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Zimbabwe winning HIV/AIDS fight
Zimbabwe has registered considerable success in the quest to end HIV in children through the way it targets pregnant women and is now urging global peers to embrace the strategy.This came up a...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 23:44hrs | 181 | by Staff Reporter
Bulilima villagers build 6 clinics
SIX clinics being built by villagers in Bulilima East are nearing completion, a move that is expected to boost health provision and reduce distances they walk to access health services.The cli...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 08:54hrs | 1028 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans targeted by Operation Dudula members
Members of Operation Dudula have been chasing away immigrants from the Jeppe Clinic in central Johannesburg. The provincial department of health says it is not aware of this.On Monday, GroundU...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:45hrs | 4957 | by Johannes Marisa
Matabeleland provinces get 10 ambulances
THE Government has delivered 10 fully-kitted ambulances to Matabeleland North and South provinces out of the 100 it has so far procured as part of its efforts to alleviate challenges arising from tran...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:53hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ambulance distribution begins
The Government has allocated 40 new fully kitted ambulances to public health institutions countrywide, while an additional 60 specialised medical emergency vehicles are set to be distributed to health...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 08:57hrs | 137 | 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 | 420 | by Staff reporter
Tragically, black people now willingly portraying themselves as fools and idiots!
Last night, it was most interesting, and even illuminating, watching a news clip on the Rhodesia period comic show, 'Tiki' - which featured a young black man engaged in several supposedly hilarious sk...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:44hrs | 374 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa is out of order; he must do his work, says SA MEC
South African Limpopo Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba says the presence of Zimbabweans in her country in need of healthcare, including women going to give birth there, running away from collapsed hospi...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 7757 | by Staff reporter
Remembering gukurahundi genocide
The spirit of Mthwakazi insecurity and why the Mthwakazi prosecutor general must bring the perpetrators of these henious crimes to justice.Greetings to all!For forty-two years, the insecur...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 773 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
SA minister puts medical profession to shame
A VIDEO trended Tuesday of a South African provincial minister raging at the extra burden Zimbabwean migrants – many of them illegal – are imposing on already overstretched healthcare services in ...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:53hrs | 6329 | by Staff reporter
Margaret Dongo lifts lid on liberation war sex abuses
WAR veteran Margaret Dongo says the story of sexual abuse of women ex-combatants by their commanders during the armed struggle in the military camps is yet to be told fully.Dongo lifted the li...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe HIV+ pregnant women number among world highest
ZIMBABWE has been ranked one of the 22 countries with the highest burden of pregnant women living with HIV.This is despite the country having made major strides in testing and preventing the v...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP challenges eviction of 30 000 villagers
Chegutu West legislator Dexter Nduna (Zanu-PF) yesterday challenged the eviction of over 30 000 people from Kanyemba Farm by the Chegutu Rural District Council.Nduna and Chegutu Residents Asso...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
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 | 244 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says his policies will guarantee certainty
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa said his party will prioritise fighting corruption as part of measures to restore economic stability in the country.In a se...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Hospitals turn away pregnant women
PUBLIC hospitals are reportedly turning away pregnant women due to lack of sundries needed for childbirth.The dire state of the country's health delivery system has prompted nurses to call for...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Major upgrade for council clinics
A MAJOR infrastructure upgrade of Bulawayo City Council (BCC) clinics is underway and involves improving water supplies to the health facilities as well as medicines and other consumables.The ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:09hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Free ambulance service, medication for pregnant women
A PARTNERSHIP between Government and the World Bank has resulted in the introduction of free ambulance services and medication for needy pregnant women in Bulawayo and Harare as part of efforts to imp...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 23:41hrs | 649 | by Staff Reporter
100-ambulance boost for health sector
GOVERNMENT has taken delivery of 100 ambulances that are set to be distributed across the country's 10 provinces soon as authorities ramp up efforts to improve service delivery at public health instit...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:09hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Chinese health project benefits two million Zimbabweans
ABOUT two million Zimbabweans have benefited from a maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) project sponsored China Aid.Currently, the country's health delivery system is a shamble due to a ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on course to eradicate malaria
ZIMBABWE is on course to win the fight against malaria, after a 70% drop in new cases, officials have said.Health ministry social behaviour communications officer Fortunate Manjoro said Zimbab...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:43hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
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 | 197 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 2381 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
SA stands its ground on illegal immigrants crisis
SOUTH Africa has repeated claims that illegal immigrants were burdening that country's health system resulting in its citizens failing to receive healthcare services.This follows a video that ...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 07:15hrs | 2899 | by Staff reporter
'Men lagging behind in PrEP uptake'
MALE uptake of interventions to prevent HIV such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxix (PrEP), has remained low despite improved availability and affordability, health experts have said.PrEP is an effec...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:26hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Health disaster looms for expecting mothers at Plumtree Hospital
