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Blantyre City Council ready to battle cholera

One person has tested negative for cholera in Blantyre after he was rushed to hospital following cholera symptoms. The rainy season is always associated with high cases of cholera in Blantyre and other...

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How To Limit Gambling Activity?

Gambling is the UK’s most popular leisure with millions loving the excitement of having a bet and seeing if their skills and luck surpass the test of the odds and win it. Although one loss is not the...

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Non Gamstop Brands: Pros & Cons

If we need to take a time off from gambling we can always resort to GamStop, the UK self-exclusion scheme. But in the given case we feel back in control of our behaviour and want to gamble again, the...

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Coronavirus vaccinations roll out around the World

After a year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, billions of people are breathing a sigh of relief as vaccine programs are rolled out around the world. While the pandemic is, sadly, still on-going, the...

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Malawi govt gets  tough with Covid-19  measures as fears grips over rising cases

The Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19  has said government will now enforce a requirement that no one is seen in public space without a face mask on and Malawi police will enforce the restrictions on...

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Where the Casinos Came From?

Casinos have a long history that dates back to ancient times. Dice was among the oldest games to be practised by the people of that time. Archaeologists have equally revealed that some prototypes of...

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Gambling therapy: How to receive help

If you have not gotten the reason behind most of the texts you find online that are related to topics on gambling, and responsible gambling, including our texts, then, you have missed the point all...

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Coronavirus affects Malawi blood recruitment drive

Coronavirus pandemic  has affected the blood donor recruitment drive which has led to the decline in blood collected across the country thereby worsening blood supply in the country’s hospitals. The...

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Kamuzu Central Hospital supplied with additional oxygen cylinders

Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) has been supplied with additional oxygen cylinders  to support in the treatment of Covid-19 patients. This follows a critical shortage of the same as most cylinders...

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Cholera hits Blantyre amid Covid-19 soaring cases

As Blantyre tops in Covid-19 infections, the commercial city has been hit by cholera as well. Officials from the district health office say a second case of cholera has been registered and it involves...

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Blantyre ‘worst hit’ by pandemic, Queen’s Hospital number of Covid patients...

Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital  (QECH)in Blantyre is overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients leading to deaths of most infected persons. Authorities at the main referral hospital in the south have since...

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Muslim Youth United raises over K5m to procure PPEs for Queen’s Hospital

Within a week after Muslim Youth United (MYU) sent out an appeal for financial support from well-wishers, the philanthropy arm of Muslims in Malawi have exceeded their target of K5 million to raise...

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Kenani’s Covid-19 initiative appeals for tax waiver on items to be bought

Social media influencer and writer Stanely Onjezani Kenani, who is leading a fundraising initiative for urgent Covid-19 relief in Malawi has applied for a Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) tax waive...

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Malawi doctors call for volunteers to support frontline health care staff

The Society of Medical Doctors (SMD) has called for volunteer health workers to  support the frontline health care staff  during this unprecedented coronavirus pandemic. The doctors made the call in a...

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Kasungu hospital run out of oxygen for Covid-19 patients, nurse dies

Kasungu district hospital  authorities have lamented that treating Covid-19 patients at the facility is now a threat because of severe oxygen shortages. The hospital spokesperson Catherine Yoweli said...

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Nkhoma Hospital sounds SOS over life-saving Covid-19 equipment

Nkhoma Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP)  run Nkhoma Hospital has sounded an SOS over lack of oxygen cylinders. The synod’s general secretary Vasco Kachipapa Gama says the...

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Galaxy Pharmaceuticals partners IMM to donate PPEs to Queen’s Hospital 

Galaxy Pharmaceuticals in partnership with Institute of Marketing in Malawi  (IMM) has donated Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs) worth K1 million  to Queen Elizabeth  Central Hospital  to assist in...

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New kidney treatment gives hope as Malawi gets concerned with dialysis...

People could avoid chronic kidney disease within a decade after Bristol University scientists found  a new genetic treatment to cure a rare disorder in mice. The scientists are hopeful that their new...

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Society of Medical Doctors appeal for  more help in Covid-19 fight

As the country’s health facilities continue to register a surge in coronavirus pandemic Society of Medical Doctors is asking for more assistance from  well-wishers to help  secure oxygen cylinders,...

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Presidential taskforce on Covid-19 warns on excessive herb taking

Presidential taskforce on Covid-19 officials are warning against excessive herb and concoction taking as remedy to covid-19, saying this can be disastrous to people’s health. Dr. John Phuka,...

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