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Zimbabwe tightens vetting of student nurses

The Ministry of Health and Child Care has stepped up measures to combat the use of fraudulent academic certificates by individuals seeking admission into health training institutions, following a series of high-profile scandals at major ho…

Published: 18 Oct 2025 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe to train 7 000 health workers every year

The Government has announced plans to train 7 000 health workers every year in a bid to address the country's critical shortage of medical professionals and double the national health workforce by 2030.Health and Child Care Minister, Dr Do…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reporter

Nurses in desperate bid to flee Zimbabwe

Thousands of Zimbabwean nurses are stranded and financially drained after spending up to US$2 000 each in failed attempts to migrate for better-paying jobs abroad, as government authorities allegedly delay issuing critical verification let…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter

Harare Institute fires back at Nurses Council

The Harare Institute of Public Health (HIPH) has reaffirmed the legitimacy of its nursing assistant training programme, clarifying that it is fully approved by relevant government bodies, following a public notice from the Nurses Council o…

Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt racks US$3m from nurses, blocks their diaspora dreams

The government is facing sharp criticism for withholding crucial verification letters from thousands of Zimbabwean nurses seeking to work abroad, despite collecting more than US$3.6 million from health professionals for processing the docu…

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe nurses threaten strike

Zimbabwe's fragile public healthcare system is facing yet another major crisis as nurses across the country have signalled their intention to embark on a nationwide strike over poor remuneration, dire working conditions, and severe staff s…

Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe nurses sound alarm over dire conditions

The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) has issued a desperate plea to the government to urgently address the worsening crisis in public hospitals, warning that nurses are working under "impossible conditions" that put patients' lives at ri…

Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 08:46hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe pledges swift action on nurses' grievances

In a proactive move to address escalating concerns within Zimbabwe's public healthcare system, the Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Douglas Mombeshora, on Friday visited Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals to engage directly with frontlin…

Published: 17 May 2025 at 14:17hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe need an urgent reset of parenthood and economic models

We are failing at the family level. When I was growing up, my mom always told me that if I ate vegetables, got good grades, stayed out of trouble, eat what we grew and be obedient to her, even a lowly boy from Honde Valley could grow up to…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 17:09hrs | | by Brian Sedze

Nurses graduate in Hwange

The Hwange Medical Company's School of Nursing proudly celebrated the graduation of 31 trainees who received diplomas in general nursing on Friday, achieving an impressive overall performance rate of 94 percent. Out of 33 candidates who sa…

Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:11hrs | | by Staff reporter

Politics of sympathetic pregnancies

Politics of mimesis Opposition in Zimbabwe - not the Zimbabwean opposition - is in a deep mess. It is vainly looking for causes, models and examples. Our politics, it would appear, has entered a phase which the Greeks would call mimesis.Th…

Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:27hrs | | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Ministry of health scraps O' Level Maths as requirement for nurse training

The ministry of health has quietly scrapped the requirement to have passed O' Level Mathematics for one to qualify for nurse training.The requirements were tweaked more a decade ago, compelling Zimbabweans seeking to train as nurses and ma…

Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter

United Kingdom considers closing temporary visa schemes for care workers

AMIDST a surge in migration to the United Kingdom, the government is contemplating the closure of temporary visa schemes for care workers. This move follows an appeal from the New Conservatives party, supported by former Home Secretary Sue…

Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 04:51hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga punishing Zimbabwe's health workers?

VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has been accused by some disgruntled nurses of blocking salary and allowance increments in the health sector as punishment for past strikes and demonstrations.Their sentiments follow government's move to…

Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 19:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe health sector makes fresh international headlines

AN undercover Public Service International (PSI) investigation has exposed the state of collapse of the country's health sector including gross labour rights violations and corruption.PSI carried out the investigation from the Covid-19 per…

Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:03hrs | 11 | 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 acute shortages of nursing and care staff across B…

Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | | by Ray Mwareya

Zimbabwe govt chokes hungry nurses

AT least 200 nurses face the axe after government yesterday fired Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union president, Robert Chiduku for conducting union business at his workplace demanding better wages for nurses.The 200 nurses will soon appear…

Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself

US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to raise.One matter which I dropped related to the U…

Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

No US$ bonus for nurses

HEALTH professionals have expressed disgruntlement after some of them allegedly received their bonuses in local currency while other civil servants were struggling to access their 13th cheques at local banks yesterday.There were long queue…

Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Demand for Covid-19 jabs overwhelms Gweru nurses

GWERU City Council has 31 vacant positions for nurses at its clinics, a development that has contributed to delays in the mass vaccination drive in the Midlands Capital. Council clinics serve about 50 people a day and in some cases, those …

Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Nurses approach High Court over Chiwenga's flexi-hours

GOVERNMENT should brace for bruising court battles as nurses have approached the High Court seeking an interdict to halt their employer from implementing the "unlawful"removal of flexible working hours.Flexi-hours were introduced in Novemb…

Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga challenges authority to regulate healthcare workers

The eight health professional councils have been challenged to regulate the conduct of healthcare workers to aid Government's push for accelerated attainment of universal health coverage in line with Vision 2030, that of transforming the c…

Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF is an obstruction to rule of law: The cost of dismissing nurses while people already die from lack of medicines in the c

One does not know what is best to believe in order to describe fully what Zanu-PF is. Sad, but however real, that Zanu is either tyrannical or outright in competed to run a country hence the state the country is what it is. Saying these re…

Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 05:41hrs | 4 | by Andrew M Manyevere

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