There is a kind of honesty that only arrives once denial has become impossible, and Malawi’s health system produced two versions of it in the space of a single news cycle this week. At Kamuzu Central Hospital, it took the form of a number: nearly 5,000 people now waiting for surgery, a queue grown so […]
Malawi’s public hospitals are teetering on the brink of a full-blown medicine crisis, campaigners have dramatically warned, after it emerged the country’s Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) is failing to pay foreign suppliers a jaw-dropping $18 million debt. The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has fired off an explosive letter to the […]
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation will conduct a Measles-Rubella Supplementary Vaccination Campaign from September 21 to 25, 2026, across the country. According to a statement from the Ministry, all children aged 9 months to 9 years are eligible for vaccination, regardless of their previous vaccination status. “Children 6 months to 5 years will also […]
Malawi’s health system is confronting a slow‑burn crisis that has now become impossible to ignore. What was once described as “pressure” on referral hospitals has hardened into systemic failure, visible in broken infrastructure, chronic staff shortages and a financing model that no longer matches the country’s needs. The deterioration of the four central hospitals — […]
Malawi’s Health Minister Madalitso Baloyi has called on district councils across the country to set up paying wards in their hospitals, insisting the scheme is helping to raise vital funds for the struggling public health sector. Baloyi made the appeal while officially opening a new paying ward at Kasungu District Hospital — a facility built […]
Minister of Health, Madalitso Baloyi, spent Wednesday night working alongside midwives at Mangochi District Hospital’s maternity wing, in a visit aimed at gaining first-hand insight into the challenges facing the facility. The visit follows concerns raised in Parliament by Mangochi Municipal MP Rodrick Chiwaya, who described a maternity section grappling with staff shortages, limited bed […]
Malawi has secured a US$27 million loan from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development to fund construction of Blantyre District Hospital, a project that has been talked about for more than two decades without a single brick being laid. Minister of Health and Sanitation Madalitso Baloyi told Parliament on Monday that funding for the […]
Minister of Health and Sanitation Madalitso Baloyi says government is rolling out measures to fix long-standing gaps in healthcare access, from ambulance shortages to stalled clinic construction and a lack of specialised medical services. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Baloyi said decentralisation has handed district councils and local communities a bigger say in deciding health […]
After years of making its mark in Malawi’s education sector, Maranatha International is now turning its attention to healthcare, unveiling an ambitious plan to establish medical facilities across the country in a move aimed at improving access to affordable health services. The organisation has announced that it will this week officially open three health facilities […]
Renowned governance, human rights campaigner Undule Mwakasungula, says the death of Israella Bushiri – daughter to Prophet Shepherd Bushiri – while receiving treatment in Kenya should remind authorities at the Capital Hill about the urgent need and importance of investing more in ‘our health sector as a country’. Mwakasungula observed that Malawi has not done […]
The United Kingdom-based Khalsa Aid International has donated medical supplies to Blantyre District Health Office (DHO) to boost the response of public health facilities to one of the world’s deadliest pandemics. The organization made the donation in partnership with the Sikh Association of Malawi (SAM), which recently donated to the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima has expressed hope that the opening of the privately owned state-of-the-art Uromed Clinic will help the Government of Malawi save resources on sending patients abroad to receive specialized treatment. Chilima made the sentiments when he presided over the launch of the facility at a colourful ceremony that took place at Area […]
Stakeholders in Malawi’s health sector have reiterated calls that domestic financing of the country’s health budget is crucial in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) which seeks to ensure that everyone has access to quality healthcare services. This was said over the weekend in Salima District during an interface meeting between UHC coalition and Members of […]
Baby Dylan Alipo was born July 1, 2020 with a condition called Billiary Atresia which has kept him in hospital since birth and to save his life, he needs to have a liver transplant to be done in India that will cost US$30,000 (about K24 million). The baby’s parents, Victor and Hannah Chagona are thus […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has dragged a South African medical supplier, Fresenius, to graft-busting body, Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) over a ‘shady’ deal in procurement of a dialysis machine for Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) . A notice served to ACB indicates that HRDC is troubled with how Fresenius Medical Care got the deal […]
As attention from stakeholders is focused assisting the fight against COVID-19 in various ways, Zomba Central Hospital has received an equally essential hospital medical equipment of different kinds for use in theatre, accidents-emergency department and intensive care unit (ICU). The was courtesy of Women of Virtue International Christian Charity Organisation (WOVICCO), which secured hospital equipment […]
Minister of Health Khumbize Chiponda and Minister of Information Gospel Kazako have announced that government has decided to go ahead with acquiring the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, despite concerns about its efficacy. “We are going ahead as planned,” said Chiponda on Monday evening. Malawi has acquired 1.5 million doses and that additional ones were on the […]
Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC), a Canadian non-governmental organization (NGO) – has responded positively to the appeal President Lazarus Chakwera made to the international community for financial and material support towards national efforts to combat Covid-19. HPIC has donated K72 million worth of essential drugs to the Ministries of Health and Homeland Security. The drugs have been channeled to […]