Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed that Malawi will totally eliminate Trachoma, a dangerous eye infection by 2020 if communities under medication and supervision adhere to medical precautions and advice. MoH authority highlighted total elimination means reducing the Trachoma cases to anywhere below 5 percent which is not considered as a public health problem. Assistant […]
The St. Andrews Hospital of the Anglican Church in Mtunthama, Kasungu this week embarked on free eye operations on about 100 patients, most of them the elderly. According to the Hospital Administrator, Chris Zambira, the hospital has been conducting eye operations to about 30 patients every month since July 2014 but he said this was […]
Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust has committed 7.3 million British Sterling Pounds (5.1 Billion Kwacha) to Malawi Government for a trachoma elimination campaign, to be rolled out soon. The project was launched in Malawi in October 2014. Ministry of Health spokesperson, Adrian Chikumbe told Lilongwe News Agency, the campaign whose ultimate objective he said was […]
A consortium of partners dedicated to the eradication of avoidable blindness in Southern Africa, has handed over a health facility to Malawi government aimed to complement government effort in eye care services. The Academic Vision Centre which was officially opened by Malawi’s Deputy Minister of Health, Halima Daudi is the first of its kind in […]