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Nust deploys staff to Ekusileni centre
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has deployed staff to Ekusileni Medical Centre to kick-start the second phase of transforming the facility into a specialist research and teach...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
2022 Post Budget Analysis
The Zimbabwean government presented a ZW$927.3 billion budget (18% of GDP) for the 2022 fiscal year. The government expects to collect revenues totaling ZW$850.7 billion (17% of GDP), thus resulting i...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 09:11hrs | 919 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa's govt says to build 32 hospitals
GOVERNMENT plans to construct 32 hospitals and refurbish existing health infrastructure to improve access to healthcare for the majority of Zimbabweans.This was said by Health deputy minister ...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stanbic donates US$15000 haemodialysis machine to Gwanda Provincial Hospital
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank, has donated a Haemodialysis machine to Gwanda Provincial Hospital to alleviate challenges faced by kidney patients at the health institution and i...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 12:39hrs | 9 | by Agencies
Gwanda Provincial Hospital receives dialysis machine
STANBIC Bank yesterday donated a haemodialysis machine worth US$15 000 to Gwanda Provincial Hospital.Matabeleland South Provincial Development Co-ordinator Ms Latiso Dlamini said Government is...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
MSD warns of heat wave, thunderstorms
THE Meteorological Services Department has issued a heatwave warning, saying temperatures are set to further soar today before the country gets rains, starting with isolated thunderstoms in the southe...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife attends Third Eurasian Women's Forum in Russia
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, who is here to attend the Third Eurasian Women's Forum, on Wednesday had a heart-to-heart discussion with the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly o...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 specialist hospitals boost
GOVERNMENT is in the process of establishing specialist medical schools at four State universities, with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) already recruiting critical staff to t...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Healthcare decay a sign of govt failure
NOTHING exhibits failure by a government more than the neglect of public health institutions and watching helplessly as people succumb to curable diseases.Even more sickening is that tho...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first female pediatric cardiologist
A pediatric cardiac centre opened this week at Mpilo Central Hospital to cater for children suffering from heart ailments and is headed by a history-maker, Zimbabwe's first female pediatric cardiologi...Published: 02 Oct 2021 at 15:36hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's wife gets UK invite
A United Kingdom-based organisation - NCD Global Alliance which fights non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has written to the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa inviting her to join their organisation as an N...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More than 200 arrested in anti-drugs blitz
THE inter-ministerial task force that was set up last month to find solutions to drug abuse has hit the ground running, with more than 200 suspected drug dealers arrested so far.The blitz aims...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Motivate people to get vaccinated, says Mutsvangwa
Journalists have been urged to devise innovative ways of motivating people to take up Covid-19 vaccination and adopt safer sexual behaviours voluntarily and for their own good, rather than because the...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
20 richest investors on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
Investors on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange have amassed staggering wealth since the start of the year owing to the strong pace of recovery in the country and renewed buying interest by local inv...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:05hrs | 554 | by Mfonobong Nsehe
Firm records business breakthrough in Southern Africa
EZulu Foods has made inroads local and to parts of Southern Africa according to officials.The company produces, processes and retails natural and medicinal food, and officially started operati...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 06:59hrs | 19 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt buys 100 ambulances
GOVERNMENT has procured a fleet of 100 new fully equipped ambulances that are set to be deployed to healthcare facilities throughout the country.The first batch of the specialised vehicles is ...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cancer patients face stigma from loved ones
HARARE - Nobody gets nearer to her. She has become a loner, with the television turning into her only friend yet 60-year-old Tendai Makuwana is a cancer survivor.For Makuwana, pounded with can...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 12:09hrs | | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze and Dr Masimba Mavaza
Soft drinks strike Zimbabwean musician with blindness
HARARE - FAMED for fronting some of the most popular music genres in the country, Bob Nyabinde has claimed that his decades old addiction to soft drinks rendered him blind.The popular Zimbabwe...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 17:07hrs | 19 | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze
Zimbabwe's herbalists, doctors unite thwarting non-communicable diseases
HARARE - With government's research confirming that 80 percent of Zimbabweans consult herbalists prior to visiting hospitals, the country's Ministry of Health has shifted to partnering traditional hea...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 16:56hrs | 4 | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze
Let's not ignore other killer diseases, says Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said the country should not neglect other killer diseases while concentrating on the COVID-19 pandemic. Chiwenga, who is Health minister, said thi...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga reinforces 'no-consent, no-Covid-vaccination' policy
VICE President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga has reiterated government's position no Covid-19 vaccination shall be imposed on any citizen unwilling to be part of the world inoculation proce...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets US$234m pledge for Covid-19 response
Development partners have pledged US$234 million towards the country's Covid-19 response as Government warns that the pandemic is set to stretch the health sector. In a joint statement yesterd...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sees rising number of strokes
With the economy of landlocked southern African country Zimbabwe in shambles, the cases of frequent strokes fueled by diabetes and hypertension are rising like an epidemic.To add insult to inj...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 08:49hrs | 6 | by Jeffrey Moyo
Chiwenga bemoans corruption at NatPharm
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has bemoaned corruption at the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm) which he said was hindering the availability of affordable medicines, especial...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cannot rely on imports, says Mohadi
