The crisis in Ministry of Health has dominated the Malawi press to buttress the fact that the southern African nation is going through a serious financial squeeze. “QECH dialysis unit ‘shuts down’” was the headline in The Nation, which detailed thatn Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre has closed down its dialysis unit. The paper reports […]
The Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has closed its 7c Section which was treating patients with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and other related cases, the hospital’s authority confirmed to Mana on Friday. The services that 7c Section offered, including the UNC’s projects concerning HIV have since been moved down town to Bwaila Hospital with […]
Ward Councillor for Chigoneka Ward in Lilongwe, Desmod Bikoko, on Friday took donated food and non food items to Kamuzu Central Hospital wealthy half a million Kwacha. The donations comes amid reports of food shortage at the hospital. “I saw it important to come and share the pain which these people are experiencing,” said Bikoko. Receiving the […]
Barely after a few weeks after donating seven computers to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), the one the country’s major referral hospitals seems to be at the heart of the Pakistan Welfare Association (PAW) as they have also donated benches worth MK4 million. PAW outgoing Chairperson Shabbir Bheda said the hospital remains the main focus for […]
Leader of opposition in Parliament, Lazarus Chakwera, has been accused to have “misinformed” the nation on Monday when he told Parliament that the CT scanner at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) has been down for eight months. Chakwera was responding to President Peter Mutharika’s statement during the opening of the 46th session of Parliament which was […]
The Pakistan Welfare Association on Tuesday donated seven high tech computers at Malawi’s largest referral hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH). The Association’s Chairperson Shabbir Bheda said they extended their good gesture following a request by the hospital’s management that they are in dire need of the computers. “We couldn’t do otherwise because all along, we […]
Malawi’s major central hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe has suspended its laboratory services just weeks after it closed down its x-ray operations, a sign that health services in this impoverished nation are collapsing. A memo seen by Nyasa Times from Hospital director Jonathan Nkhoma to members of staff says all patients seeking lab services […]
A group of 28 Indian doctors left the country Wednesday, September 16, 2015 after conducting a total of 310 life-saving surgeries and seeing over 2,000 out-patients at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. Organised by Rotary Club of Lilongwe, (RCL) in conjunction with other Rotary clubs in India, the 10-day operation also saw the visiting doctors […]
A group of 30 medical doctors from India on Monday arrived in the country to support Malawi Government in providing health services. Malawi is experiencing shortage of medical personnel. The contingent of the h ealth workers are in the country with support from Rotary International and they are expected to assist 300 patients at Kamuzu Central […]
Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM), the country’s premier mobile service provider, has given Operation Smile, a South African based team of surgeons, K2.41 million to carry out free screening and surgeries at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. The team, which is already in the country and got the donation on Thursday, provide free life-changing surgery and related […]
Over 250 Lilongwe residents with various dental complications have been operated on by specialists from Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) free of charge- courtesy of the Rotary Club of Lilongwe which sponsored a dental camp at the government referral hospital from Monday to Friday last week. According to president of Rotary Club Sophie Kalinde, the Rotarians sponsored the […]
Premier mobile network service provider, TNM has handed over medical equipment worth K8.7 million to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) which will enable the public referral facility to set up the High Dependency Unit. The donation is in response to hospital authority recommendation to develop a Dependency Unit in the burns unit so that children who are […]
Tension, fear and anxiety gripped Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in the capital Lilongwe on Friday afternoon, when news spread that hospital was about to receive mass casualties from a fire accident at Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM). Doctors, nurses and other hospital staff were seen panicking as hospital security personnel ordered vehicles and people hanging […]
Samuel Jickson, whose wife was killed by unidentified dogs in Lilongwe on February 17, describes her death is the most tragic experience he will live to remember. Jickson, 38, clarified that the deceased, Mwatitha Jickson, 26, met her death as she was going to a nearby under-five clinic to get their third born child vaccinated. […]
State prosecutors on Monday pressed one more charge of theft for the Lilongwe bogus doctor, Rasford Gogoda, following recovery of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) doctor’s stolen laptop and medical equipment in the suspect’s bag. Gogoda, 26, was arrested on February 3 at KCH after someone who knew him well blew the cover when he spotted […]
Big Brother Africa Hotshots representative, Siphelire Chitambo, fondly known as Sipe brought Valentine cheer to a children’s ward at Kamuzu Central Hospital on Saturday with assorted items which included Likuni Phala, soap and other utensils. The items comprised maize meal, Vaseline, Likuni Phala, biscuits and soap. were bought from a cool K1 million donated by China-based businessperson Armand Dondase. Dondase […]
A man accused of posing as a medical doctor at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has pleaded guilty after being formally charge at Lilongwe Magistrate Court on Thursday. Rasford Gogoda pleaded “guilty” when he appeared before Lilongwe Magistrate Court. He asked to be released on bail by the court refused his bid. It emerged […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested Lansford Gogoda aged 26 who was masquerading as a medical doctor despite that he was unqualified. It is reported that nurses were unable to read some of the medical reports he had compiled after having treated patients and this raised more suspicions. Gogoda is said to have raised more […]