Blantyre-based motor vehicle repairing and panel beating company on Friday donated an ambulance worth K12 million to Lilongwe District Health Office as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy. Speaking when he handed over the ambulance, K Motors chief executive officer Mansoor Karim said the donation is in response to the call by President […]
National Organisation for Nurses and Midwives (Nonm) have elected new office bearers with Shouts Simeza the Principal for St John of God Nursing College in Mzuzu given the mandate to govern the operations of the organisationas as its president for the next four years. Simeza replaces veteran health advocate, Dorothy Ngóma who has served the organisation both as an executive […]
The National Organization of Nurses and Midwives says the current power cut and shortages are affecting the country’s health service delivery system. Executive Director, Dorothy Ngoma, said the country’s health is in crisis reportedly after deaths are reported at t he country’s referral hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) because […]
Firebrand nurses activist Dorothy Ngoma is pleading with the government to take back 339 nurses it fired after the High Court of Malawi told a nurses organisation and government go back to mediation. Ngoma, executive director of National Organisation of Nurses in Malawi (NONM) said since the mediation was completed, the government is delaying in […]
Over 300 nurses who were supposed to sit for interviews Tuesday to get employment in public hospitals will have to wait a little longer as Nurses and Midwives Organisation of Malawi has obtained a court injunction against the holding of the interviews. Dorothy Ngoma, executive director of National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives confirmed Monday […]
The Human Resources for Health (HRH) Coalition has urged the private sector entities and members of the Employers Consultative Association of Malawi (Ecama) to consider adopting health facilities and major referral hospitals to improve and ensure provision of quality health services in the country. Speaking during an interface meeting with civil societies and employers, under […]
Malawi government is scalling down on patient meals as food budgets fall, health figures reveal meals in public hospitals from three a day to one a day. Hospitals affected include Bwaila District Hospital in Lilongwe where admitted patients have been told that they will be having one meal a day from the normal three meals The […]
Malawi health watchdog has issued an unprecedented warning about public hospitals ward staffing levels, saying the high nurse-to-patient ratio is “a ticking time-bomb” for the country. Malawi Health Equity Network (Mhen) executive director, Martha Kwataine, has warned that the understaffing of health workers is unsafe. Kwataine said research has shown the risk of harm and […]
Malawians should brace for tough times in a week time when nurses in the county down their tools as the National Organisations of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi (NONM) has given Malawi Government seven days to pay nurses working under Christian Hospitals Association of Malawi(CHAM), their monetary entitlements or else the nurses down tool. NONM […]
Top nurse and activist Dorothy Ngoma has been elected to head the National Organization of Nurses and Midwives President (NONM) after beating three other contestants during the elections which took place at Natural Resources college in the capital city Lilongwe over the weekend. Ngoma, a former lecturer at Kamuzu College of Nursing, got 85 votes while […]
Fiscal Police are investigating the former first lady Callista Mutharika alleged financial abuses when she was operating under Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) on safemotherhood role, Nyasa Times understands. Police source told Nyasa Times on Sunday evening that Fiscal Police detectives were following leads over newspaper report that the taxpayers paid over K25 […]
Global maternal and child health leaders have commended tremendous strides that have been made by Malawi’s Safe Motherhood eleven months down the line following commitments made at the Family Planning London summit in 2012. Prominent figures working in the sector from about 150 countries worldwide have gathered IN Kuala Lumpur with the aim of improving […]
Traditional leaders in the area of T.A. Mkhumba in Malawi’s southern district of Phalombe have banned harmful traditional practices including the use of Traditional Birth Attendants. This was disclosed during the training for the chiefs in Phalombe organized by Senior Chief Kwataine, the chairperson of the Presidential Initiative on safe motherhood and maternal health. Before […]
Since taking over office in April this year, President Mrs. Joyce Banda has singled out safe motherhood as her top priority. Nearly five months down the line, a lot of work has already been done on the ground to improve the otherwise horrific situation where about 12 pregnant women reportedly die every day in Malawi […]
Health authorities in Malawi are recruiting women to undergo an 18-month long training as midwives from 1st October. The exercise which targets 200 women has been made possible with a donation of MK15 million from Airtel Malawi. Coordinator for the Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood Dorothy Ngoma says interviews are currently being conducted in the […]
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 […]
Newly appointed National Coordinator for Safe Motherhood in the Office of the President , Dorothy Ngoma says is expecting to enjoy full benefits and monthly remuneration in her new post. President Joyce Banda appointed well-known rights activist Ngoma to replace former first lady Callista Mutharika for the post which she had occupied the position for two years. […]
President Joyce Banda has finally fired former first lady Callista Mutharika from her position of national coordinator of the Safe Motherhood Initiative and replaced her with Dorothy Ngoma, executive director of the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives (NOMN). The firing of Callista and hiring of Ngoma were announced on Wednesday evening by the Office […]