A Lilongwe charity has launched an urgent blood donation drive to support children undergoing cancer treatment, as Malawi marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month this September — with organisers revealing hundreds of children are diagnosed with the disease in the country every single year. The Rotary Club of Lilongwe City Centre organised the initiative to back […]
Muslim Youth United (MYU) will offer free testing for diabetes during is annual Blood Donation Camp it has organised on Sunday as part of observing the World Diabetes Day that falls today, November 14. The free diabetes testing will be offered from 10am-2pm at Mpingwe Sports Club in Limbe for brothers and Rawdhatul Yatama Orphange […]
Donors have now stopped buying blood from Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) for the public central hospitals, risking lives of those involved in road accidents and expectant mothers. Secretary for Health and Population Dan Namarika however has not said why the donors have decided to pull out of this crucial exercise. “I wish to formally […]
Members of Muslim Youth United (MY) on Sunday organised a Blood Donation Camp at Mpingwe Sports Club in Limbe, which the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) described as very welcome initiative in their drive to keep the blood bank well stocked. MBTS’s lab technician on duty, Levison Munthali, said demand for blood is always high throughout the […]
Actors Welfare Initiative (AWI) has appealed to all artists in the country to donate blood through Malawi blood donation. The body has put aside August 11 as a major day for the exercise but Creatives are encouraged to donate blood for the whole week at their nearest MBTS offices across the country. According to Malawi Blood Transfusion Services […]
Martin Luther king, Junior once said “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’. And if you ask the same question to Airtel Malawi Managing Director Charles Kamoto, the urgent answer would be “he donated blood” to save lives. On Friday, Kamoto also headed Lilongwe based journalists in donating blood […]
There was commotion at Chonde community hospital on Wednesday, when people scrambled to see a woman claiming that unknown people sucked her blood during the night of Tuesday. Struggling with her speaking, as people showered her with questions, the woman said she had seen an object in the house and later fail unconscious, but pointed […]
Barely fews days after the Malawi Police dismissed blood suckers claims in Mulanje district, communities in Phalombe district have smashed two ambulances on suspicion that they carried blood suckers. The damaged ambulances belong to Phalombe and Mulanje District Health Offices (DHOs). The incident, coming barely few days after three people believed to be have been […]
Minister of Health Peter Kumpalume has taken it upon himself to investigate serious allegations that medical personnel at Kasungu District Hospital rejected a blood donation of 100 people because there was no allowance. This was after 100 youths of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church central region travelled to the district hospital to donate blood […]
Nsanje district hospital employee has been arrested on allegations that he received money from a guardian in payment for blood which the suspect promised to source for a patient who required blood transfusion. Nsanje police publicist Sergeant Agnes Zalakoma, has identified the suspect as Chikondi Sadya, 23, a hospital attendant at Nsanje District Hospital who […]
Specialist for blood diseases at the College of Medicine in Lilongwe, Dr. Yohane Mlombe has stressed the need to sensitize Malawians on Haemophilia. He said this in Lilongwe on Tuesday when he opened a two-day media awareness training on Haemophilia at Nurses Council. Mlombe explained that Haemophilia is a disease which composed of bleeding disorders […]
Health minister Peter Kumpalume has asked more Malawians to embrace the culture of blood donations following fatal accidents on the roads. Kumpalume said this on Tuesday when he visited 40 accident patients at Mzuzu Central Hospital who were involved in the fatal accident last week that killed 15 others. “We need to have our blood […]
Mzuzu Rotary Club members on Saturday donated blood to Malawi Blood Transfusion Services (MBTS) in a drive to avert shortage of blood in hospitals at a time when most students were on holiday. The Rotary Club President Susan Gwamba said the club decided to donate blood to MBTS following an appeal from the institution. Gwamba […]
New York-based 155 times global blood donor, Arjun Prasad Mainali is expected to visit Malawi on 20th August, 2016 where he is expected to donate blood. He is expected to a long trip from United States of America (USA) to Malawi’s capital Lilongwe to donate blood at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH). Mainali, a volunteer, who has […]
A local NGO, Parent And Child Health Initiative (PACHI) has engaged rural communities on the blood donation exercise to complement the Malawi Blood Transfusion Services (MBTS) initiative of reaching out to secondary and college students. The model is a component of Social Mobilization and Accountability Project which is in 12 districts, Mzimba south and north, […]
Traditional Authority (T/A) Ngongoliwa, who is the patron of Mulhako wa Alhomwe, on Saturday led members of this tribal grouping in donating blood to the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS), which is mandated to provide adequate supplies of safe blood and blood products to meet the needs of all patients in all hospitals in Malawi. The […]
Mulhako Wa Alhomwe, one of the tribal groupings in the country, has organised a day-long blood donation service to be held this Saturday, 25 July 2015 in Blood Transfusion centres across the country. The event, which is open to all Malawians, will be held in partnership with the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS), which is […]
The Global Health Corps (GPC) has partnered the Malawi Blood Transfusion Services (MBTS) in a blood donation drive to take place at Game Stores Complex Car Park in Lilongwe tomorrow, Saturday 13 June. This comes at a time Malawi joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Blood Donor Day which falls on 14 […]