Comments on: Civil society urges Malawi gov’t to reinstate tuition subsidy for nurses

By: zeze

zeze — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:06:25 +0000

who is mtafu in this article?

By: soldier pat Now you pay

soldier pat Now you pay — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:12:14 +0000

Nonse mukulimbana ndi Mtafu ndinu anthu opanda nzeru mwava,mupange nzanu

By: Nanthala

Nanthala — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:31:32 +0000

I would like to agree with what Moses has said that this was a six year emergency plan. It started in 2004 and will phase out in 2010. Development Partners pumped in funding to train the health workers. Its not that government budget has not been funded.

Ngoma as an activist she should have known about this arrangement and the decision made by government than giving false hopes. Government will only come up with a decision when the final evaluation report will be out i.e. maybe 2010 or 2011.

What we should all know is that before 2004 students were paying for their training.

By: chiku

chiku — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:29:17 +0000

kunena zowona cham trains 70% of nurses in malawi while government cater for the remaining figure then stopping funding CHAM is a risk to our health delivery system and really government should reverse its decission if it is really alisterning government………viva NONM PATSOGOLO ANAMWINO PATSOGOLO NDI AZAMBA AS WE SOLEMLY PLEDGE OURSELVES TO HUMANITY

By: moses

moses — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:51:48 +0000

The decision to stop funding cham is a policy decision. In the health sector we had what we called thee emergency human resource plan which was meant to last for 6 years now the time for that has elapsed.
The cham facilities are unrealistic its more expensive to train nurses with them than with the unima and yet moh does not support unima train doctors and nurses

By: H1N1

H1N1 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:19:11 +0000

Hibernian Boy, what you are doing to is like trying to explain that the earth revolves around the sun to a stone age man. These ppl cant understand the delicate balance between professionalism and politics when you are at the top but nice try though.
Now talking about Dorothy Ng’oma as person, I think she is a self centred gluton who has overstayed her welcome as the nurses to-dog in the country!

By: mpoto

mpoto — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:17:13 +0000

waza waza waza

By: FUTUTU

FUTUTU — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:12:09 +0000

Ha!! iwe, Mtafu is just following ‘doctors’ around at Mwaiwathu as an intern. You think he can handle a scapel. He aint no asset to the nation he is a liability. Who goes to Mwaiwathu these days anyway? To die?

By: Hibernian Boy

Hibernian Boy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:50:59 +0000

Malawi has a great shortage of nurse midwifes, this is a wrong decision that must be challenged.

Why attack Dorothy Ng’oma, it is not her to blame for the cuts in this budget.

She was correct to praise Bingu in that over the past year there had been noticable improvements in Malawian health care, particularly under the previous health minister. But when something is wrong she should also speak out.

Of course she must be political. She leads the nurses trade union and professional body and has to engage in the political process.

The decision to cut funding to Cham schools is a politcal decision and needs to be challenged at a political level.

By: Mavunika Thindwa

Mavunika Thindwa — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:57:49 +0000

You see a Malawi, praise singing never took anybody far! A Ngoma mukuganiza kuti simveka zimezi mukupemphazi? You are looking at development conscious ideas from above. So don’t cry!!!