Malawi denies President Mutharika ill health: State House refutes foreign doctors flown in

State House has denied reports that President Peter Mutharika is ill and that foreign doctors have been flown in to treat him.

Mutharika:  Malawi President fit and well, says Viola
Mutharika: Malawi President fit and well, says Viola

Social media rumours have been spreading that Malawi government has hired doctors from South Africa to treat the President who tripped last Saturday during a tree planting function at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe.

The information circulating indicates that government had flown doctors by private chartered jet spending K420 million for their services and that Mutharika is undergoing specialist treatment.

But Presidential spokesman Gerald Viola strongly dismissed the claims, labelling them load of rubbish.

“The President is fit and well and he is performing his normal routine,” Viola said on Daybreak Malawi program aired Monday on Capital Radio.

He said those speculation about the President’s ill health are sick and evil minds.

“Malawi government has not hired foreign doctors.  We have [competent] doctors in Malawi,” said Viola.

He described the reports as “propaganda on social media.”

Viola stressed that President Mutharika is energetic and alert and that reports suggesting he is poorly are “laughable.”

The Presidential spokesman maintained that Mutharika was “OK”.

Recently, Mutharika hired physician Hetherwick Ntaba as domestic advisor.

A long time Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spin-doctor, Ntaba was also personal physician of founding President Dr Kamuzu Banda and later on hired by former president Bakili Muluzi to be a physician of his late mother.

He was also an aide of late president Bingu wa Mutharika.

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69 replies on “Malawi denies President Mutharika ill health: State House refutes foreign doctors flown in”

  1. The same thing happened in Harare,Zimbabwe Banda fell nose- down during recess period when he was attending Commonwealth Conference of which he did not have any clue of what was taking place inside due to senility.From there his people back home had no information of his mishap because they used to be told that their messiah was immortal,but then he was jetted out to Britain for medical treatment,the people of Malawi were left in darkness.So to say the truth,Peter’s health is not in good form whether mentally or phisically.God himself knows and Malawians will know this later.Where there is smoke,there is fire.JOSI SHUNKU PALI MOTO.I wish you well.

  2. Eish this country annoyed me when r u ever going to work up leave boma for young health and energetic boys zadziiiiiiiii

  3. A Viola pana akazi anu anakukunthani ndii mithiko. Ukondaa kuchinda ife Pali can Nzuru unganene. Mapwaraaa a mako

  4. I think Malawians now have no news to tell, you only think of someone sick and then he dies. Why cant you be one day think positive about your own presidents? Olo atadwala ndi nkhani? Inu simudwala? he is a human being like you, koma zomangonamazi si bwino mulungu akuonani. No matter how you hate somebody but never wish him dead at all. No matter the economic problems we are facing, this should not make someone wish the president sick and dead. Now listen if you accept to have a president in the country you should accept that if at anytime he is sick, he will need the best treatment ever, just like the treatment a chief executive of a company gets can not be the same as that of an accounts clerk. So its better for a president to get the best treatment and survive unlike get the cheapest treatment and die because his death will be more expensive than the so called expensive treatment you call in this already ailing economy. Malawians please start thinking positive about others including your own leaders, they are human like you. how mant times have you slipped or tumbled and fallen? were you sick, or are you sick?

  5. The word of God says” Bless others so that you should be blessed as well” I therefore declare that who ever is wishing APM bad luck, will be bereaved before December this year so that you should know how painful death is and you should learn to respect Human kind. I pray in the name of Jesus that those who wishes others bad luck should suffer the same ailments so that the holiness of God should be appreciated. Woyenda ndi lupanga azafa ndi lupanga chomwecho ofunira mnzake choipa choipacho chim’bwerele yekha! Amene sanaferedwe alandira maliro chaka chino chisanathe kuti adziwe ukulu wa Mulungu! Amen!

  6. Malawi sazatheka chifukwa cha maganizo wofunirana zoyipa ….zoon a kugwa kwa president ikhale nkhani is he not a human being?President its just a word.come on …foolish Malawians.

  7. kupepera kwenikweni kodi president ukunenayo mukufuna akamwalira mudye? Anthu opanda mzeru ngati inu sindinakuoneni ayi afiti enieni ndipo inu atolankhani musamale chifukwa nkhani yotola siyimeneyi

  8. Koma a Malawi nthawi zina timaganiza ngati ana ndithu.Kodi munthu akateleleka ndi kugwa ndiye kuti akudwala eti?
    Kodi Nyondo wa zaka 40 anamwalira uja anayamba wagwa kenako ndi kufa eti?
    Ai a Malawi a mzanga tiyeni tiziganiza mwa nzeru.
    Za kubadwa ndi kufa kwa munthu zili mmanja mwa mulungu osati inu. Zimatheka munthu wa zaka 20 kufa kusiya agogo.
    Okufa sadziwika ndipo pofera salambula chenjerani ndi maganizo oipawo.

