Malawi commemorates 2016 World Breast Feeding Week
Malawi on Monday joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Breastfeeding Week in Ntchisi. The occasion was graced by Minister of Health Dr Peter Kumpalume and some notable members of the...
View ArticleChristian Health Association of Malawi to offe free maternal services in...
Salima district health office (DHO) public relations officer Angela Nyongani has commended efforts by the Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) and other stakeholders for agreeing with...
View ArticleCholera disturb Mary’s Meals school feeding program in Karonga: Malawi...
Mary’s Meals one of the organizations dealing with school feeding programs in Malawi has disclosed that it has lost its 2015 to 2016 last term resources in Karonga due to cholera disease which led...
View ArticleMalawi to be Trachoma free by 2020
Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed that Malawi will totally eliminate Trachoma, a dangerous eye infection by 2020 if communities under medication and supervision adhere to medical precautions and...
View ArticleMzuzu MBTS’s Club 25 urges youths to donate blood
Malawi Blood Transfusion Services (MBTS) has expressed the need for youths in the country to continue donating blood, saying the country’s hospitals continue experiencing persistent blood shortage....
View ArticleSouth Africa envoy to Malawi celebrates women’s day in style, donates to...
The South African High Commission Office in Malawi has reiterated the need for Malawi to continue to promote women in all sectors of the society. Her Excellency Cassandra Mbuyane-Mokone, South African...
View ArticleMalawi Youth Dream calls for support on vulnerable persons: Donate to Kachere
One of the philanthropists in the country, Lewis Kamundi who is also Executive Director of Malawi Youth Dream (MYD) has underscored the need for the country to strive at efforts that would alleviate...
View ArticleUS ambassador in Malawi swears in Peace corps GHSP volunteers
United States of America (USA) Ambassador Virginia Palmer on Wednesday swore in 15 Peace Corp Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) volunteers. The ceremony, which took place at Palmer’s residence...
View ArticleHarmonized Early Childhood Development services, a right to children
Mulanje district social welfare department has underscored the need for coordinated and harmonized Early Childhood Development systems if the future of children in the district is to be kept in shape....
View ArticleWashing machine stolen at Queen’s Hospital
Malawi Police are investigating the theft of a washing machine from Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyte. The machine was taken out of the hospital on a pretext that it was going for repairs...
View ArticleMalawi hospital refuses to admit TB patients due to lack of food
Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe is refusing to admit patients suffering from TB because the hospital stopped providing food to patients for over a month now. A source at the hospital said even serious TB...
View ArticleDrones for infant diagnosis pilot project on course
Malawi government says a project on the use of drones to increase the test of infants on HIV and AIDS is on course. Health ministry spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said although the project rolled out...
View ArticleBeautify Malawi donates medical suppliers to Chatinkha at Queen’s Hospital
Beautify Malawi (BEAM) Trust has donated medical supplies worthy K5 million and cash amounting K500, 000 to Gogo Chatinkha Maternity Unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre to help...
View ArticleFour arrested over theft of Queen’s Hospital washing machine remanded at...
Four suspects arrested over theft of a washing machine from Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyte have been remanded to Chichiri Prison after being formally charged at Blantyre Magistrate...
View ArticleAirtel donates K5.5mil towards Nation publications charity fun run: To help...
Airtel Malawi has donated K5.5million towards towards a mothers’ day fun run organised by Nation Publication Limited (NPL). This year’s Mother’s Day Fun Run is aimed at improving safe motherhood in...
View ArticleUS funds for fighting Aids in Malawi ‘Cashgated’: America demand pay back
National Audit Office (NAO) audit has revealed that donor money amounting to K925, 918, 030.14 were looted from the health ministry’s finance, human resources and HIV and AIDS department. The auditors...
View ArticleMuslim NGO rescues communities in Mangochi
Water challenges will now remain history for communities of Traditional Authority (T/A) Chowe in Mangochi, thanks to Benaa Association for Culture and Development, a Muslim Non-Governmental...
View ArticleU.S. govt Malaria hotline leads to joint Police action in Malawi
This week, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Global Fund Inspector General, Anti-Corruption Bureau and Malawi Police took joint action to secure evidence of theft, diversion,...
View ArticleCoalition highlights major gaps in new Termination of Pregnancy Bill
The Coalition for the Prevention of Unsafe Abortion (Copua) said the proposed Termination of Pregnancy Bill contains some gaps which need to be addressed before Parliament endorses it. Malawi...
View ArticleMzuzu Rotary club in blood donation drive
Mzuzu Rotary Club members on Saturday donated blood to Malawi Blood Transfusion Services (MBTS) in a drive to avert shortage of blood in hospitals at a time when most students were on holiday. The...
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