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Is this health justice or state overreach?
In the swiftly evolving drama of Zimbabwean healthcare, a new bill in Parliament has stirred both hope and alarm. The Medical Services Amendment Bill, championed by Justice and Parliamentary Affairs M...Published: 18 hrs ago | 174 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Private hospitals to treat emergency cases regardless of payment
New legislation tabled in Parliament seeks to compel private hospitals to admit patients with life-threatening conditions for at least 48 hours-even if they cannot afford the services.The Medi...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 20:57hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt moves to regulate private health fees
Private health institutions in Zimbabwe will no longer be allowed to arbitrarily increase their fees or impose charges beyond government-prescribed limits without prior approval from the Minister of H...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 19:10hrs | 571 | 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 con...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 08:46hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Public hospitals now death traps, says residents
Residents in Bulawayo have expressed growing frustration with the deteriorating state of service delivery at government hospitals, citing long delays, misdiagnoses, and a rising wave of corrupt practi...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:57hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo cancer, kidney patients stranded
Cancer and kidney patients in the Matabeleland region are facing dire circumstances due to malfunctioning critical treatment machines at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, as revealed by an investiga...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 06:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to medicinal herbs
PEOPLE are flooding traditional herbal markets, as prices of prescription drugs spike and the public health delivery system deteriorates at an alarming rate under pressures from a relentless economic ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 18:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo MRI scan takes first patients
IN 2020, Thamsanqa Nyathi (15) developed sudden headaches, which were diagnosed as a brain tumour, a condition that brought serious changes to his life. He went for surgery that same year to a...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions to blame for drug shortages in Zimbabwe'
The prevailing shortages of essential medicines in Zimbabwe's major hospitals is a result of economic sanctions imposed on the country by the US, Britain and their western allies, Leader of Government...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 04:47hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secure cancer treatment machines
The GOVERNMENT has purchased a set of new advanced radiotherapy machines used to treat cancer, which will soon be installed at two major public hospitals.Funding has also been secured to procu...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:40hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Stroke victims suffering in silence'
STROKE survivors are calling on government to recognise the condition as life-threatening so that necessary interventions are put in place.A stroke is a medical condition when blood supply to ...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
United Bulawayo Hospitals makes history with hip surgeries
UNITED Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) made history last week when it became one of the few health institutions in the country to offer hip surgeries with more than 20 patients registering for the proc...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt charms war collaborators ahead of 2023 general elections
GOVERNMENT has been frantically charming war veterans, ex-political prisoners, detainees, restrictees, non-combatant cadres and war collaborators by increasing pensions ahead of polls later this year,...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group flags doctors for double dipping, shortchanging patients
Kwekwe based pressure group, Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has called on authorities to step in and stop some public hospital doctors from shortchanging poor citizens through spend...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 17:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is doing nothing, I'm doing his job' - SA health minister in new rant
A new video has emerged of South Africa's health minister for Limpopo province railing at the Zimbabwe government for presiding over a failing health system.Dr Phophi Ramathuba complains that ...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt must fix healthcare system
THE Zimbabwean government has been challenged to fix the country's ailing healthcare system, which has forced citizens to cross the border to neighbouring South Africa to access better health services...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Phophi slams Mnangagwa's allies for seeking private hospitals in South Africa
Under fire MEC for Health in Limpopo, Phophi Ramathuba has defended her fierce rants at a Zimbabwean patient and further slammed Zimbabwe government officials for brazen free spending on their own tre...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt officials should first declare assets
BEFORE Finance minister Mthuli Ncube asks us to declare where our foreign currency is coming from when we bring in foodstuffs and household goods from outside the country, the leadership of Zimbabwe s...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:29hrs | 6 | by Concerned
Govt moves to control private hospitals
GOVERNMENT has moved in to control the operations of private hospitals, including setting service charges after gazetting the Medical Services Amendment Bill.The Bill gives the Health and Chil...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 15 | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga encourages the health sector to collaborate in procurement of meds
VICE-President and Minister of Health and Child Care Retired General Dr Costantino Chiwenga has challenged players in the health sector to collaborate in the procurement of medical consumables and equ...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:55hrs | 43 | by Staff Reporter
Patients stranded as murse strike bites
THE ongoing public health professionals' strike that has crippled major government hospitals is continuing unabated until the demands of the workers have been met, leaving many patients stranded....Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vaccination blitz: Zimbabwe reaches 10m dose mark
ZIMBABWE has now administered 10 million jabs of Covid-19 vaccines with more than half the targeted population aged 12 and over now having had their first dose, a pair of major milestones in the natio...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans bemoan shrinking democratic space, human rights abuses
ORDINARY Zimbabweans and observers have bemoaned the shrinking democratic space, human rights abuses and economic meltdown as the country celebrates 42 years of independence today.This year's ...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe kidney patients red-flag high dialysis costs
