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Diarrhoea outbreak hits Harare Central Prison
A DIARRHOEA outbreak has hit Harare Central Prison, which houses an estimated 100 inmates at a time holding cells have no running water. Clean water has reportedly been scarce at the prison, a...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:08hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Fears of deadly second wave of COVID-19 mount
ZIMBABWE risks a more deadly second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak after the festive season with an expected increase in the number of people visiting from neighbouring countries, health experts have w...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:49hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
'Health budget big, but inadequate'
ZIMBABWE'S health budget allocation has been dismissed as grossly inadequate to tackle the myriad of challenges besetting the sector.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube allocated the health sector $...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:21hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube out of touch with reality
SO much was expected from Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube's 2021 national budget, which was presented yesterday. Yet he delivered very little.Zimbabwe has been badly bat...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, nurses headed for another showdown
A legal showdown is looming between Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga (pictured below), who doubles as Health minister, and public hospital nurses, with the health professionals vowing to continue f...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
1,200 defiant nurses struck off payroll
MORE than 1 200 nurses who failed to comply with a Government directive to revert to the normal working hours did not receive their November salaries and bonuses after they were struck off the payroll...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 1179 | by Staff reporter
Nurses plead for dialogue
ZIMBABWE Nurses Association (Zina) has written to the government seeking to have dialogue to solve their differences.This comes after the High Court on Friday gave temporary relief to nurses a...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | 1137 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga suffers a crashing legal defeat
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga and Health and Child Care minister has suffered a crashing legal defeat after the High Court barred him from forcing nurses to return to full-time shift work....Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:24hrs | 3739 | by Staff reporter
Panic strikes Zimbabwe schools
PANIC has gripped the country's education sector as schools and other learning institutions battle to deal with the lethal coronavirus, amid fears of a second wave of the pandemic, the Daily News repo...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:16hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
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 | 216 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 menace grips Matabeleland
Covid-19 is making a comeback in Matabeleland region, a disturbing development given that the country had in the past few months witnessed a decline in new cases prompting Government to relax lockdown...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:24hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in major climbdown
HARD-PRESSED civil servants, who had been demanding a significant pay rise, made a surprise climbdown yesterday when they agreed to a 41 percent salary increment, just a week after they had rejected a...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 20:21hrs | 3406 | by Staff writer
Reviving the rural economy in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's rural economy plays a significant role in national food production, in alleviating extreme poverty and in the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Zimbabwe National Stati...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:37hrs | 2401 | by Victor Bhoroma
Trainee nurses recruitment 'controversy' resurfaces
Activists in Matabeleland have once again lambasted the trainee nurses recruitment system following revelations that only two out of the 45 successful applicants for the Mpilo Central Hospital School ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1869 | by Staff reporter
Alarm over city Covid-19 deaths
BULAWAYO could be headed for another lockdown as health experts and government fear a deadly second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak following a surge in confirmed cases and deaths in the city in recent ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:23hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Fresh row over student nurses
ACTIVISTS in Matabeleland have once again lambasted the trainee nurses recruitment system following revelations that only two out of the 45 successful applicants for the Mpilo Central Hospital School ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:22hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women in Diaspora financial bullies
Many married couples, the world over, develop a shared understanding of who does what in their relationship. It is sometimes an unspoken recognition of an inevitable division of labour and responsibil...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 708 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Government, employees in crunch indaba
THE government will today hold a crunch meeting with its restless workers, in a bid to resolve a long-standing salary dispute.This comes as teachers — who make up the bulk of the public sect...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:21hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Where wildlife produces medical doctors
In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their ed...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1897 | by Emmanuel Koro
Confusion over nurses suspension
THERE is confusion in the handling of the cases of over 1 000 nurses whose suspension was ordered by government as some health institutions are reportedly reinstating them.About 1 280 nurses w...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 3668 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe trapped between State collapse and State failure'
ZIMBABWE is trapped between State collapse and State failure because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has failed to provide basic amenities for its citizens, uphold civil liberties and arrest...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1522 | by Staff reporter
Corona upsurge ticks off experts
Health experts have implored authorities to do more to prevent the breakout of a second wave of the coronavirus. This comes as the country recorded 117 new infections between last Friday and M...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
'Thorngrove Hospital understaffed'
THORNGROVE Infectious Diseases Hospital has been operating below capacity in terms of its human resources complement despite that the health facility was given an added responsibility to take care of ...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 268 | 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 ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:36hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to dock teachers' salaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's underfire government has ordered provincial education directors to name teachers who failed to report for duty since the reopening of schools in September, as it moves t...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 3904 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership. When a leadership fails to provide basic services such as clean water, shelter, food, jobs and power, that leadership deserves urgent repla...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 3252 | by Chief Muzivikanwi
