Malawi government suspends exports of medical products
Government has, with immediate effect, suspended the export of medical products as the Ministry of Health engages another gear in its preparation to battle coronavirus. This suspension comes barely a...
View ArticleMalawi govt runs out essential drugs in public hospitals
Government has run out essential drugs in most public hospitals across the country. The drugs include antibiotics and antirabies. Patients who go to public health facilities are given prescription so...
View ArticleCatholic bishop calls on govt to provide enough medicine, equipment in public...
A Catholic bishop has called on the government to provide enough medicine and health facilities in public hospitals to improve the dwindling health services. Bishop Peter Musikuwa of Chikwawa Diocese...
View ArticleHealth minister impressed with construction works of Phalombe Hospital
Minister of Health and Population, Jappie Mhango has expressed satisfaction with the construction works of a multi-million kwacha state of the art Phalombe District Hospital currently in progress. He...
View ArticleWorld Vision Malawi donates K80m supplies to Ministry of Health for Covid-19...
World Vision Malawi (WVM) has donated medical supplies and equipment worth K80 million to Ministry of Health in a drive to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country. The donated...
View ArticleLack of ventilators in Malawi will see more die to coronavirus
Malawi needs to steps up efforts to address shortage of ventilators in public hospitals —which provide roughly 80 percent of health care services in the country — due to coronavirus (Covid-19)...
View Article4th Covid-19 patient in Malawi returned from UK: Area 9 in lockdown
Minister of Health and Population Services Jappie Mhango has said the fouth coronavirus patient recorded in Malawi recently returned from UK – where four weeks after it recorded its first death from...
View ArticleMalawi Covid-19 tests are accurate, trust us – PS for health
Ministry of Health Principal Secretary Dan Namarika has assured the public that they should have trust in the medical personnel that the country has and that the texts they are carrying on coronavirus...
View ArticleMhen hails APM’s directive to employ 2 000 health workers: Malawi need govt...
In times like this coronavirus , Malawi need good government, a government that saves lives and protects the country and President Peter Mutharika has stamped its authority with is directive to...
View ArticleMinister warns coronavirus could kill 50 000 in Malawi
Public enemy coronavirus could kill about 50 000 in Malawi and the killer virus could potentially infect 85 percent of the country’s population currently at 17.5 million if Covid-19 were to hit...
View ArticleMalawi govt given 2 days to supply protective gear in hospitals or face...
Human Resources for Health (HRH) Coalition has given the Malawi government up to Friday this week to procure and supply personal protective equipment (PPE) in all public health facilities or face...
View ArticleExpert tells Malawi medics to utilize available coronavirus resources
A health expert has advised health workers to utilize fully the limited coronavirus materials and equipment the country has as the fight against the deadly disease continues. Head of Community Health...
View ArticleMalawi health workers boycott work at Queen’s Hospital, Chikwawa
Hosputal workers at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre and Chikwawa district hospital have on Tuesday been boycotting work to force the government increase their risk allowance, improve...
View ArticleHospital staff on coronavirus frontline march to DCs office over protective gear
Scores of hospital workers at Chikwawa district hospital on Wednesday marched peacefully to the office of the District Commissioner to press the government give them personal protective gear for...
View ArticleChikwawa hospital staff strike over lack of Covid-19 protective equipment
Health workers at Chikwawa District Hospital have started boycotting work, citing poor working conditions and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the wake of Coronavirus pandemic. The health...
View ArticleMinister says demands by health workers unrealistic: ‘Taking advantage of...
Minister of Health and Population, Jappie Mhango has called upon health care workers in the country not to take advantage of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic by making unrealistic financial demands....
View ArticleMalawi government recruit 755 health workers: Other interviews in District...
Ministry of Health Principal Secretary Dan Namarika has said in compliance to the Presidential Declaration to recruit 2000 health workers in response to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the...
View ArticleMalawi nurses hit back at Minister Mhango: ‘If our demands are unrealistic...
Dozens of health workers , who are on strike at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe to protest against working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, including a “critical” shortage of personal...
View ArticleMalawi govt bow down to health workers pressure: Revises upward risk allowances
Malawi government has finally bowed down to pressure from frontline health workers by revising upwards their risk allowance amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The development comes after the...
View ArticleLilongwe family, workers demand tests to ascertain coronavirus status
Some family members and workers of the man who recently died of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lilongwe are demanding that medical tests should be conducted on them to ascertain if they have...
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