Zomba Malosa St Luke’s Hospital now has new theatre, modern mortuary
As one way to enhance health service delivery in the Anglican diocese of Upper Shire health systems, the diocese has constructed a K114 million operating theatre and a K35 Million mortuary at Zomba...
View ArticleMalawi gets Coronavirus second wave warning
Malawians have been warned to be very cautious in observing Covid-19 preventive measures to avoid falling into second wave of the pandemic. Dean of Public Health and Family Medicine and Co-Chairperson...
View ArticleNICO supports completion of GAIA’s mobile health clinic operation centre in...
NICO Life and NICO Pension jointly donated K1.8 million to Global Health Interfaith Alliance (GAIA) for the completion of the construction of a new mobile clinic operation centre based at Chikuse...
View ArticlePMI to contribute additional funding to support Medicago’s efforts to develop...
Philip Morris International (PMI) has announced that it is set to contribute additional funding to support biopharmaceutical company, Medicago to supply up to 76 million doses of its plant-derived...
View ArticleCan tech offer a solution to Africa’s mental health crisis?
In October 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report on the impact of Covid-19 on access to mental health services across Africa, and the figures are distressing. WHO surveyed 28...
View ArticleMinistry of Health loses vital management data
The Ministry of Health has lost important database that was collected since March this year after the server for the Health Management Information System (HMIS) crashed. A notice from Secretary of...
View ArticleOxfam Malawi project seeks to improve nutrition
Oxfam Malawi has said investment in nutrition was still a small portion of overall domestic budgets. The organisation’s livelihoods resilience programme manager Oxfam Malawi Steve Kuliyazi said this...
View ArticleNGOs in health sector asked to promote female condoms
M’mbelwa District Council has asked players in sexual and reproductive health rights programs in the district to promote use of female condoms regardless of low uptake of the product. Principal...
View ArticleMalawi Cancer Centre gets Israel support -Mkaka
Israel has made a commitment to support Malawi’s efforts in developing its first specialised cancer centre at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. Minister of Foreign Affairs Eisenhower Mkaka disclosed...
View ArticleAfrica’s mental health crisis can be aided with the help of exercise
As Africa assesses the benefits of modern technology in combatting mental health, more and more people around the globe are struggling. In fact, it has been an ongoing issue for some time now, with...
View ArticleFirst Lady donates 50 000 face masks to Nkhata Bay Hospital
First Lady, Madam Monica Chakwera, through her charity organisation ‘Shaping our Future Foundation’ on Monday donated 50,000 face masks to Nkhata Bay District Hospital and its health centres to...
View ArticleFamily Planning Association of Malawi for new youth strategic plan
The Directorate of Reproductive Health (RHD) in partnership with Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM) and youth organisations said the implementation of their 2015 to 2020 strategic plan has...
View ArticleMachinga lags behind on sexual and reproductive health
Machinga District director of health and social services Arnold Kapachika says the district is struggling on sexual and reproductive health indictors. Speaking during Family Planning Association...
View ArticleKamuzu Hospital dialysis unit ‘shuts down’: Kidney patients moved to Queen’s...
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has shut down its dialysis unit because its machines are not functioning, putting lives of patients with renal failure and other kidney problems at risk....
View ArticleWorld Diabetes Day: Muslim youth to offer free testing during Sunday’s blood...
Muslim Youth United (MYU) will offer free testing for diabetes during is annual Blood Donation Camp it has organised on Sunday as part of observing the World Diabetes Day that falls today, November 14....
View ArticleNever share your prescribed antibiotics with others—Doctor
November 18-24 is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW), set aside by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best...
View ArticleChilima says Covid exposed Malawi’s huge deficit in epidemiological...
Vice-President Saulos Chilima has said the Covid-19 has exposed Malawi’s huge deficit in epidemiological modelling as the Ministry of Health’s Kuunika modeling projected the potential impact of the...
View ArticleKCH get medical tools boost by Lilongwe Rotary Club
In a bid to alleviate some problems facing the health sector in the country, Lilongwe Rotary club in conjunction with UK-based, York Rotary club has made a donation of various medical tools at Kamuzu...
View ArticleDowa reports no Covid-19 cases for 32 days
One of Malawi’s coronavirus hot spot of Dowa district reported zero COVID-19 cases for 32 days, the District Health Office has confirmed. The District Health Office Medical Officer, Dr. Jacqueline...
View ArticleMalawi registering 33 000 new HIV cases annually: UNAIDS says new infections...
Malawi is registering 33,000 new HIV and Aids infections annually, a development that threatens the country’s aspiration to achieve the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) 95:95:95...
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