Nurses summoned for disciplinary hearing
THE Health ministry yesterday started sending summons to several nurses in Bulawayo for disciplinary hearing on allegations of misconduct.This comes at a time nurses at public hospitals have t...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
500 nurses served with suspension letters
GOVERNMENT has served close to 500 nurses from Bulawayo's two major hospitals with suspension letters for not reporting for duty and they are expected to appear before a disciplinary hearing next week...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Nurses seek audience with Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE Nurses Association (Zina) yesterday came out guns blazing and requested President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in its impasse with the government, saying the situation regarding their welf...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 19:26hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
'Deploying military personnel in hospitals not sustainable'
HEALTH experts have warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to deploy military health personnel to replace striking doctors and nurses at public hospitals could backfire as it was reaction...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
Nurses threaten sit-ins over flexi-hours scrap
NURSES at public hospitals have threatened to stage sit-in protests to register their displeasure over government's move to force them to work 40-hour weekly shifts after unilaterally scrapping the fl...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:24hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to deal with rogue security elements
THE government will soon establish an independent commission to investigate complaints against members of the security sector after the Cabinet yesterday agreed on the principles for the Zimbabwe Inde...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 06:11hrs | 3908 | by Staff reporter
Military nurses take over hospitals
GOVERNMENT has resolved to deploy military medical personnel at all State hospitals to avoid disruptions caused by striking civilian nurses and doctors.The move, which is widely viewed as Vice...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 06:05hrs | 5473 | by Staff reporter
1 032 nurses struck off payroll
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has removed 1 032 defiant nurses from its pay sheets after they declined to resume normal working hours and insisted on either not working or working sharply reduced ho...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 718 | by Staff reporter
US red flags Zimbabwe over workers' rights abuse
THE United States yesterday threatened to slap Zimbabwe with more sanctions over government's crackdown on labour rights and tightening freedoms of association and assembly.The United States T...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | 763 | by Staff writer
Zimbabwe in a crisis
A crisis where the government deployed the army, rolled tanks into the streets and killed innocent unarmed civilians at 45°angle and a commission of enquiry instituted but no one is held accountable....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 10:04hrs | 6674 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe scoffs at Britain's attempts to link Rushwaya to Mnangagwa
The Zimbabwean government has reacted with consternation a recent debate in the British House of Lords describing the animated and long deliberation as a "shocking level of invasive interest" in the S...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 08:09hrs | 4925 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses defiant as situation deteriorates
NURSES have defiantly said they will continue working flexible hours as the situation in hospitals has deteriorated more than before.This comes after the government has threatened to fire nurs...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 16:23hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told that patriotism is a virtue
GOVERNMENT has been urged to desist from forcing citizens to give positive narratives about the country by enactment of laws but allow patriotism to develop naturally out of good governance.Th...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Striking nurses face loss of permanent status
Nurses in the public sector are to be held to high professional standards with those who strike likely to be moved from the permanent staff and having to reapply for fixed term contracts should they w...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:06hrs | 727 | 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 ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:04hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga accused of using command tactics
NURSES have confronted Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who doubles as Health minister over his decision to reverse their working hours.Early this year nurses reached an agreement with the...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 13152 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers olive branch to UK, US
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has repeatedly accused the US and UK of pushing for regime change in Zimbabwe, on Sunday offered an olive branch to the two countries pleading with them to accept his...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:38hrs | 3061 | by Staff reporter
It's not sanctions, it's corruption that drives away investors, says UK
US and EU embassies in Zimbabwe said the anti-sanctions day held in the country on Sunday was a distraction from the real issues.As such, it won't help the government meet the strong reform ag...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 16:13hrs | 3119 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, nurses clash over flexi hours ban
NURSES have objected to the decision by the Health ministry to scrap the flexible working hours system so that they can work for 40 hours a week.Health secretary Jasper Chimedza on October 19 ...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:59hrs | 2684 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga bans flexi-hours
A SHOWDOWN is looming between health workers and the government after the Health ministry banned flexi-hours which will see nurses working everyday instead of selected days per week.In a lette...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 17:12hrs | 3246 | by Staff reporter
US$500 for dead civil servants
GOVERNMENT has extended an equivalent of US$500 as funeral assistance for its underpaid civil servants who would have passed on. The offer, which was confirmed by both Information secretary Ndavaningi...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:58hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Govt to pay US$500 for dead civil servants
GOVERNMENT has extended an equivalent of US$500 as funeral assistance for its underpaid civil servants who would have passed on.The offer, which was confirmed by both Information secretary Nda...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 08:19hrs | 3811 | by Staff Reporter
Nurses protests: 10 acquitted
TEN of the 11 nurses, who were arrested in June for allegedly contravening COVID-19 lockdown regulations after they gathered at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) in Hara...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:30hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ministry rocked by salaries scam
THE profligate President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration is spending millions of dollars per month on double salaries and allowances for senior officials in the Ministry of Health and Child Care des...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 11087 | by Staff reporter
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