Angry Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) staff marched to Parliament on Tuesday where they presented a petition in which they have asked President Joyce Banda to cancel her planned presiding over the opening of the dialysis unit at the hospital and the launch of Masters Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology slated on November 6. Instead, the workers […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) has been hit by a congestion of patients especially in the children’s ward, Malawi News Agency (Mana) has established. When Mana visited the hospital on Tuesday, it was discovered that three sick children were made to sleep across one bed in order to mitigate the congestion in the children’s ward. It […]
A water problem has hit hard Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe making it impossible for personnel to provide hygienic health services, Nyasa Times has learnt. Guardians at the hospital have expressed their worries over the development, saying medical personnel are capitalizing on the problem not to attend to their patients. “There’s no […]
Lufeyo Cheliyaya Mphimbi a mortuary supervisor for Kamuzu Central Hospital has been arrested for allegedly chopping off penises from corpses. Mphimbi will answer the charge of supplying human body tissue contrary to Section 16 (B) CAP: 34:05 of Anatomy Act. He recently gave me a newspaper exclusive interview. With permisision from journalist Bright Mhango, Nyasa […]
There was drama at the main gate of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) of Friday when Doctor Heatherwick Ntaba, one of senior doctors at the referral facility, stopped guards from searching his car as a routine exercise. One of the guards who was on duty on the Good Friday told Malawi News Agency (Mana) that Ntaba […]
Police in Lilongwe have arrested three members of staff at Kamuzu Central Hospital on suspicion of having stolen drugs worth more than MK600, 000 from the hospital’s pharmacy. The three are 36-year-old Sekani Ziba, who works as a pharmacist at the hospital, and two guards Davis Chiwaya, 35 and Gift Galimoto, 28. Lilongwe Police publicist […]
Lilongwe Asian Youth Community on Monday morning donated assorted drugs worth K8 Million to the Kamuzu Central Hospital including 395 dosages of rabies vaccine. Spokesperson from the group Ishaq Tutla said the Asian Youth were touched by the reports of drug crisis as it affected all Malawians who access public hospitals. “We are responding to […]
Malawi Government cannot cure every social ill by simply throwing money at it. The drug shortage now devastsing patients at Malawi’s government-run hospitlas, similarly, will not die simply by shooting a large one-time tranche of subvention at it from Treasury for drug purchase. An x-ray of the administrative structure of the Ministry of Health and […]
A week after casting doubts on their capacity, Malawian doctors at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in the capital Lilongwe have successfully separated conjoined twins born to an 18-year-old rural mother. The two babies were born last Friday, February 1, at the referral facility and initially doctors indicated that they were joined on the abdomen and […]
WBY: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” Wise […]
Malawi’s public hospitals are becoming waiting rooms for death with shortages of treatment, the recent being the case of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe where there is shortage of intravenous fluids (IV fluids), no syringes and no blood for sick children. Doctors at the health facilities who spoke to Nyasa Times said they are […]
The Lilongwe based choral grouping, Great Angels on Saturday gave sick children at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) an early Christmas treat when they donated assorted items amounting to over K500, 000. The choir which has established itself as one of prominent gospel music groups, donated soap, Sobo squash, sugar, bread, body oil, cups and plates […]
To the doubting Thomas, seeing is believing. In the pictures of this story, former spokesman of late president Bingu wa Mutharika, Dr Hetherwick Ntaba is seen wearing a medical gear when when the UNDP administrator Helen Clark visited Kamuzu Central Hospital to appreciate the work United Nations volunteers are doing. Ntaba is seen welcoming deputy […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe will in January next year start offering Tele-medicine and Tele-consultations services. Pratamnu Majumder, Assistant Manager for Tixt pap Ticil , a company from India installing electronic network confirmed on Thursday saying, all required equipment have been installed in the key departments and that what remains is to connect the […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali who also doubles as Health Minister on Tuesday persuaded medical doctors, nurses and clinical officers to resume offering their services during the hours when they are entitled to locum , saying government will seriously consider their plea to increase the allowances. The workers want the allowance to rise by about 600 […]
Employees at one of Malawi’s major referral hospitals, Kamuzu Central, have threatened to go an indefinite strike if authorities do not consider their demand for an increment on allowances. The workers want an increment on allowances which they receive when they work during off-days which is popularly known as “locum”. Some workers told Nyasa Times […]
Doctors who treated President Bingu wa Mutharika have revealed that although Mutharika was already dead by the time he arrived at the hospital, his chances to be resuscitated were narrowed by lack of an essential drug-Adrenaline-which is used to resuscitate people stricken by cardiac arrest. “When he arrived we realised we realized that the central […]
In an unprecedented and unparalled development, staff at the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), the referral hospital for the Central region, are asking pregnant women due for delivery, to part with MK1,800 (about US$10) for five litres of diesel for a standby generator to mitigate against power supply failure. The Nation newspaper, which has broken the […]