Ministry of Health Public Relations Officer (PRO) Henry Salmon Chimbali has resigned with immediate effect from the ministry but kept the reason of quitting close to his chest. “Yes I can confirm that I have quitted from the ministry and this is with immediate effect. There is nothing much I can say,” said Chimbali. He […]
The government has backtracked on plans to introduce hospital user fees with the Ministry of Health saying hat medical services in all public health facilities will remain free. Minister of Health spokesperson Henry Chimbali told Nyasa Times in an exclusive telephone interview that the introduction of user fees are not part of public health reform programmes. […]
Recently there has been a lot of discussion and debate on the intention of government to introduce user fees in all public hospitals in the country. Some are for it while others are against it, based on where you gather your evidence. This is not a new phenomenon. In fact, some claim that this is […]
Malawi has managed to reduce new HIV infections with current figures indicate that new infections now stands at 35,000 per year from 52,000, the country’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has said. In an interview (MoH) spokesperson Henry Chimbali disclosed that the reduction in the new HIV infections are mainly attributed to an increased number of […]
The Ministry of Health has demystified the myth about circumcision craze that has lately been perceived by some Malawians as being an immunity booster against contracting the deadly HIV/AIDS scourge. Malawians are cautioned against false sense of security that circumcision is an immunity booster against HIV/AIDS. The Ministry of Health has said about 150,000 men […]
Malawi government through Ministry of Health has said they are working on a budget to contain he deadly contact-borne Ebola virus which has broken out in some African countries. There have been reports of the outbreak of the deadly disease in Western Africa and in some countries in central Africa. Ministry of Health spokesperson Henry […]
The delays in payment of salaries for medical workers in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba has degenerated into blame game between ministry of health and ministry of finance with one blaming another for the action that has forced the medical workers to stage a strike. Medical workers at Mapale in the city of Mzuzu and […]
Government will start distributing the new Tenafovir based HIV treatment regime by July replacing Staduvidine based therapy that is currently used. Ministry of Health Public Relations Officer Henry Chimbali said the current HIV treatment regime will be completely phased out by 1 July and everyone who is using it will start using the new drug. […]
Malawi government says it will not scale up the use of new anti-malaria drug Duo-Cotecxin until the management policy of the disease is reviewed and the new drug is adopted in the reviewed policy. Duo-cotecxin is one of the artemisinin-based combination therapy drugs highly recommended by World Health Organization to treat malaria. Duo-cotecxin, offers a […]
Immunisation has proven to be one of the cost-effective public health intervention programmes that have saved millions of lives from childhood vaccine preventable diseases, Malawi’s Ministry of Health said in a statement on Thursday. The statement comes as Malawi joins the rest of the continent in celebrating African Vaccination Week from April 22 to April […]
Malawi medication stock levels in districts and central public health facilities have significantly increased, the ministry of health spokesman has said. Ministry of Health spokesperson Henry Chimbali told a local daily that the situation has significantly improved due to the support from government, some organisations and partners who have supported the ministry since the declaration […]
Population Services International Malawi (PSIM) wants to compliment government efforts to reduce new HIV infection among sexually active men and has rolled out a voluntary male medical circumcision programme in southern region districts of Thyolo and Blantyre. The campaign by Malawi government for medical male circumcision as part of its HIV prevention strategy hopes to […]
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 […]
Ministry of Health says it uses strict measures when registering and deregistering patients into the Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART) scheme, which makes it difficult for anyone to be enrolled fraudulently. Public Relation Officer (PRO) in the ministry, Henry Chimbali, disclosed this to Malawi News Agency (Mana) recently in a questionnaire response amid rumours that the […]
Nearly a million Malawians are diagnosed with diabetes a non-communicable disease (NCD) in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood, statistics from Diabetes Association of Malawi have shown. This comes as Malawi joins the rest of the world in dedicating the month of November as a diabetes awareness month. The association’s president Pastor Timothy […]
Plans are underway for Malawi’s Ministry of Health to open the first ever cardiac center in the country at the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in the capital, Lilongwe. Government says once operational, the center, which is now at conceptualization stage, will save millions of Kwacha it spends on sending patients with heart problems to foreign […]
Malawi has the highest number of patients per doctor standing at 88,321 to one, a trend the Ministry of Health hopes will be reversed if the country continues graduating physicians. Statistics compiled by the Economist, an online magazine, puts Malawi on number one on the list of countries with the highest patient to doctor ratio […]
The Ministry of Health says it will begin the twelfth round of elephantiasis and river blindness (Onchocerciasis) drug distribution in October. Elephantiasis is a painful and profoundly disfiguring disease which is usually acquired in childhood with its visible manifestations occurring in adulthood which may lead to either temporary or permanent disability. Whereas river blindness is […]