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Forced sterilisation of women in South Africa exposed
Dozens of HIV-positive women in South Africa have been sterilised without their consent or were pressured to agree just before giving birth, an official inquiry has found.State hospitals had v...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 18:22hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe distributes ARVs in fight against coronavirus
THE Health and Child Care ministry has started distributing antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in preparation for the deadly coronavirus outbreak that has so far claimed 2 461 lives and infected 79 930 globa...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:54hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Baboons terrorise patients
BABOONS are terrorising patients at Binga District Hospital stealing their food, vandalising property and causing sleepless nights to expecting mothers as they scrounge for food.In August last...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1238 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coronavirus suspect discharged from hospital
The Zimbabwean woman who was quarantined for tests for coronavirus (Covid-19) at Wilkins Hospital in Harare was yesterday discharged a few hours after testing negative. The 27-year-old woman, ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:32hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe isolates 3 000 over coronavirus
GOVERNMENT has self-quarantined about 3 375 people who have passed through Zimbabwe's ports of entry since the coronavirus was declared an international emergency and will avail US$5,2 million to prep...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:54hrs | 1573 | by Staff reporter
Breaking: Zimbabwe records first Coronavirus case?
A suspected case of the deadly Coronavirus has reportedly been recorded in Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare.Initial reports indicate tha...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 15:16hrs | 8457 | by Ndou Paul
Ndolwane Clinic to become a hospital
A NEW clinic is being constructed in Mambo Village in Ward 7 in Bulilima district which is meant to enable villagers' easy access to health services.Mambo villagers walk to Tokwana and Masendu...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
New heart surgery centre set to open
AS ZIMBABWE battles to rebuild its broken health delivery system, Parirenyatwa Hospital is to set up a centre to perform open heart surgeries, the Daily News reports.This comes as the country'...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1120 | by Staff reporter
Govt to upgrade Beitbridge hospital
THE government is considering upgrading the status of Beitbridge District Hospital to a superior institution, Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo said on Friday.Such an upgrade is envi...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:46hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Hospitals situation improves in Zimbabwe
THE situation at the country's hospitals has improved after doctors ended their strike with all junior doctors reporting for work at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospital, a doctors asso...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:47hrs | 504 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4471 | by George Mkhwanazi
Mnangagwa's govt taken to task over health workers capacitation
GOVERNMENT has been urged to devise a sustainable plan that ensures health workers have adequate tools of the trade to avoid recurrent strikes by doctors and nurses.In a statement, Community W...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa requires US$31m to function optimally
PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals requires US$31 million if it is to operate efficiently as a central hospital, the hospital’s group chief executive officer Ernest Munyawu told Parliament last...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
'MDC does not control cities'
Zimbabwe now able to test for coronovirusZimbabwe is now able to test for and diagnose the coronavirus after obtaining the necessary test kits, local media reported.Health minister Obadiah...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 21:16hrs | 795 | by ANA
Awareness on prevention of Novel Coronavirus
Novel coronavirusWhile health organisations around the world are fighting the spread of the coronavirus, we would advise you to take note of the basic facts surrounding this new virus. As a Mo...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Nurse syndicate channel ARVs to black market
Anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that are supposed to be dispensed for free by public health institutions are being diverted to the black market by some unscrupulous nurses, who are selling a month's suppl...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
BREXIT like Britain or breakaway like Matabeleland
Undoubtedly, the resounding success of BREXIT shows that many nations under the sun, big or small, are now seeking to restore or maintain their independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and be ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1150 | by Israel Dube
Concern over patients defaulting ARVs
The National Aids Council (Nac) Bulawayo provincial manager Sinatra Nyathi has raised concern over the deaths of people with HIV and Aids who stopped taking antiretroviral drugs after being told to do...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:07hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Only Mnangagwa can fire me, not doctors, says Obadiah
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo on Monday bragged in Parliament that he would only be censured by President Emmerson Mnangagwa who appointed him to government and not the senior doctors, who have called ...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 11:23hrs | 2827 | by Staff reporter
Private pharmacy at Parirenyatwa raises stink
DOCTORS at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have asked Parliament to intervene and investigate the issue of a private pharmacy within the hospital's premises, which is competing with the hospital pharm...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1098 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe budgets US$5m for coronavirus
Over US$5,2 million has been earmarked for screening and monitoring suspected cases of the Novel (2019) coronavirus that has been declared a global public health emergency.Speaking at an inter...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:15hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa urges early cancer screening
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has urged women to get early cancer screening and treatment in order to deal with the condition, which has affected thousands of people.Speaking during World Canc...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:09hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe hospital operating at 45% capacity
SALLY Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) was almost deserted yesterday as MPs in the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Health toured the institution.The committee, whic...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses clash
A fact-finding visit to Harare's two biggest hospitals by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health yesterday exposed the acrimonious working relations between nurses and doctors who traded accu...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:52hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Moyo grilled over Zimbabwe coronavirus preparedness
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo was yesterday grilled by Parliament over Zimbabwe's preparedness to deal with the coronavirus should it be detected in the country.Moyo had appeared before the Rut...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 21:12hrs | 1023 | by Staff reporter
Can anyone please assist Chinehasha Health Centre in Mash. Central?
