Ministry of Health says preparations are nearly complete to launch dialysis treatment at Mzuzu Central Hospital in October, in a move officials hope will ease the burden on kidney patients in the northern region who have long had to travel hundreds of kilometres for care. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr Dan Namarika, […]
Malawi will conduct a fourth round of its polio vaccination campaign, targeting over 7 million children under the age of 10, scheduled for 21 to 24 July. Secretary for Health and Sanitation Dr Dan Namarika disclosed this during a stakeholders and media webinar, saying the campaign will ensure all children receive their vaccination to protect […]
Malawi government has indicated that more dead bodies from South Africa will be coming soon following the partial lift on the restrictions for combating coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. At least 16 dead bodies arrived in the country last week, with government indicating that their deaths were due to non-infectious causes as road traffic accidents, leukemia […]
Ministry of Health principal secretary Dan Namarika has expressed concern that the political rallies held by both the ruling party alliance and the opposition would defeat the fight against coronavirus. On Sunday, the nine party opposition alliance led by Lazarus Chakwera and the DPP/UDF alliance Atupele Muluzi held various political rallies across the country with […]
Private practice lawyer, Bright Theu, has questioned government’s decision to put Principal Secretary (PS) for the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr. Dan Namarika, in the lead in the fight against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In his post on the social media, Theu challenges that government cannot successfully convince Malawians on COVID-19 pandemci with Namarika […]
Ministry of Health Principal Secretary (PS) Dan Namarika has said up to 16 million Malawians could be infected with Covid-19, the strands of the novel coronavirus pandemic in a year. Currently, Malawi’s population is estimated at 17.6 million, according to the 2018 Population and Housing Census conducted by the National Statistical Office. But during a media briefing in […]
Ministry of Health Principal Secretary (PS) Dan Namarika has sounded an alarm for Malawians to take a cautious approach in an attempt to tackle the rapid spread of coronavirus, announcing that the country has so far recorded six new cases of Covid-19 bringing the total number case to 23. Addressing a news conference in Blantyre, Namarika said […]
Malawi on Tuesday recorded new case of Covid-19, the strands of coronavirus disease bringing the total number of infection in Malawi to 18. Principal Secretary (PS) for Ministry of Health Dr. Dan Namarika confirmed the new case when he updated the public on the state of the pandemic in the country at a news briefing […]
Ministry of Health Principal Secretary Dan Namarika has said in compliance to the Presidential Declaration to recruit 2000 health workers in response to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the ministry has hired 755 workers including laboratory technicians and nurses. President Peter Mutharika directed the Ministry of Health to employ 2 000 health workers to cope […]
Ministry of Health Principal Secretary Dan Namarika has assured the public that they should have trust in the medical personnel that the country has and that the texts they are carrying on coronavirus (Covid-19) are accurate. Namarika was reacting to social media reports that indicated that the positive Covid-19 cases registered so far are not trustworthy. Malawi […]
Government says six people who arrived from China in the past weeks have been quarantined in their homes as a preventive measured on coronavirus which has killed 1500 people so far outside Africa. Ministry of Health principal secretary Dan Namarika said the six have been quarantined in their own homes because the government has no […]
Principal Secretary (PS) for Malawi’s Ministry of Health and Population, Dr. Dan Namarika, has disclosed that the African Continent accounts for almost 25 percent of all the global tuberculosis (TB) and continues to live under ever-growing threat of drug resistant, multi-drug resistant and extensively drug resistant TB. Namarika said despite successes being registered in the […]
A senior government official has said malaria kills eight people every day in Malawi which translates into 3,000 deaths every year. Principal secretary in the ministry of Health and Population Dan Namarika said the last year alone, six million people were down with malaria negatively affecting economic and social lives of people. Namarika said this […]
Malawi commemorated World Malaria Day in Mchinji on Friday with a call from government and development partners on the need for everyone to take an active part in the fight against malaria. Speaking during the commemoration function held at Magawa in Mchinji, Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Dan Namarika said […]
Youth and Society (YAS), a civil society organisation (CSO), has taken to task Ministry of Health Principal Secretary Dan Namarika and 11 other officials over the flouting of the law prohibiting employees of a procuring and disposing public entity from bidding for its auctioned assets. Namalika and other officials bought cars from their ministry in a […]
Secretary for Health Dan Namalika and other officials have bought cars from their ministry in a public auction which Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe has described as illegal and observers call asset stripping. The local press has acquired documents detailing how the sale of the vehicles were done in the Ministry of Health anf Population Services […]
Malawi government says it has set aside K700 million (US$1 million) for the recruitment of medical staff this year, a senior government official in the Ministry of Health has said. Principal secretary in the Ministry of Health Dr. Dan Namarika said this when he presided over the graduation of 163 nurses from Mulanje Mission Nursing […]
Ministry of Health official has told staff to prepare for increased water borne diseases this year following revelation that El Nino will hit Malawi again, saying the weather pattern will cause a lot of flooding. Principal secretary in the ministry Dan Namarika has told a meeting of environmental health experts in Lilongwe to prepare fully […]