PLUMTREE Hospital workers have expressed concern over the safety of expecting mothers at the institution.A senior employee at the health institution, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:50hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean ice cream maker a hit in SA
FROM a tender age, Dr Tapiwa Guzha (35), a Zimbabwean based in Cape Town, South Africa, loved cooking and eating indigenous fruits and vegetables from his grandmother's rich nutrition garden in Marlbo...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:35hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane ward 9 villagers walk 16km to clinics
UMZINGWANE villagers in Matabeleland South province have called on government to construct a clinic in their area, lamenting that they have to walk eight to 16km to access health services.They...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Govt reaches out to HIV positive children
Government is reaching out to children living with HIV to take advantage of the available treatment as part of accelerated efforts to achieve an HIV free generation, Vice President and Minister of Hea...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 91 | 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 | 974 | by Vimbai Chinembiri
Zanu-PF women donate to Mpilo Hospital
MPILO Central Hospital is in dire need of sanitary pads and diapers with reports that two abandoned children are taken to the public institution weekly.Officials said more than half of the hos...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean firefighters join nurses in leaving the country for better pay abroad
Samuel Chikengezha, a 35-year-old fireman, sits on a sofa in his modest home, staring at the television set while he stresses over how he'll make ends meet this month.He has not yet paid schoo...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 14:15hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
In Nkayi, pregnant women deliver in the dark
Lilian Mdlongwa, 19, a first-time mother from Manomano village, recalls how she almost lost her baby when she went into labour at Nkayi district hospital a month ago, when there was complete shutdown ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 886 | by Staff reporter
A crime against humanity cannot be covered by twisted definitions of words Peace and Unity
In his speech on the Unity Day President E. D. Mnangagwa said a lot about the outcome of a unity accord that was signed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. Mr Mnangagwa describes Zanu's quest for a one...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:53hrs | 601 | by Mkhululi Zulu
'Dont re-ignite gukurahundi', Mnangagwa threatens Matabeles with second genocide
"As we give space to our traditional leaders to lead processes of reconciliation and repair, we should guard against those negative elements which aim to re-ignite frozen differences to throw us back ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:48hrs | 2951 | by Israel Dube
Bulawayo Covid-19 hospitalisation rises
THE number of Covid-19 hospitalised patients countrywide has started rising with statistics indicating that there were 260 in hospital on Friday up from only 17 cases a fortnight ago.Bulawayo'...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:01hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
MHCT fights Hydrocephalus
The joys of expectant parents are shuttered upon hearing these words, "Your child has a bigger head than any normal child and you have to go through a caesarian section to give birth." What! a big hea...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 11:00hrs | 36 | by Health Correspondent
2 more expecting mothers raped at Maphisa Hospital
THE Health ministry has tightened security at Maphisa Hospital in Matobo district, Matabeleland South province, after the institution experienced a series of break-ins at its maternity ward where preg...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
2 more pregnant women raped in hospital
TWO more pregnant women were yesterday morning raped at Maphisa District Hospital in Matobo District, Matabeleland South Province by yet to be identified alleged criminals who broke into the maternity...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:53hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
No to extortion on maternal health services in council clinics
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) calls upon the Harare City Council to act decisively and stop harbouring and nurturing extortionist practices by health personnel in council clinics ag...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:47hrs | 7 | by ZUJ
Mpilo weeds out negligent staff members
MPILO Central Hospital has taken drastic measures to weed out negligence by staff members, a development that has seen over 20 workers redeployed from the maternity ward and disciplinary hearings bein...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Herd immunity Dec target unlikely to be attained
ZIMBABWE's ambitious target of attaining 60% Covid-19 herd immunity by December is in doubt, with only 15.9% of the country now fully vaccinated , three months before the government's set deadline to ...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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 | 17 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions hurting ordinary Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe has been on the receiving end of sanctions since 1966, either by the United Nations, United States, the European Union or both, thus qualifying the country for candidacy in the "sanctions ind...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Inkotha sihlangu, uMqeqenshi uMthuli Ncube uthi uMnangagwa yiNkosi yakhe!
I have always thought bootlicking is done by people with little or without education at all. To see a professor who has served in highest international institutions such as London School of Economic a...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 20:04hrs | 15 | by Nomazulu Thata
Passengers condemn police brutality
The Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) yesterday condemned continued police brutality after a video started circulating on social media on Tuesday which showed passengers, including children, st...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:21hrs | 4 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt takes delivery of 30 ambulances
Government has taken delivery of 30 new ambulances that are part of the 100 expected before year-end, as efforts are stepped up to revamp the health delivery system.The ambulances will now be ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nurses abandon clinic
VIllAGERS in Chiadzwa's Mukwada area are struggling to access medical services after nurses from a local clinic abandoned their work station two weeks ago due to unavailability of electricity....Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant nurses succumb to COVID-19
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) president Enoch Dongo has appealed for pregnant nurses to be exempted from working as COVID-19 frontline workers following increased deaths of expecting nurses a...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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