A girl child has died in the capital Lilongwe after she mistakenly drank a poisonous chemical which his father bought to deal with a termite problem at his garden. Nyasa Times has learnt that Dr. Masauko Kumwenda of Area 25 Sector 3, who works at the Ministry of Agriculture headquarters, on the fourteenth of this month […]
Government through the Department of Forestry has engaged the services of the Malawi Defense Force (MDF) to help in protecting the Mulanje Mountain. MDF has been given a go ahead by council members from both Phalombe and Mulanje districts which surround the mountain. Speaking during a meeting held in Mulanje, Director for Forestry Department, Clement […]
High Court judge Maclean Kamwambi on Tuesday failed to turn up at the court in Blantyre to deliver a landmark judgement on whether former president Bakili Muluzi should be freed on the so called K1.7 billion corruption case or not. Judiciary spokesperson Mlenga Mvula said Kamwambi was in Lilongwe attending a week long meeting. The […]
Government says it will go ahead to table the adulterated Access to Information Bill (ATI) despite stiff opposition from civil rights groups. Leader of the House Francis Kasaira said the Access to Information bill is among the 15 bills carried over from the last meeting of parliament that will be tabled in the coming meeting which […]
Malawi Police in Chiradzulu have arrested a top most head of district public health services in connection with the theft of K10 million medical drugs. Chiradzulu district police public relations officer Victoria Chirwa confirmed the arrest of Dr Sten Gift Chinomba, aged 30, from Mpowola Village in the area of Traditional Authority [T/A] Kuntumanji in […]
A health rights activist has asked the government to halt its plans to introduce user fees in public hospitals, saying the government is not prepared for that. Patients and Health Community Foundation executive director Awali Alide said there were a lot of things the government needed to sort out before forcing people to pay for […]
Malawi Police in Mulanje district are keeping in custody two men who were found in possession of fake local currency amounting to K61, 100. The two are Julius Kachala, 35, of Matunduluzi village, T/A Kalolo in Lilongwe district and 28-year-old Chimwemwe Richard, of Kathumba village, T/A Mabuka in Mulanje district. “On Wednesday (11th May) Richard […]
The Civil Society Agriculture Network (Cisanet) has called on government to set up a framework law on Right to Food to criminalize any violations on people access to food, politicization of food, demanding sexual favors in exchange for food, among others. Cisanet has since applauded government for reinforcing regulations of trading of agriculture produce in the […]
Ministry of Health officials are battling rumours that the country has suspected cases of yellow fever following an outbreak in some parts of Africa where 200 people have died so far. Ministry of Health spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said there were no suspected cases of yellow fever as reported by Capital Radio through tweets and radio. […]
Officials at Mchinji District Hospital are expressing concern over the high number of pregnant mothers and babies who die in the district, saying the situation is now worrisome. Mchinji District Hospital Nursing Officer Emmanuel Mpoola said maternal mortality rate, the death of women due to pregnancy complications, stands at 62 per cent. He said for […]
Health officials in Mwanza have expressed concern over the high rate of Mozambicans seeking medical treatment in the border district saying they have overwhelmed health service delivery. District Health Officer Raphael Piringu said out of four patients referred to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, two or three are Mozambicans and out of the 150 […]
A Canada based Malawian academician has blamed the spread of HIV and AIDS in Malawi and other African countries to poverty and inequalities between the halves and halve nots. Associate Professor in Public Health Paul Mkandawire is leading a group of 18 students from Carlton University in Canada who are doing a research. He stressed […]
Relations are the ones on forefront fuelling the abduction and killing of people with albinism aside exhuming their body parts, Malawi police have said. And while concurring with the police, Association of Persons with Albinism (APA) has also blamed the increased albino killings on conmen. Speaking during Tikhale Tcheru programme monitored on MBC television, National […]
Egypt can replace India as a medical referral country according to Dr Cooper Nyirenda, Chairman of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) Referral Committee. Nyirenda, who is also QECH Chief Physician, made the assertion Saturday on his arrival from Egypt where he went on a skill enhancement tour as winner of the health category award in […]
Government has flatly refused to ban small passenger public vehicles of bongo and vanetta types, saying this will cause more problems than solving them. Minister of Transport Malison Ndau said this on Saturday a week after the parliamentary committee on Transport recommended to the government to ban the minibuses, saying they were designed to carry […]
Health officials in Rumphi are battling with cholera, which has alarmingly affected 41 people from just four a few days ago and fear the number of patients might go up. District Health Officer for Rumphi , Bwanalole Mwamulimwa said health personnel in the district are on the ground to contain the disease. “The number of […]
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has disclosed that it duly approved Press Trust Overseas Limited, a subsidiary of Press Trust Corporation, to register in the tax havens of British Virgin Islands, Jersey and Channel Island. Press Trust Corporation is an organization established through an act of parliament and run by political elites and well […]
Supreme Court of Appeal has saved Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) Governor Charles Chuka from imprisonment on contempt of court charges after it have an order staying the High Court ruling that orderd the central bank to refund Blantyre-based Pakistani national Muhammed Jawad K185 million ($269 970). On April 28 2016 High Court judge Kenyatta […]