putting pregnant women and unborn babies at risk....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange 'rapist' hubby denied bail
A JOHANNE Marange apostolic church member Hatirarami Momberume (26), whose 14-year-old wife died while giving birth at a church shrine in July, was yesterday further remanded in custody by a Mutare ma...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Husband' of a 14-year-old girl who died during child birth arrested
The "husband" of a 14-year-old girl who died during child birth is behind bars after he was charged with having sex with a minor.Evans Momberume is set to appear at the Mutare Magistrates Cour...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polyclinics demanding payment for COVID-19 vaccines?
The Harare Residents Trust (HRT) has exposed some Polyclinics for conducting corrupt activities, as they are demanding money from people seeking to be vaccinated against COVID-19.Speaking thro...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Rapist' dad fathers own grandchild at 34 years
A 15-year-old girl from Shurugwi was last week admitted to the district hospital's maternity ward after delivering a baby from the pregnancy she only revealed was out of a rape incident by the f...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man impregnates 15-year-old daughter
A 15-year-old girl from Shurugwi has been admitted to the district hospital's maternity ward after delivering a baby from a pregnancy she only revealed was rape by her father when she went into labour...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses leave Bulawayo hospitals
MORE than 140 healthcare workers have resigned from Bulawayo's central hospitals, a development which has compromised service delivery. Most of these healthcare workers are said to be trekking to the ...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces shortage of midwives
ZIMBABWE is still facing an acute shortage of midwives and the situation has escalated due to the COVID-19-induced demand for nurses globally.As the world celebrated International Day of the M...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo gets state-of-the-art gadgets
MPILO Central Hospital yesterday received state-of-the-art machines from the Higher Life Foundation to help the hospital improve maternal and neo-natal health services. The equipment includes ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Conversations must go beyond the forex auction and focus on production
Driving through Zimbabwe's once vibrant industrial hubs in Belmont (Bulawayo), Paulington (Mutare), Southerton, Graniteside, Working, Msasa (all in Harare), and elsewhere, one gets the sense that the ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:06hrs | 9 | by Andrew Lampard
Conversations must go beyond the forex auction and focus on production
Driving through Zimbabwe's once vibrant industrial hubs in Belmont (Bulawayo), Paulington (Mutare), Southerton, Graniteside, Working, Msasa (all in Harare), and elsewhere, one gets the sense that the ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 16:57hrs | 2 | by Andrew Lampard
Nurses are essential workers, the police must respect all essential workers
At around ten thousand strong, nurses are the backbone of the Zimbabwe healthcare industry, as well as its largest profession. Consistently ranked the most trusted profession in The world year after y...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 09:16hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Nurses down injections and thermometers
NURSES at major public hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo downed tools yesterday for fear of contracting the deadly COVID-19 virus after being forced to work without personal protective equipment (PPE)....Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Higherlife Foundation hands over maternal health medical equipment
Harare, Zimbabwe. December 10, 2020 - Through a generous investment from ELMA Philanthropies, Higherlife Foundation yesterday (Dec 10) commenced the handover of maternal health medical equipment to se...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 15:54hrs | | by Agencies
Zimbabwean nurse banned in Scotland
A ZIMBABWEAN mental health nurse has been banned from the profession after he was convicted of sexual assault.The watchdog for nurses and midwives said the nurse had brought the profession int...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira commends Mnangagwa
THE Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has hailed President Mnangagwa for his immense contribution to the health sector through sourcing medical equipment and medicine, ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa officially opens Chamisa's clinic
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed concern at the high number of women dying during childbirth and pledged government's commitment to halt the trend.Officially opening the Hopley Tarir...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | | 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
Diploma in Midwifery intake
Applications are invited from Registered General Nurses who have at least two (2) years post graduate experience to train as Midwives in September 2019. Entry requirements: Appli...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of heroes betrayed, forgotten
When, in the fullness of time, the lies can hold no longer, when the frail bottom of deception falls off, when the foggy morning dew of orchestrated media smokescreens withers and gives way to the pow...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
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