Staff at the a major referral hospital in Central Malawi, Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) abandoned work on Tuesday demanding government to revise their allowances and salaries as well as addressing the problems facing the health facility. Workers embarked on a work stoppage on Tuesday as they said they feel cheated that government has not revised […]
Malawi Health Equity Network executive director Martha Kwataine has said the health care system at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has turned the facility into “a death trap.” Doctors at KCH are reportedly diagnosing patients using guess work due to lack of essential equipment and the hospital’s laboratory equipment is most times not functional. […]
Malawi doctors and nurses are planning to go on a nationwide strike demanding government ton increase their allowances and higher pay, a situation that will put further strain on the country’s crumbling public healthcare facilities. The medical personnel are complaining that their salaries have been steadily eroded by the country’s galloping inflation rate and weakening buying power of […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital has suspended all theatre operations and others clinical works that require running water because of water crisis that affected the medical facility . Nyasa Times understands that the water problem started on Sunday night due to a burst pipe. But reports indicate that patients who were scheduled to be operated Monday have been rescheduled […]
Two Malawians based in Botswana will next month November cycle for up to 94.7 kilometres in South Africa to raise funds towards the purchase of a heart machine. Gaffar Hassam (Group Chief Executive Officer at Botswana Life) and Nezala Phiri, (Finance Manager at Unitrans Botswana) will sponsor the equipment at the node of Dr. Jonathan […]
One of Malawi’s main referral hospitals Kamuzu Central Hospital in capital Lilongwe has suspended all elective surgeries after the institution has run out of drugs which are administered to patients going for operation. KCH is asking patients scheduled for elective surgery operations which are not considered life-threatening – to contact the hospital to get new […]
One of Malawi’s major referral hospital, Kamuzu Central, has been sued for prescribing wrong drugs to a five year old boy Miracle Gomani. According to the Malawi News, the parents of Miracle are demanding K35 million from the facility. According to the weekly newspaper, the boy was admitted at the hospital in November 2009. But […]
Housing problems for civil servants in Malawi has hit hard with former Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) dwellers seeking an injunction against being evacuated for living illegal. The dwellers sought the court after Ministry of Health ordered them to leave the house by 1 June. The Ministry of Health served the order after Kamuzu Central Hospital […]
Minister of Health, Catherine Gotani, said on Tuesday that Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) mortuary at Malawi’s major referral hospital had bodies rotting after three of its coldrooms broke down because of “gross negligence “by some top officials. The Minister was speaking at a presidential news conference in the capital Lilongwe on Tuesday. President Joyce Banda had […]
In a surprising twist of events, new hospital director for Kamuzu Central Hospital, Dr. Grace Chiudzu refused to allow Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr. Lazarus Chakwera visit the mortuary or even see her to understand and appreciate the problems at the referral hospital. Chakwera sent an advance party of Director of Campaign Felix Jumbe […]
Malawian Minister of Health, Catherine Gotani Hara has apologised unreservedly for the rotting of bodies at the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe for over a month due to broken down cold rooms. Hara who had claimed that she was not aware of the stench that has engulfed the referral health facility, said the situation […]
Officials at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) have buried the decomposed corpses in a mass grave on Monday afternoon after the mortuary at Malawi’s major referral hospital has been shut down as three of its coldrooms have broken down. The bodies were buried at Biwi cemetery near Lilongwe Girls Secondary School. The bodies decomposed following the non-functioning of […]
The mortuary at a major referral in the capital Lilongwe, Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) has been closed down due to “fridge failure”, Nyasa Times understands. Hospital authorities said only one cold-room is working and cannot accommodate all dead bodies. Reports indicate that the mortuary is now full since the other three cold rooms are broken […]
Patients at Kamuzu Central Hospital risk contracting more diseases than being healed as the broken basement sewer pipe has resulted in the dirt flooding into rooms in Male Orthopedic and surgical ward 1B which has seen some patients sleeping on beds above the sewage. A visit to the central region main referral hospital on Thursday […]
Malawi Police has said they arrested owner of SK Security Guard services, Simoleti Kachere, before he could petrol bom Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) for failing to settle bills amounting to K4 million (US$9 592). Lilongwe Police spokesperson Ramsey Mushani confirmed that Kachere wanted to burn the hospital after being irked with the outstanding balance . […]
One of the country’s electronics chain stores, Globe Star International, has donated and installed Television screens at Kamuzu Central Hospital’s KCH waiting rooms and Maula Prison. According to Globe Star’s Manager Movete Banda, the donation which totalled to K1 million aimed at giving the patients and their relations some entertainment. “We understand that for us […]
Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Godfrey Kamanya on Thursday apologised publicly for his disrespectful remarks he made against Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) workers who marched and protested over the shortage of medical supplies, including medications. Speaking on Wednesday in Phalombe at a presidential function aired on state broadcaster MBC, garrulous Kamanya said […]
We, the undersigned, call for URGENT action by the State Legislature and the government of Malawi to rescue Kamuzu Central Hospital from its current crisis. Currently patients are not being served effectively and efficiently because of lack of basic drugs and medical supplies. This has led to unnecessary suffering of patients and preventable deaths of […]