KIDNEY patients continue facing challenges such as the high cost of treatment despite many interventions made by non-governmental organisations to reduce the costs of dialysis.Speaking to News...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA claim being denied health care
HUMAN rights organisations are concerned about policy changes affecting immigrants since the Gauteng health department gazetted them in June last year and issued a circular in May 2020.Accordi...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 18:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ivermectin okayed for Covid-19 treatment
Three private hospitals and three private pharmacies have been allowed by the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe to prescribe Ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 but only in r...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination rates continue to dwindle
While the third wave of Covid-19 infection continues to trickle down to just 4,8 percent of its mid-July peak, the vaccination rate is also continuing to slow with 286 134 jabs given last week between...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shocking bills for Covid-19 patients
Most private hospitals offering Covid-19 treatment are turning the pandemic into an economic and psychological nightmare for patients, with some of the institutions charging admission fees of up to US...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets herd immunity by year-end
The government has further intensified the vaccination of citizens against the Covid-19 pandemic targeting to reach the 60 percent herd immunity at a time when cumulative infections stand at over 100 ...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Top doctor comes up with 'must-have' Covid-19 cocktail to reduce severe illness
As the Health Ministry is overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients requiring admission in public health and private hospitals, a leading medical practitioner F Mamvura has come up with a proposal termed The...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends Covid-19 vaccination to private sector
Health experts have welcomed the move by the government to extend the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to the private sector saying it would speed up the uptake of the vaccine.As part of the cond...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 17:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya clashes with World Bank
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya yesterday clashed with the World Bank representatives as he vehemently disputed their projected annual inflation rate.This played out at t...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Cimas Medlabs passes Africa CDC testing audit with highest rating
Cimas Medical Laboratories (Medlabs) Covid-19 Laboratory Testing has been certified and awarded five stars, the highest possible rating, by the Africa Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), resulting...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 13:08hrs | 4 | by Agencies
'Doctors Using Fake Referrals To Lure Patients'
LOCAL anti-corruption body, Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has accused doctors employed in public hospitals of making unnecessary and illegal referrals to woe desperate patients to their pr...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe private hospitals not reporting Covid-19 stats
SOME private and public hospitals in the country have been accused of not providing the Government with Covid-19 statistics, a move that the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on health described as sc...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Public hospitals can cope with Covid-19 load'
Public hospitals can handle the Covid-19 case-load for free and there is no need for anyone to pay exorbitant fees demanded by private providers for Covid-19 testing and treatment. Responding ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ndavaningi Mangwana must just resign
IT is sad that Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana has decided to hide from the truth that our health sector is in the intensive care unit, therefore, it can no longer assist people.Zanu...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Ranga Chitore
Furore over govt claims of killer doctors
DOCTORS yesterday reacted with alarm and anger over allegations by Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana that some medical practitioners were deliberately killing Zanu-PF politicians and hiding be...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister says, 'this is war' as coronavirus runs amok
ACTING Information minister, Jenfan Muswere, yesterday likened Zimbabwe's raging and deadlier second wave coronavirus storm as a war — amid the country's soaring deaths and infections.Speaki...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 18:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, Covid-19 patients told to buy their own ventilators
Zimbabwe shows what happens when the coronavirus collides with one of the world's most run-down health systems.Nurses at a major public hospital in the capital are on strike after colleagues d...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Covid strikes Mnangagwa's VPs, cabinet ministers
THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records 155 COVID-19 cumulative deaths
BULAWAYO metropolitan province has so far recorded a cumulative 155 deaths and 4 368 infections of the deadly COV-ID-19 virus. This comes on the backdrop of the country having recorded an unpr...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns social media users
Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga has denied claims the country's hospitals are overwhelmed amid a surge in Covid-19 cases and face a critical shortage of beds and equipment....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 19:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses down injections and thermometers
NURSES at major public hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo downed tools yesterday for fear of contracting the deadly COVID-19 virus after being forced to work without personal protective equipment (PPE)....Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals buckle under Covid-19 strain
Hospitals in Zimbabwe are reeling from a renewed surge in the coronavirus, with a shortage of beds and equipment threatening to overwhelm the public health system.The Health Ministry on Tuesda...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 certificates in school not necessary: Govt
GOVERNMENT has said Covid-19 certificates that were being demanded by schools are not necessary as learners will be screened for the pandemic upon returning to school. Some schools were demand...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 3 | 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 | 12 | by Jeffrey Moyo
Mnangagwa told to cut military expenditure
CHIREDZI residents last week called on government to reduce military expenditure in the 2021 national budget and channel more resources towards social services.The residents were speaking duri...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Foreign medical treatments gobble $400m annually'
Health minister Obadiah Moyo has disclosed that the country is losing about $400 million annually on overseas medical treatments.Moyo made the disclosure in Nyanga, while officially opening th...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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