Plans are underway for Malawi’s Ministry of Health to open the first ever cardiac center in the country at the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in the capital, Lilongwe. Government says once operational, the center, which is now at conceptualization stage, will save millions of Kwacha it spends on sending patients with heart problems to foreign […]
The Malawi High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Bernard Sande has commended the Malawi Healthcare Support (MAHECAS) for the humanitarian support it renders to the people of Malawi. Sande said this in Essex when he presided over fundraising dinner dance in aid of refurbishment of a Dental Unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, […]
Traditional leaders in the area of T.A. Mkhumba in Malawi’s southern district of Phalombe have banned harmful traditional practices including the use of Traditional Birth Attendants. This was disclosed during the training for the chiefs in Phalombe organized by Senior Chief Kwataine, the chairperson of the Presidential Initiative on safe motherhood and maternal health. Before […]
Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda has received praise from the European Union Ambassador for Humanitarian Causes Tasha de Vasconcerous for her safe-motherhood campaign in the southern African country. Soon after assuming power, Banda launched the Presidential Initiative for Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood, a project that will focus on improving the current poor maternal health. […]
Aida, 31, is a mother of four and married. When she gave birth to her last child, the pregnancy was unplanned. Aida, of Bwelero in Traditional Authority (TA) Mankhambira, Nkhata-Bay District, says her husband had agreed to terminate the pregnancy when it was two months old. But when Aida went to Nkhata-Bay District Hospital, medical […]
Led by the mother body Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), the protestant churches have agreed to engage more in matters of the family unit in order to stop the HIV and AIDS pandemic which has taken its toll on the Malawian population. The group is in the process of analysing the Malawian cultural and spiritual […]
The District Health Officer for Blantyre, Dr Owen Malemya has blamed the death of 16 cholera patients in the city this year on his staff members’ negligence. During a postmortem meeting held on Tuesday at the Blantyre City Assembly, Malemya said there was poor case management of cholera patients as they had all the required […]
Malawi government wants to address Vitamin A deficiency in children through the national Vitamin A Fortification program and has so far spent US$5 million in the process of fortifying sugar with Vitamin A in Malawi. Secretary for Nutrition, HIV and AIDS in the Office of the President and Cabinet Edith Mkawa, said government is planning to […]
Senior Chief Lukwa of Malawi’s central district of Kasungu has said the rising maternal deaths in the country would only be reduced should parents encourage young girls to stay in school. He was speaking Saturday during the installation ceremony of 12 chiefs held at Chidzenje area in the district where he asked the new chiefs […]
Malawi has the highest number of patients per doctor standing at 88,321 to one, a trend the Ministry of Health hopes will be reversed if the country continues graduating physicians. Statistics compiled by the Economist, an online magazine, puts Malawi on number one on the list of countries with the highest patient to doctor ratio […]
Carlsberg Malawi on Thursday donated three 40×3-foot containers of medical and biomedical equipment worth MK249m to Malawi Government at a function held at the New State House in Lilongwe. The donation will go to Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe and includes items such as crutches,baby scales,walking aides,gloves, hospital beds,anethesia machines,ultrashound units,IV sets,sutures,surgical drapes and other […]
Medical Aid Society of Malawi (MASM) clients will now be easily knowing the status of their medical schemes following the society’s new Short Message Service (SMS) innovation that allows customers, through the use of their mobile phones, to keep abreast with all account transactions. MASM Operations Manager, Dorika Chirwa said the new text message system […]
The Malawi branch of the US-based Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) has partnered with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Malawi’s Ministry of Health in a new program which seeks to strengthen HIV service delivery in the country. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the five-year program […]
Traditional leaders from Malawi’s southern district of Balaka have hailed the presidential safe motherhood initiative saying it has helped reduce maternal health in the district. Speaking at a meeting organized by the chairperson of the initiative Senior Chief Kwataine of Ntcheu, the traditional leaders expressed their commitment towards the initiative promising to assist President Joyce […]
Since taking over office in April this year, President Mrs. Joyce Banda has singled out safe motherhood as her top priority. Nearly five months down the line, a lot of work has already been done on the ground to improve the otherwise horrific situation where about 12 pregnant women reportedly die every day in Malawi […]
Chief Chiwalo of Phalombe on Tuesday attributed the continuing spreading of HIV and Aids in the country to the use of condoms. The traditional leader spoke out his mind at a joint HIV and Aids annual conference organised by the National Aids Commission in Lilongwe. Traditional Authority Chiwalo said Chiefs have given up a lot […]
Health authorities in Malawi are recruiting women to undergo an 18-month long training as midwives from 1st October. The exercise which targets 200 women has been made possible with a donation of MK15 million from Airtel Malawi. Coordinator for the Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood Dorothy Ngoma says interviews are currently being conducted in the […]
The Government of Malawi and United States based Biotech Inc in partnership with GB Oncology and Imaging Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will result in having an oncology and infection disease Clinic at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. President Joyce Banda signed on behalf of the Malawi Government while […]