Kamuzu Central Hospital gets K3bn operation theatre
Malawi’s largest referral hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital has received a K3 billion operation theatre, the first of its kind in the country as for the first time the hospital will have separate...
View ArticleMalawi youth want an impact review on management and implementation of...
Youth leaders from different districts in Malawi have demanded that the Global Fund Country Coordinating Committee (GF-CCM) should review the impact of the current arrangement for the management and...
View ArticleTay Grin named ambassador for Operation Smile Malawi
Malawi’s rapper Limbani Kalilani better known as Tay Grin has embraced a new role as ambassador for Operation Smile Malawi (OSM), an organisation that helps provide surgical services to children with...
View ArticleStandard Bank Malawi staff supports Operation Smile’s volunteers: Donates K4...
A team of Standard Bank employees last week spared time to join Operations Smile’s volunteers carry out surgery of facial and dental clefts at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. A team of local and...
View ArticleMuluzi opens 6 new modern surgical theatres at KCH: ‘Malawi govt to take good...
Ministry of Health and Population on Monday opened six newly constructed operating theaters at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) worth K 2.8 billion from Norwegian Church Aid (NCA). Speaking during the...
View ArticleMinistry of Health intensifies TB screening initiative
Malawi’s Ministry of Health (MoH), under the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP), has procured state-of-the-art mobile van clinics in a bid to intensify it’s strategic plan to reassess active cases of...
View ArticleRotavirus vaccine cuts infant diarrhoea deaths by 34% in rural Malawi –Study
A major new study has shown that rotavirus vaccination reduced infant diarrhea deaths by 34% in Mchinji a central region distrct bordering with Zambia with high levels of child deaths. The study led...
View ArticleNew behaviour change group for restoration of young people’s lives in Lilongwe
Hope Counseling and Resource Center, a social interaction and behaviour change organization based in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe, is helping to reshape young people aged between 10 and 24, restoring hope...
View ArticleMuluzi hails UK for funding sexual health services in Malawi: K47.bn ‘Tsogolo...
The United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development’s (DFID) has announced a £50.1 million (about K47.5 billion) six year family planning programmes in Malawi under the ‘Tsogolo Langa’...
View ArticleWaterAid Malawi director joins NPL’s Mothers Day Spleepover Challenge
Mercy Masoo Country Director for WaterAid Malawi, a non-govermental organisation, will from Thursday, August 18 be part of what several high profile women corporate executives have already done by...
View ArticleKyungu commends Karonga District Hospital staff for saving lives
Paramount Chief Kyungu of Chitipa and Karonga has commended Karonga District Hospital staff for their expertise in saving lives of people who suffered serious injuries in a bus accident on Tuesday....
View ArticleKachere Rehabilitation Centre in dire need of an extra ward
Being the only public facility that offers physiotherapy treatment in the country, the wards for Malawi Against Physical Disabilities’ Kachere Rehabilitation Centre in Blantyre are overcrowded and...
View ArticleMedi Care Clinic gets genset boost from S.F International
In its continued pursuit towards contributing to the socio-economic development of the country, S. F International has donated a generator to Medi Care Clinic which is expected to improve the delivery...
View ArticleNGO sensitises Malawi women to cancer
Hope for Cancer Foundation (Hocaf) on Sunday equipped Women’s Guild members from four Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Nkhoma Synod congregations in Lilongwe on how to detect breast and...
View ArticleMinister Muluzi says K5bn set aside for recruitment of medical personnel:...
Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi has said government has set aside K5 billion for the recruitment of additional medical personnel in public health facilities in the country this year and that they...
View ArticleMalawi’s disease burden, govt dealing with a health crisis: Minister Muluzi...
Minister of Health and Population, Atupele Muluzi said his ministry was aware of the rise in non-communicable diseases in the country when he launched Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries (NCDI) and...
View ArticleNGO constructs cervical cancer screening unit at Nasawa Health Centre
Nasawa Trust, a Malawian NGO operating in the area of Traditional Authority M’biza in Zomba District of Southern Malawi, has constructed a cervical cancer screening unit at Nasawa Health Centre to...
View ArticleMzuzu Central Hospital gets new medical equipement: Muluzi says Malawi govt...
Minister of Health and Population, Atupele Muluzi has said government will soon develop medical equipment maintenance plan to ensure that the equipment is always up-to date and lasts long, thereby...
View ArticleMalawi could treat most medical referral cases no need to go to India — High...
Indian High Commissioner to Malawi, Suresh Kumar Menon said 40 per cent of Malawian patients sent for treatment in India would have been treated in the country if the public hospitals had adequate...
View ArticleMental illness worsens in Malawi due to drug and alcohol abuse among youth
Ombudsman Martha Chizuma Mwangonde has made a frantic plea to National Assembly to increase a budget to mental health department from the current one per cent to five per cent of the health national...
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