Limbe Leaf hands over health equipment to Queens Hospital
Limbe Leaf Tobacco Company Limited Thursday handed over health equipment worth K2.2 million to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. The health equipment include two theatre trolleys, an...
View ArticleMalawi to improve level of care for fistula patients, says Muluzi
Minister of Health and population, Atupele Muluzi says government is committed to contain fistula among women and girls in the country. Visiting Fistula centre at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe on Friday,...
View ArticleMalawi women urged to encourage each other for cancer screening
First Lady Gertrude Mutharika says women should encourage each other to get cervical cancer screening at an early stage. The First Lady was speaking during a safe motherhood advocacy meeting at...
View ArticleADRA Malawi donates items to support the fight against cholera
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (Adra) Malawi has donated assorted items to Tsabango Health Centre in Lilongwe due to a cholera outbreak that has hit the area. ADRA Malawi Regional...
View ArticleMalawi cholera death toll rises: New cases in three more districts
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in the country has risen as Ministry of Health has confirmed. This follows the death of one more person on Tuesday, while 11 new cases have been recorded... The...
View ArticleMuluzi backs Malawi youth access to sexual health service
Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi has added his weight to calls to improve and expand sexual health services that respond to the needs of the youth including access to contraceptives to safeguard teen...
View ArticleExpired ARV’s flood Malawi: Two nabbed for illegal possesion of medical drugs
Malawi Police in the Eastern Region District of Balaka have arrested and are keeping in custody two men-one of them a government medical employee at Kalembo Health Centre-after being found in...
View ArticleMuluzi calls for concerted efforts to achieve Open Defecation Free status
The Minister of Health and Population Atupele Muluzi has called for concerted efforts for the country to achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. Muluzi made the call in Blantyre on Wednesday during...
View ArticleCholera cases in Nsanje rise to six
The number of Cholera cases recorded in Nsanje district has reached six barely two days after Nsanje District Health Office (DHO) confirmed two cases. Nsanje District Health Office Public Relations...
View ArticleEvangelical Association of Malawi bemoans increased teenage pregnancies
The Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) Health Commission says Malawi needs to review its strategies to arrest increasing cases of teenage pregnancies that have defied efforts and interventions to...
View ArticleMuluzi says Malawi health service helpline ‘Chipatala Cha Pa Foni’ extends...
The expansion of the Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF) into a national service will enable the rural population to access immediate and quality information on health issues, health and population minister...
View ArticleDonors hail Malawi health service helpline ‘Chipatala Cha Pa Foni’ initiative
Malawi government and two of its major bilateral donors have applauded the Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF) hotline initiative as a way to go towards achieving universal health care in the country....
View ArticleChief Njombwa drums up support for population control with family planning
A prominent traditional leader in the central region of Malawi has called on Malawians to take family planning with sheer seriousness and utter dedication in a bid to control the curb overpopulation....
View ArticleUNICEF ups cholera interventions in Lilongwe
UNICEF Malawi has intensified its response towards the rise of cholera cases in the capital Lilongwe through, among others, the provision of alternative safe water sources. Malawi has registered about...
View ArticleHospital refutes newspaper report of medical officer sexually abusing...
Dowa District Health Officer (DHO), Dr. Peter Makoza has dismissed media reports of a Senior Health Officer at Dowa District Hospital Emmanuel Chiweta has been raping pregnant women while treating...
View ArticleCatholic priest treated on sexually transmitted infection is ‘100 percent...
Mchinji district hospital has refuted reports circulating on online news outelt that one of the hospital’s clinicians, Macpherson Thole has been suspended by the District Health Officer (DHO) for...
View ArticleScabies outbreak hits Ntchisi: District health office has no medication for...
A scabies outbreak has hit some parts of of Ntchisi District have been hit by scabies, a contagious itchy skin disease, but the district’s health office does not presently have medication for the...
View ArticleMalawi safemotherhood crisis: 9 pregnant women die as 65 deliver at home in...
Despite campaigns by different stakeholders on safe motherhood initiatives, Chitipa District Council has registered 65 home deliveries and nine deaths of pregnant women in six months. Chitipa District...
View ArticleMalawi teenage girls to get HPV vaccine that guards against Cervical Cancer
Malawi girls will be required to get vaccinated against human papilloma virus (HPV) – thought to cause about 99% of cervical cancers and the jabs could save several hundred lives every year and also...
View ArticleMuluzi says Ministry of Health to extend Sadzi and Matawale health centres in...
Minister of Health and Population, Atupele Muluzi has disclosed that Sadzi and Matawale Health Centre have been earmarked for expansion as one way of improving health delivery services in the...
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