A British Charity, Freedom from Fistula Foundation, has pledged to intensify its fight against obstetric fistula in Malawi by opening a bigger fistula unit at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe. “We are opening a bigger fistula unit at Bwaila hospital so that more pregnant women are assisted during delivery,” said Ann Gloag, a British reknowned entrepreneur […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali who also doubles as Health Minister on Tuesday persuaded medical doctors, nurses and clinical officers to resume offering their services during the hours when they are entitled to locum , saying government will seriously consider their plea to increase the allowances. The workers want the allowance to rise by about 600 […]
Malawian nursing mothers have been urged to take the six months exclusive breast feeding as a priority to reducing stuntedness in children and fight child mortality in the country. A senior official in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) made the advice in Blantyre breast feeding was the best way to fighting stunted […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda is offering mothers-to-be in public hospitals new hope with her newly introduced project to donate solar powered lamps to maternity wings, complementing her Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood project. Banda made the first donation of the lamps on Friday at Dowa district Hospital when she laid a foundation stone on […]
No Malawian woman should die because she wants to give birth, President Joyce Banda said on Friday at Dowa District Hospital when she laid a foundation stone for a maternity waiting home. Banda, who has always been an advocate for safe motherhood, said the maternity waiting home will help pregnant women access medical care at an […]
Influential Ugandan church leader Reverend Cannon Gideon Byamugisha will be in Malawi in to drum up the campaign on the Global Race to save lives from HIV and AIDS in October. He is the first African religious leader to announce he is HIV positive. Byamugisha lives with his wife and three HIV negative children. Malawi’s […]
Britain’s government says it has noted with delight that Malawian women are able to make informed decisions on family planning methods of their choice. International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told journalists on Thursday immediately after touring sexual health and family planning services clinic – Banja la Mtsogolo (BLM) at Chilomoni township in Malawi’s commercial city Blantyre. […]
President Joyce Banda on Wednesday laid a foundation stone for Maternity Waiting Home and launched the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood in Mulanje with a resolve to gallantly fight against the alarming maternal deaths in Malawi. Speaking at Mulanje Park Ground after laying the foundation stone at Mulanje District Hospital, President Banda […]
The FDH Bank, a subsidiary of FDH Financial Holding Limited has given assorted medical equipment valued at K700, 000 to Mangochi District Hospital The equipment comprised an autoclave used in the operating theatre, suction machine and lamps for the maternity ward, infusion pumps and ventilators among other items. FDH Bank Managing Director, Jimmy Kayuni, said […]
Residents of Bangwe Township, one of the cholera prone areas in Blantyre were on Saturday persuaded on the need to build modern latrines that are environmental friendly. This was said during the mobile- sensitization meeting at Bangwe Market conducted by Sanitation Solutions, a private company specializing in constructing modern latrines that do not give out […]
Malawi’s hospitals are in trouble and patients will suffer most as nurses have decided to boycott work after their normal working hours because the Ministry of Health has refused to their allowances called ‘locum’. The nurses justified their demand because of the recent devaluation of the Kwacha. The central bank devalued the Kwacha nearly to […]
It has been some weeks since President Mrs. Joyce Banda fired former First Lady, Callista Mutharika from the position of Safe Motherhood cordinator, where she was pocketing over MK1.3 million on top of government expenditure on her position as late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s wife. Callista was replaced by executive director at the National Organisation […]
There is increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS among fishermen on Malawi’s Lake Chilwa with revelations that fishermen and business women are exchanging sex for fish . The development is also causing marriage break-ups around the villages close to the lake. This revelation was made during a Kalondolondo Programme Workshop under the theme: ‘Report on the Assessment […]
A former Zambian sex worker, Precious Kawinga has partnered with a local theatre company, Solomonic Peacocks Theatre in a project aimed at reforming commercial sex workers in Malawi. Kawinga, who was one of the contenders in Zambia’s Africa Unite Television, Ready For Marriage reality show forged the partnership with Solomonic Peacock last month and is […]
The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust on Friday engaged journalists at Malaria Alert Centre in Blantyre for a workshop under the theme, ‘Health Research Now Radio Project Media Training’. Science Communications Officer from Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust, Tamara Chipasula said that the objective of the workshop was to help both journalists and scientists to understand the ethics of reporting health research […]
Populations of vulnerable women in Malawi and the Lower Shire belt in the southern region stand to benefit from efforts of a media organisation through advocacy and documentation activities it is carrying out on effects of population, health and the environment (PHE) as they relate to climate change issues. The Journalists Association against AIDS (JournAIDS) […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has emphasized the need to educate the girl child if the fight against maternal death is to be won. The President was speaking on Wednesday at her official residence in Lilongwe during an audience that she had with the national Chiefs steering committee on Presidential initiative on maternal health and safe […]
Employees at one of Malawi’s major referral hospitals, Kamuzu Central, have threatened to go an indefinite strike if authorities do not consider their demand for an increment on allowances. The workers want an increment on allowances which they receive when they work during off-days which is popularly known as “locum”. Some workers told Nyasa Times […]