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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
Court still withholding transcript in Ken Sharpe witness case
The Harare Magistrate Court still has not released the transcript of its ruling on 18 November denying bail to the former City of Harare chief building in...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:02hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Parirenyatwa in fresh negligence storm
PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals has come under the spotlight for negligence following the death of Joyce Chabvura of Mt Darwin after the medical facility reportedly refused to operate on her broken le...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans abroad face difficulties with accent
Speakers with foreign accents can face discrimination even in a country with a diverse population and a long immigrant history. But much remains to be done. "We're going to increasingly be exposed to ...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 08:31hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Ndebeles are dull thats why there are no medical schools in Matabeleland
Are Matabeles really dull as we are told every day by Shona supremacist? That is wogwash. Anyone who believes this would believe that Emmerson Mnangagwa is a saint.In our last two articles we ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 13:48hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
National Disability Expo reveals government and CSOs' short comings
Addressing the NANGO Eastern Region disability sector that attended the 6th edition of the National Disability Expo, Special Advisor to the President on Disability Issues, Joshua Malinga called on civ...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 10:55hrs | | by Nango
Why Mashonaland parties must not be voted in Mthwakazi
During the so called 2018 water shed elections, the pro Mthwakazi people must exercise their wisdom in shutting out the Mashonaland parties chief among them being ZANU PF, MDC T and the Mujuru party a...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Hloniphani Ncube
Is Mugabe no longer rigging elections? - MDC legislator
Former MDC-T Bulilima East legislator Norman Mpofu has expressed concerns as to why the opposition MDC-T resorted to letting the ruling Zanu PF, its enemy, to get access into its strongholds by boycot...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 08:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Nearly died, doctor prescribed wrong medication'
Dear Editor Wrong Treatment: Some time ago I consulted a medical Dr with what I thought was a simple ailment. A week on taking his prescribed dr...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Concerned Citizen
Mugabe led govt out of touch with development related issues Mthwakazi
The Mthwakazi Republic Party internal Institute of Research have established that the President Robert Mugabe led government does not have an understanding of what development issues entails.P...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 06:08hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Doctor sued over wrong medication
A PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS)-run hospital and one of its doctors have been sued for $120,000 for administering wrong treatment on a five-year-old girl causing chronic foot and leg ulc...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
'Nurse' kills patient
A treatment process went terribly wrong when a bogus nurse administered an unknown drug to a Sakubva woman who later died.So severe was the drug that it resulted in the woman feeling numb before dying...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 12:05hrs | | by Tinashe Hazvide and Tendai Gukutikwa
ZimAsset just a 'pie in the sky'
HARARE - Exactly a year after the 2013 harmonised elections which were controversially won by Zanu PF, Zimbabweans are now worse off than they were before the polls.Analysts say the much...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean born hip hop star making waves abroad - Video
Zimbabwean born Lawrence Sean Sibanda, also known as Dragg, or Sean S, is making waves in the United Kingdom.Dragg is an up and coming hip hop/rap artist based in Kingston Upon Hull UK si...Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman fights for life after being given wrong medication
A MUTARE woman is in a serious medical condition after she was allegedly put on tuberculosis treatment, yet she was suffering from a different ailment altogether. The medical boob follows a recent one...Published: 23 May 2013 at 03:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
ARVs risk alert for Zimbabwe users
THE lives of children on anti-retroviral therapy in Murambinda are at high risk after revelations that some of the drugs supplied by MSF-Belgium were crushed, resulting in some of them taking either a...Published: 18 Sep 2012 at 22:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman given contraceptives and mental illness pills for breast cancer
A LIMPOPO woman got the shock of her life when she discovered that for more than three years she had been using wrong medication for breast cancer.Marubini Flora Makumbe, 56, from Nngwekhulu v...Published: 20 Aug 2012 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
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