    1. mr.big man,just accept jesus now and he will prepare a very beautful everlasting accomodation for you in heaven,failing which,24hrs burning fire is leady for devil and you

  9. i just now believe the song of gwaladi “bisani matenda koma maliro tizamva”.may be they feel like ,if they will tell pple the truth then they are underpple.but its not like that.munthu ukakhala ndi vuto ndikumalibisa amasowa okuthandiza.

  10. History is indeed about to repeat itself. Ntaba gas been hired as an undertaker not an adviser, Just that the eye can not see. He has escorted to grave all presidents he worked with including Chairs mother.
    Watch the space.

  11. Ntaba must have bad omen…all presidents that he has worked with are now 6 foot under. By hiring Ntaba, angels have spoken to Peter that he is a professional undertaker. So bravo peter.

  12. Its Ok to fall, its Ok to be sick, its Ok to be ill. We are human and we are all candidates to all this, these are all human attributes. It is NOT OK to deny when such happens, for we pretend to be endowed with non-human attributes. At 79 years, thus Octagenarian, Peter Mutharika has lived a typical long life. Technically he can live another 2 years, thus the longest he can live is 81 years. This is life expectancy in Developed world, and we can give him that. This means, the probability of him dying any time is 0.99999

  13. That’s a sign of God’s call.Please peter prepare yourself.I understand the guy is old enough and he is just messing the country.Remember how your brother went n hopefully, u will follow suit soon.

  14. our president is also a human being not a statue he can meet what ever happens in peoples life he is just a leader and a human why do we always think of bad things towards our leaders i do sympathies with my fellow Malawians lets build our nation with love

  15. A Viola!!!!!! Let the speechless president speak for himself if he is welluuu. Malawians should wake-up and stop electing dead presidents. The Muthalikas are good at dieying during their tenure of office. This is no suprise to us.

  16. Mubisa matenda koma maliro sadzasowa. A Viola pali mumanena cha chilungungamo kuti munthu wa nzeru angakukhulupireni?

  17. Funny about these stories is that some commentators may die earlier than APM. The point is that Malawi is a sick society which wishes others ill even to the point of wanting them dead. Zinayamba ndi Dr. Banda many people wanted hi, dead earlier enogh.

  18. Dead man walking – Arthur Peter Mutharika! Billions you stole cannot keep you alive. Prepare to make your creator GOD almighty.

  19. You can hide it now, but not forever. Ikagwamo yokanika kusanduliza zioneka zokha. Kaliati adauzapo amalawi kuti Bingu akupeza bwino kuchipatala cha ku SA pomwe munthu anapita ali kale mtembo. Koma zinafikabe pokanika kubisa, dziko linadziwa. So, kazibisani.

  20. Lord please, help us to be strong and love one another and develop a heart in us of empathy towards each other.
    Teach us to honour our leaders despite their short comings.
    Heavenly Father, you are the greatest in your power and authority to select the best suitable leaders and also grant them the adequate amount of wisdom to rule us as a nation that fears you Lord. Amen.

  21. Koma zoona eti? Ndi chifukwa chake mukuikhalira ATI eti? Malawians have the right to know. Remember about Bingu. You tried to hide that Bingu had passed on koma maliro sabisika ngakhale munatumiza munthu wakufa kale Daniel Phiri ku South Africa, akweni Kaliati akudumpha nalo bodza, zinalephereka basi. Maliro tinaika. Matendawo bisani koma maliro akagwa simudzatha kuwabisa. Choonadi chizadziwika. It is natural to die as that is what God said when man sinned.

  22. In a democracy we Malawians have a right to be assured that our President is fit and well. Mutharika should therefore be seen as fit and well. Muthraika must attend a public function and be seen.
    Bingu died from a heart attack. And heart decease runs in families so it is fair and proper to assume that Peter Mutharika is being called by God to answer God’s call and any day now Peter will be gone.
    Peter Mutharika is not a fit man for a fit person does not get a spokesperson to say he is fit and well, a fit person like a child who fells down must get up and be seen to run.

  23. Nkhani ndiyakuti sakudwala koma achita hayala ma dotolo akonkuno kwa2 ku MALAWI…….Madotolowa angopita kuti akamwe nao tea wa ku Thyolo. LONG LIVE MR PRESIDENT

  24. a president mundigaileko ndalama ndiyambe busnes,ka 4 milion kokha bas,sinyale koma zandivuta kwambir,ndinu kholo lathu ndithandizen,mutha kulumikizana nane pa number iyi 0884046527,long live mr president!