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has said the country cannot continue to rely on grain and cereal imports when it has the capacity to utilise irrigation schemes that are lying idle throughout the country t...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga sends Chamisa packing
Tongues are being rolled overtime as Zimbabweans are being fed propaganda over the suspension of by elections on December. The Vice President Dr comrade Constantino Gueveya Chiwenga, who is also...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 10:50hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's pro-sanctions MPs are terrorists'
ZANU-PF and opposition MPs yesterday made a contest of raising points of privileges to counter each other in the House regarding the poor state of the economy, with the ruling party chief whip Pupurai...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife engages men
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has started engaging men's representative organisations to hear their issues and help overcome ills such as physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence, abuse of c...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Valerio Sibanda's war time exploits
LET me congratulate General Philip Valerio Sibanda for his new post as the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander.I met Comrade Ananias Gwenzi (General PV Sibanda), in Zambia in March 1974 at...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 09:01hrs | 13869 | by Dr Milton, Chemhuru
NAC engages parliamentarians in HIV response
The National Aids Council (NAC) held an HIV and Aids sensitisation workshop for newly-elected members of parliament and senators recently as part of its advocacy strategy. The group was specifically t...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pharmacies warned to revise pricing or lose licences
A disheartening sight it was, witnessing sick people walk in and out of pharmacies empty handed. After having paid exorbitant amounts to have a doctor's diagnosis and yet the prescribed remedy f...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Zimbabwe records 250 new HIV infections weekly
ZIMBABWE is recording 250 new HIV infections weekly said to be fuelled mostly by adolescent girls, a development which may hinder progress towards ending Aids by 2030. The country, which has t...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 05:58hrs | 1050 | by Staff reporter
Indian Vice-President called in to end drug shortages in Zimbabwe?
Government will take advantage of the visit by India's Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, who is expected in Zimbabwe this week, to explore mutually beneficial partnerships that could help rehabilitate th...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leaves for New York
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tonight leave the country, to attend the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) summit, in New York.The summit comes at the backdro...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 16:16hrs | | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
New exam subjects for pupils
More than 16 000 Ordinary and Advanced Level candidates will this year sit for the recently introduced Physical Education, Sport and Mass Displays exams as Government equips pupils with physical liter...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plans nationwide tour to sell Zanu-PF manifesto
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon travel around the country to meet people and unpack Government's programmes following the successful unveiling of Zanu-PF's 2018 Campaign and Election Manifesto ...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to engage public on manifesto
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will soon engage with Zimbabweans around the country to unpack Government's programmes following the successful unveiling of Zanu-PF's 2018 campaign and election manifesto in Harar...Published: 07 May 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tackles corruption head on?
ZANU-PF has reaffirmed its commitment to fighting corruption with those caught on the wrong side of the law set to face the music.Over the years, the scourge had hampered economic growth....Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:20hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
'Unite, fight corruption and create jobs'
President Mnangagwa yesterday launched a business-friendly Zanu-PF 2018 election manifesto that seeks to promote investment and business growth in line with his vision to transform Zimbabwe into a mid...Published: 05 May 2018 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Health Journalists Media mentorship in Strengthening TB Control in Zimbabwe
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) is an international organization that, for 98 years, has drawn from the best scientific evidence and expertise to advance solu...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 11:35hrs | 267 | by Staff Reporter
Sin taxes must finance health
Legislators on Tuesday recommended that Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa introduce sin taxes on unhealthy sugary foods and an additional tax on swipe transactions in order to get additional funding ...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Stamps' hero status to be decided
ZANU-PF has said it will be guided by recommendations coming from the Office of the President and Cabinet on the hero status of the late Health Advisor to the President and Cabinet Dr Timothy Stamps....Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health advisor dies
Health Advisor to the President and Cabinet Dr Timothy Stamps has died.He was 81.Dr Stamps, who is the former Minister of Health and Child Care, died yesterday afternoon at Borrowdale ...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
I am a natural goodwill ambassador, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I have never felt as insulted in my whole long, fruitful and satisfying life as I felt this week when some skunks in the West arm-twisted the leader...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 19:20hrs | | by CZ
Mzembi describes Mugabe in glorious terms
Newly-appointed Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi could be ruing his attempts to ingratiate himself with President Robert Mugabe after masterminding his short-lived appointment as the first ever ...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Being patriotic is not Zanu-PF
The National Pledge that was introduced by Government early this year, from infancy to high school, was long overdue, contrary to misguided sentiments that it was a ZANU PF indoctrination strategy. Th...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 10:29hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Mzembi masterminding Mugabe's short-lived WHO appointment
Newly-appointed Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi could be ruining his attempts to ingratiate himself with President Robert Mugabe after masterminding his short-lived appointment as the first-eve...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khama mocks Mugabe
BOTSWANA President Ian Khama yesterday rubbed salt on President Robert Mugabe's injured ego, poking fun of the Zanu-PF leader's humiliation by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which dethroned him ...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 06:19hrs | 7001 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe never told of WHO appointment, offer would have been turned down
PRESIDENT Mugabe was not formally informed of his so-called appointment as WHO goodwill ambassador in the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and would have rejected the invitation to take...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
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