Two Malawian trainee surgeons Takondwa Itaye-Kamangira and Wone Banda who work at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi but currently in Scotland for training, are joining a number of their Scots colleagues in a...
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Blantyre City Mayor, Noel Chalamanda has urged the College of Medicine to be visible in the communities around Blantyre. Chalamanda said this on Tuesday in Blantyre during a COM partner’s day organized by the College...
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Minister of Health, Dr Peter Kumpalume has hailed the Results Based Financing (RBF) maternal health project for enabling mothers access safe and good services at hospitals thereby reducing maternal mortality. The project among other things,...
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First Lady Gertrude Mutharika has called for concerted efforts to empower women with knowledge and skills to protect themselves against cervical cancer. Madam Mutharika said efforts must be made to increase screening opportunities, early diagnosis and ensuring that...
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People of Nsanje are up in arms against officials from Nsanje District Hospitals for allegedly charging for health services. Some people from Nsanje and Chikhwawa said the situation is very critical when they are referred...
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Treasury and ministry of health officials have been engaged in verbal war over hospital funding as the state of economy continues to tilt badly. Health ministry spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said Treasury funding is too low...
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The Sugar Company of Malawi (SUCOMA) Sacco Friday donated assorted medical supplies to St Montfort Hospital in Chikwawa to help promote good service delivery at the health institution. The intervention comes at a time when...
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Health minister Peter Kumpalume has asked more Malawians to embrace the culture of blood donations following fatal accidents on the roads. Kumpalume said this on Tuesday when he visited 40 accident patients at Mzuzu Central...
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On of the visiting Norwich Members of Parliament (MP) Haidi Lunde has louded Family Planning Associationb of Malawi (FPAM) youths who are operating under the Nzotheka Project for taking a strong stand in the fight...
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In its efforts to support governments efforts of transformingthe country from predominantly importing to producing and exporting nation, local herbalmanufacturer Teras Health Care has disclosed plans to open shops in different countries across Africa and...
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Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) has urged the government to speed up with alternative source of energy in order to avoid loss of lives in country’s hospitalsn with the continued blackouts which are affecting health...
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Government has rolled out a cholera vaccination in lakeshore areas as way of combating the killer disease. Health ministry spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said people in lakeshore areas of Karonga, Nkhata Bay, Zomba, Mangochi, Salima among...
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Workers at St John’s Hospital in Malawi’s northern city of Mzuzuh are on strike to protest against the decision by management not to renew the contract of the only doctor at the institution. Some of...
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Mzimba South District Health Office has registered a decrease in neonatal deaths following an increase of monthly funding from MK15.7 Million to MK21.2million courtesy of Mamaye advocacy project. Recently, the Mamaye study in Mzimba South...
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The country’s health is in crisis as evidenced by the death of eight patients due to blackouts at two of the country’s referral hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH). Malawi...
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In its continued efforts to assist government in provision of quality health services, Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL), the major fuel importer for Malawi has donated medical equipment to Mulanje District Hospitalworth K5 million. Speaking during...
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United Nations Populations Fund Country representative Dr Dan Odallo, has expressed concern over high HIV prevalence rate among sex workers in Malawi. Odallo was speaking in Lilongwe during the one day workshop on sex workers...
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The First Lady, Madam Gertrude Mutharika on Monday expressed concern over the sharp rise in incidences of cancer in Malawi. “Cases of cancer in Malawi are growing at alarming rates,” Madam Mutharika said when she...
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A decision by seven young Malawians to walk for 362 km from Lilongwe to Blantyre to raise funds for a new pediatric High Dependency Unit at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe has finally turned into...
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Malawian First Lady, Madam Gertrude Mutharika on Wednesday called for support to the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA). Madam Mutharika was speaking at a high level meeting held on the...
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