  25. Whether this boy Viola is lying or not will be exposed on Tuesday at TEN AM when APM meets Her Excellency Jan Beagle the UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary- General of the United Nations in full view of all the reporters including of Times Group. Then mudzalembenso zabodza zanuzi kkkkkk mbuzi za anthu. Ife a Kongeresi tinatsimikiza kuti OPitala ndiwo odawina pachisankhochija koma awa awa omati oPPwa kkkkkk mbavazi shaaaa… Ine monga Chakwera ndudikira 2024 kuti mwina OPitala nkudzandilolako kuulawa uPresident.

  26. Nthawi ya Chitsulo chanjanji zinali chimodzimodzi kuti sakudwala, kenako sadatisiye koma chotsatila chinali chaaa?? We are all aware what T.B. Joshua prophesied a month ago. So watch out Viola!!!!!!!!!!!

  27. So mr Viola,mwati ma doctors akuthandiza bwanawo ndi akonkuno osati akunja eti?
    Amalawi tamavani sanaitane akunja ma dotolo kudzathandiza bwanawo ayi atenga akonkuno vuto lanu ndi chani? mukuganiza angavomele Million mwaitchula pamenepoyo?koma zoti bwanawo akudwala bwana Viola avomeleza ndichifukwa chake atenga ma dotolo athu omwewa.

  28. kusangalala munthu akudwala sizabwino olo mkhalidwe wankhaza. koma vu to ndikuliona ine ndilobisa matenda. Mutharika is a public figure and so people must be informed of anything happening in or around him, osatenga anthu ngati zitsiru kuti mukamanama angokuyang’anani Ai amachita kafukufuku ndiye amaveka nkafukufuku wao than the truth you hide.

  29. Anyway kugwa kumene anagwa bwana athu padzana paja pachingeredzi timati ” JUNIOR CARDIAC ARREST”
    Koma yikangobwera “SENIOR” ndiye dzitibvuta tonsetu .
    Ine mantha bwanji !!!

  30. If you did hide Bingu’s death what can DPP tell us about Peter’s health ? No wonder you took Bingu’s dead body to South Africa thinking that a miracle was going to happen . He is to follow his brother and mind you whoever is born from a woman he should expect to die , don’t expect Peter to be an everlasting person.
    The guy bougth himself a full kit of a moving hospital not a full kit box , still death will follow him and by passing his security body guards ,death got him in his private room right in the state house.

  31. Idzikagwa nyenyezi kumwamba (meteorite) yoti kwao ndi mlengalenga koma kugwera kuno kunsi (Earth),ndiye mukati munthu asagwe? Who said presidents can beat gravity?

  32. Amalawi azanga kodi mukuziwa kuti tikamafalisa nkhani zonyasa ngati izi zimatipangisa manyazi kumaiko ena omwe amamva. How come munthu wankulu kumakhala happy kuti someone is sick. Kodi kusiyana zipani should be a thing zokhuza healthy yamunthu. pali chonyadisa apa. Lets be patriotic to our country. Chabwino atakhala akudwala ndi zonyadisa? inu simudwala? This is very bad to hear from our beautiful country Malawi. Ngati zili ndale lets seperate with someone’s health. Anakhala mayi anu agwa munakasangalala? Sikuti ndikuvomera kuti zachitika koma zandikhuza kwambiri.

    1. Bodza Louis bodza. Sizimatichititsa manyazi at all. You’re just a stinking DPP supporter that’s why you’re disappointed. Kagwere uko.

  33. The President ill or sick? Ill means bed ridden and sick means is walking whilst with minor ailments. So which is which ?Even if the story is true that Doctors have been flown in, it could mean they just came in to do a routine check up to ascertain if he has a clean bill of health. Most of us do it once a year or when you feel something wrong and this does not mean a person is ill. So we have heard it that he is very well from Viola and thus good news.

  34. Ayankhe yekha bwanayo kuti tikhulupilire kuti ali bwino. Timuone tokha kaye ndiye ma rumours atha. Apo bii akudwaladi.

  35. So what is the relationship of this story and Ntaba?????? A Malawi, tiyeni tidzifunirana zabwino osati izi ai……..

  36. Mr. Gerald Viola, please do not say we are ‘sick and evil’ just because we are speculating.

    Do you need my reply to what you have labeled ??? !!!!! ????…..watch you mouth.

  37. We have competent doctors in Malawi? So where were they when The ex president suffered a heart attack and died? Malawi officials please if the president is not well it is only right and proper to fly in foreign doctors or send him to Uk or any other Europian country for treatment. Most African leaders do itand I am sure he can afford it or use the already ailing economy coffers.Talking about the economy, it will take a long time for the Malawi kwaca to recover so Malawians you are in for a rough and tough time ahead.

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