Mary’s Meals one of the organizations dealing with school feeding programs in Malawi has disclosed that it has lost its 2015 to 2016 last term resources in Karonga due to cholera disease which led to the ban of its program. The revelation follows the ban of the program in the first term of the 2016 […]
Health officials in Karonga are blaming fishermen for the continued cases of the deadly cholera disease in the lakeshore district. Lewis Tukula, a district environmental health officer said there are continued cases of cholera in some areas in the district because fishermen are not cooperating on hygiene practices. “So far 13 people have died and […]
The Health officials in Karonga the north of Malawi, have embarked on swimming restriction campaign in the Lake of Malawi in order to curb the spread of cholera as 14 people have died while 282 cases have been registered within a period of two months. This was revealed during a panel discussion on the climate […]
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 […]
Government says over 100 people were down with the disease in the past four months and the situation seems not to improve in Karonga which continues to receive continuous heavy rains with five death recorded so far out of 48 cases. Adrian Chikumbe, spokesperson for ministry of health says 27 people have so far lost […]
One person died of cholera on Monday in Machinga whilst seven others were unattended at a health centre in the district after health workers boycotted work to force the government pay them overtime allowances. Poor sanitation exacerbates the spread of cholera. Reports from Namanja Health Centre indicate the health workers are not happy with the […]
Leprosy, a disease older than the Bible, is back in Malawi and has hit seven districts. Leonard Mawaya, program manager for the Department of Leprosy and Skin Diseases at the Ministry of Health, said the disease was restricted to Balaka in 2015 but has now spread to Nkhotakotakota, Phalombe, Mangochi, Mzimba, Salima and Machinga. “As […]
Government has warned of a cholera outbreak in Phalombe following the rise in cases of districts that surround Lake Chirwa. Ministry of Health spokesman Adrian Chikumbe said there is severe sanitation around Lake Chirwa. He said this has led to the rise of cholera cases in Machinga which now stands at 95 and 29 in […]
Fears of a cholera outbreak around Karonga market with users blaming Karonga District Council officials for negligence on sanitary issues. Cholera, which claimed three lives, hit neighbouring Kyera district of Tanzania a few weeks ago. Over 14 people were hospitalized. But, it seems, officials at the Council are casting a blind eye on hygienic issues […]
One person has died while 26 others are under treatment following cholera outbreaks in Malawi’s eastern districts of Machinga and Zomba, the Ministry of Health has said. By December 25, 2015, according to Secretary for Health, Dr McPhil Magwira, Machinga recorded a cumulative total of 19 cholera cases and one death while Zomba reported 7 […]
World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa is intensifying country support to prevent cholera from reaching internally displaced person (IDP) camps along the border of Malawi and Mozambique. Since January 2015, extensive flooding has caused 230 000 IDPs to live in opportune refugee camps and temporary shelters. As of 2 March 2015, 55 cases of […]
Two people have died while 36 others are under treatment following an outbreak of the deadly waterborne disease in Nsanje district. A visit at Ndamera Health Centre in the district on Wednesday where the Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) has mounted a Cholera Treatment Centre, revealed that four of the affected people are members of the same family. […]
An estimated 140.000 Malawians affected by the floods remain in very high need of medical services in the hard-to-reach Nsanje and East Bank areas, with cholera representing the most immediate threat, said the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), currently the only medical humanitarian actor responding on in this most affected district in support […]
Severe floods in Malawi are raising fears of a large-scale cholera outbreak, a health official said on Thursday, as the country grapples with a disaster that has killed at least 48 people and made 70 000 homeless over the past few days. The Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services has forecast further heavy rain […]
World Vision International has donated medical supplies worth about K1.5million in response to the cholera threat in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga. The organisation’s Programme Manager Cornex Mbaluko said the donation is one of the preventive measures to the district saying cholera is a serious disease which need to be controlled in time. “Our […]
Health authorities in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga which borders Tanzania are closely monitoring three patients who are showing signs of cholera few days after they received an alert from Kyera a neighboring district in Tanzania about cholera outbreak there. District Health Officer Michael Kayange told Nyasa Times that they received an alert message two days ago […]
Malawi through its Ministry of Health said there is no cholera case so far recorded in any of the districts of the country since the onset of the rainy season in November. Ministry of Health spokesperson Henry Chimbali said Friday that this is because of the good job done by both the health workers and […]
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 […]