In a country where access to advanced diagnostic equipment remains the preserve of the privileged few, a single donation this week has thrown into sharp relief both the scale of need and the power of private philanthropy to fill the gaps left by chronic underfunding. Hitesh Anadkat, the businessman behind First Capital Bank, has handed […]
First Capital Bank Group chairperson Hitesh Anadkat on Tuesday handed over a 384-bed prison block to Chichiri Prison in Blantyre worth K350 million with a call to encourage community sentence programmes and drastically reduce the use of custody on minor offences. Anadkat constructed the modern prison block after learning through the media the poor, degrading […]
Professor Mathews Chikaonda, as Board Chairman of Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM), and non-Executive Directors have awarded themselves 125 remuneration hikes, which has been approved with reservations by shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday. Following the approval, now Chikaonda will be pocketing K2, 250,000.00 per annum from K1, 000, 000.00 with his meeting […]
The Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Research Trust and the Anadkat Trust on Monday officially handed over the new Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) Adult Emergency and Trauma Centre building worth over K200 million to the Malawi Government. The new trauma centre is expected to reduce the death rate among emergency admissions, provide a disaster preparedness facility that […]