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 […]
World-Wide Pharmaceuticals (WWP), which has been contracted on emergency to service the dialysis clinic at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), has added three more machines to the hospital. This will assist in easing number of days patients with kidney problems would be required to be on the machine. Previously, KCH dailysis clinic used to conduct three […]
Bwaila Lions Club in Lilongwe donated food supplements to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH)’s Children’s Cancer Ward on Saturday to enhance the strength of children that are under medication. The donation included cartons of milk, trays of eggs as well as a wheel chair. The gesture comes ahead of the World Childhood Cancer Day to be […]
Lilongwe Water Board on Friday (donated 156 gas cylinders to the Kamuzu Central Hospital’s isolation center at Bingu National Stadium. The donation is worth K10 million. Speaking during the handover of the gas cylinders, LWB Board Chairperson, Engineer George Kajanga said the donation is part of the Board’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). “We felt duty-bound […]
The Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority (PPDA) has given second chance to controversial South African owned dialysis operator Fresenius Medical Care (FMC). In a letter to secretary of health dated February 1, PPDA has been ordered to retender the procurement of dialysis services across the country. FMC previously had lost both the technical […]
Bingu National Stadium makeshift hospital to treat coronavirus patients started its operations on Saturday. Kamuzu Central Hospital director Jonathan Ngoma said the facility is finally ready to start Covid-19 admissions. The site is an extension for KCH which is currently overwhelmed with Covid-19 admissions. Meanwhile, ministers of Health and Finance say they are satisfied with […]
Lilongwe-based Global Hope Mobilization (GLOHOMO) has constructed a K75 million theatre at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in the capital city Lilongwe as one way of responding to COVID-19 response. GLOHOMO executive director Caleb Thole said they decided to support the isolation centre with the state-of-art theatre for specialized care and other complication including expectant mothers. […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) has been supplied with additional oxygen cylinders to support in the treatment of Covid-19 patients. This follows a critical shortage of the same as most cylinders available were dedicated to Covid-19 patients who are coming to the facility enmasse. This disadvantaged other patients requiring oxygen. But health spokesperson, Joshua Malango, says […]
Minister of Health, Khumbize Chiponda has said the commissioning of a gas plant at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe will help reduce deaths because KCH and surrounding hospitals will have access to oxygen at all times. The minister made the remarks on Tuesday during the commissioning of the equipment held at KCH premises, a […]
In a bid to alleviate some problems facing the health sector in the country, Lilongwe Rotary club in conjunction with UK-based, York Rotary club has made a donation of various medical tools at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe. Speaking during the donation at Kamuzu central hospital on Wednesday Lilongwe Rotary Club President William Matambo […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has shut down its dialysis unit because its machines are not functioning, putting lives of patients with renal failure and other kidney problems at risk. About 37 patients suffering from chronic kidney failure from KCH have since been moved to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre —the only […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has run out of coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic isolation space and treatment centre. Hospital administrator Jonathan Ngoma said all the 15 bed space is already taken up. “We are supposed to have 15 Covid-19 patients but we are currently having 21 of them. “We are engaging the ministry of Health […]
Following an urgent SOS call by Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) made in national newspapers pleading for further assistance for personal protective equipment (PPEs), charitable organization Round Table Malawi has donated some worth MK1.92 million (approx. US$2,500). A situation report presented on Saturday by co-chairperson of Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, Dr. John Phuka indicates that […]
Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL) has donated various personal protective equipment to Kamuzu Central Hospital worth K2.2 million to scale up preventive measures of coronavirus. Speaking during the handover ceremony in Lilongwe, PIL managing director, Martin Msimuko said as part of the business sector, his company has come in to assist government to avert the possible negative impact […]
The Lilongwe chapter of the Beyond Beauty Ladies Ministry has planned to reach out to patientsat Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwein theBurns Unit 3B on February 29 from 1;30p to 4pm, under the theme ‘His Love In Action’ James 1:27. Burns Unit is a ward where people that have been involved in fire accidents are […]
Patients in one of the wards at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe had a big surprise Thursday when rainwater flooded their ward. Patients in Ward 4A at the main referral hospital could be seen to be helpless in a video clip that is circulating in social media platforms. Hospital officials said the hospital evacuated some […]
Lilongwe magistrates’ court has found a clinical officer with a case to answer for allegedly issuing a fake medical report to a cashgate suspect. Graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) public relations officer Egritta Ndala said the court found Charles Phiri, a senior clinical officer at Kamuzu central hospital with a case to answer. […]
Main public referral hospital for the centre, Kamuzu central hospital vital machine for scanning, CT scan has been down for 10 months and poor patients are told to seek services from private hospitals at a cost of K120 000 but those who cannot pay for the services have nowhere else to go. A CT scanner […]