Ministry of Health overwhelmed with turn up for Covid-19 vaccine
Officials from the Ministry of Health say they are now overwhelmed with the turn up for Covid-19 vaccine across the country. Deputy Director of Clinical Services in the Ministry of Health Dr Kaponda...
View ArticlePictorial: Unicef donates ambulance boats to Malawi
Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda last Wednesday)received four ambulance boats on behalf of government from Unicef worth over K350 million to promote vaccination among children in hard to...
View ArticleFresenius Medicare Care under fire in Malawi for corrupt practices towards...
South African-based firm, Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) has come under heavy fire from Malawians for their intended hostile takeover of the management of dialysis machines and units in the country....
View ArticleChiradzulu Hospital theatre staff were using a fan during surgery: NBM...
National Bank (NBM) Capital Markets, a subsidiary of National Bank of Malawi, have done to the rescue of Chiradzulu District Hospital by donating an air conditioning machine for its surgical theatre....
View ArticleNBS Bank donates 20 computers for Covid-19 call centre
NBS Bank plc has donated 20 computers worth K14 million to the Ministry of Health to support its Covid-19 Response Call Centre. Presenting the computers in Lilongwe on Monday, NBS Bank Head of...
View ArticleGovt rules out giving Covid-19 vaccine to under age
Government has ruled out giving covid-19 vaccine to those under the age of 18. No reasons have been given but in a statement, the government says no school children under the age of 18 will receive the...
View ArticleEthCo donates K13 million Covid-19 items to Nkhotakota, Salima Hospitals
Ethanol distiller Ethanol Company (EthCo) Friday donated various items worth K13 million to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic to Nkhota-Kota and Salima District Hospitals. EthCo Chief Executive Officer...
View ArticleChakwera to lead in getting first jab of Covid vaccines: Malawi journalists...
President Lazarus Chakwera will be the first to take the dose of the coronavirus vaccine with First Lady Monica Chakwera as the government will roll out vaccination drive in Zomba, government has...
View ArticleMalawian official elected into African public health risk communication...
Ministry of Health’s Acting deputy director of Preventive Health Services for Health Education Services, Mavuto Thomas , has been elected as a representative for southern African countries in a...
View ArticleK60m utility debts cripple operations at Chikwawa Hospital
Operations at Chikwawa District Hospital have been crippled by huge utility debts amounting to over K60 million. The District’s Director of Health and Social Services (DHSS) Dr Stalin Nzikanda told...
View ArticleHRDC cautions Malawi govt over ‘corrupt’ dialysis clinic operator Fresenius...
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has said the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) should investigate a dialysis clinic operator Fresenius Medical Care over allegations that the company paid bribes to...
View ArticleThyolo Hospital commission Highly Dependent Unit
Thyolo District Hospital on Thursday commissioned the first ever Highly Dependent Unit (HDU) that now enables the hospital to admit critical patients who in the past were being referred to Queen...
View ArticleChiponda commissions a gas plant at Kamuzu Central Hospital
Minister of Health, Khumbize Chiponda has said the commissioning of a gas plant at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe will help reduce deaths because KCH and surrounding hospitals will have...
View ArticleChilima for timely Mponela hospital
Vice-President Saulos Chilima on Friday inspected the construction of Mponela Rural Community Hospital in Dowa, to appreciate progress on the project. He was accompanied by the Minister of Health...
View ArticleCT scanning boost for Queen’s Hospital after 8 years: Minister Chiponda...
Minister of Health Khumbize Chiponda has commissioned a life-saving equipment called computerized tomography (CT) scan machine at the country’s biggest referral facility Queen Elizabeth Central...
View ArticleOver 2m Malawi children to receive Vitamin A supplementation: Minister...
A total of 1,985,000 children in the country are expected to be reached with Vitamin A supplementation, Minister of Health, Khumbize Chiponda has disclosed. The Minister said this in Lilongwe on Monday...
View ArticleMzimba hospital operate without x-ray machine for 3 months
Patients in need of X-ray services at Mzimba District Hospital have expressed concern over faulty machine at the health facility saying its expensive travelling to Mzuzu Central Hospital to access the...
View ArticleIsrael medical team to offer support to Malawi Cancer Centre, donate Covid-19...
A delegation of five medical doctors from Israel is in the country to assess the National Cancer Centre where they will offer support and Monday met the Minister of Health and officials at Capital...
View ArticleKamuzu Hospital dialysis unit ‘shuts down’: Kidney patients moved to Queen’s...
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has shut down its dialysis unit because its machines are not functioning, putting lives of patients with renal failure and other kidney problems at risk....
View ArticleMinistry of Health loses vital management data
The Ministry of Health has lost important database that was collected since March this year after the server for the Health Management Information System (HMIS) crashed. A notice from Secretary of...
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