Imagine handling three new born baby deliveries at night using a phone light during an extended power outage, what a nightmare it must be? Chinehasha Health Centre is said to be the first of i...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 18:39hrs | 516 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Chegutu district hospital suspends mortuary services
Chegutu District Hospital has, with immediate effect, suspended all mortuary services to pave way for renovations of the hospital mortuary.The institution's authorities had been criticised by ...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 18:02hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, medical care now a preserve for the rich
AN elderly man ambles into a pharmacy in the capital city, Harare, lamely holding a prescription for drugs, which he presents to a pharmacist.He is told the cost of the medication - a cool US$...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 05:31hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe headed towards compulsory HIV testing?
A young lad wiggles in pain from a swollen leg as he impatiently sits in a fairly long queue awaiting his turn for medical attention at a health institution in Marondera.Instead of letting out...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:12hrs | 892 | by Prince Mushawevato
Masarira blasts ministry of health over coronavirus
LEAD president Linda Masarira has condemned the Ministry of Health and Child Care for failing to take proper preventive measures at Robert Mugabe airport....Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 22:23hrs | 1988 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'No Coronavirus threat in Zimbabwe'
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has said so far there is no need for Zimbabwe to issue trade or travel restrictions over the coronavirus first reported in China. The virus has so far kille...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:12hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors back at work
The return to work by senior doctors at Zimbabwe's referral hospitals has seen normal service returning to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) and Parirenyatwa Group of Ho...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:08hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors fellowship oversubscribed
The Higher Life Foundation fellowship for doctors, which was re-opened last week, is reportedly oversubscribed, with more than 900 doctors having applied barely a day after the fellowship was announce...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:25hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Central Hospital completes special radiotherapy battery room
Mpilo Central Hospital Clinical director Solwayo Ngwenya has announced that the health institution has completed special radiotherapy battery room."Our Mpilo Central Hospital special radiother...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 10:53hrs | 862 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe public hospitals to go digital
Zimbabwe's public health institutions will have all patients' records available in digital form at any health facility after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered Estonia in a project whose pilot p...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:14hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors resume normal duty
Senior doctors who have been providing limited services and attending to emergency cases only since December have returned to work fulltime and upscaled their services to include numerous urgent other...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:33hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Doctors meet Chiwenga
Senior doctors who have been providing partial services and attending to emergency cases only since December have up-scaled their services to include other cases deemed as urgent. This means, ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:40hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes drug thefts at hospitals
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now monitoring public hospitals and clinics to curb thefts and ensure drugs are not diverted to the black market. This follows checks that wer...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:14hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors give up, trickle back to work
A MAN lies on a stretcher, visibly in pain but at ease while three other people sit on wheelchairs, with over a dozen more sitting on benches — chatting and waiting.If one had been here just...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:26hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces serious challenges
A bleak outlook characterised by growing expectations to end Zimbabwe's political impasse, a weakening currency, power and foreign currency shortages stare in the face of President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:58hrs | 12081 | by Staff reporter
Clinics experienced depletion in medication
Bulawayo council clinics recently experienced depletion of medication much to the concerns of the Councillors and the citizens.This is revealed in the latest council minutes."The matte...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 10:22hrs | 944 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt mulls solar systems for public health facilities
Government will soon start installing solar systems in all its urban and rural hospitals and clinics to mitigate challenges of power cuts and high costs involved in running generators, Energy and Powe...Published: 04 Jan 2020 at 13:19hrs | 842 | by Staff Reporter
Doctors report for work, Mpilo resumes operations
MPILO Central Hospital will next week fully open its outpatient department as 75 percent of junior doctors who were on strike are back at work. In an interview yesterday with the Chronicle, Mp...Published: 04 Jan 2020 at 09:31hrs | 2123 | by Staff Reporter
Health minister applauds volunteer nurses
Government has applauded the Zimbabwe Young Nurses' Association for volunteering to work at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals during the festive season. Speaking during a tour of the hospital ye...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 14:46hrs | 1526 | by Staff Reporter
General Tongogara's ZANU PF died in 2017
Is this the country that Tongogara, Chitepo, JZ Moyo, Silundika and other gallant sons and daughters gave up their lives for?Is this version of ZANU PF the same liberation movement that Tongog...Published: 28 Dec 2019 at 07:38hrs | 12857 | by Dr Utete
Hospital services return to normal
All doctors who signed resumption of duty forms have started work at their respective work stations, with their seniors also attending to emergency situations. Although The Herald could not im...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 04:51hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa's advisor blasts government
Member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Advisory Council Dr Shingi Munyeza has come out guns blazing against the failure by government to fix the challenges affecting the health sector. In a ...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 11:35hrs | 8901 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New doctors association launched in Harare
A new doctor's representative organisation has been launched in Harare with a view to avert the current impasse which has seen other association members going for industrial action for over one hundre...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 20:42hrs | 3973 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chinese hospital in Mash East flooded by water
A video of water pouring through the roof of Mahusekwa District Hospital in Mashonaland East has surfaced online. The video shows hospital beds being drenched by water during the recent heavy ...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 10:26hrs | 3641 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe to roll out new tuberculosis preventive therapy
GOVERNMENT has said it will roll out new tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy next year to curb the infectious disease. Speaking during a training workshop on TB reporting in Kadoma last week,...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:24hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
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