The Walkers Social Club, a group of diverse professionals who walk every Saturday morning, will this Saturday engage in a kidney health awareness walk in collaboration with Mphukira Foundation. The walk will start at 5am at HS Winehouse in Namiwawa through Chilomoni and climb the Michiru Mountain before trekking down to Namiwawa. Coordinator for The […]
A Malawian man who discovered, in the most terrifying way possible, that he’d been born with only one kidney has turned his brush with death into a mission to protect thousands of others from suffering the same fate. Emmanuel Maliro only found out about his rare condition after collapsing into kidney failure in 2023 — […]
Ministry of Health says preparations are nearly complete to launch dialysis treatment at Mzuzu Central Hospital in October, in a move officials hope will ease the burden on kidney patients in the northern region who have long had to travel hundreds of kilometres for care. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr Dan Namarika, […]
Grief and quiet wailing greeted the return of Tamara Munthali’s remains to Lilongwe on Tuesday, as family, friends and senior government officials gathered at Kamuzu International Airport to receive the body of the Malawi Gaming and Lotteries Authority’s director of projects and social services, who died in South Africa after a battle with acute kidney […]
The family of a senior Malawian government official has moved to set the record straight over the cause of her death, after speculation swept social media suggesting she had died following complications from a Brazilian butt lift procedure. Tamara Munthali, director of projects and social services at the Malawi Gaming and Lotteries Authority (Magla), died […]
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 […]
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 […]
People could avoid chronic kidney disease within a decade after Bristol University scientists found a new genetic treatment to cure a rare disorder in mice. The scientists are hopeful that their new technique – which involves replacing faulty genes with functional ones – could be used to treat a rare genetic disease known as Nephrotic […]
The Kidney Foundation of Malawi has put on hold its planned vigil at State House gates in order for the government to swiftly address the current situation of the dialysis unit at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH). The foundation has been rooting for a dialysis clinic operator Fresenius Medical Care which is embroiled in allegations that […]
A dialysis clinic operator Fresenius Medical Care which is embroiled in allegations that the company paid bribes to in several countries to win or retain business including Malawi’s Ministry of Health which offered it a K262 million three-year contract to supply dialysis services to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe has been implicated in another […]
Out of at least 12 patients with kidney failure that Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) recruits every month, six come from Dedza alone, a development which has worried stakeholders in the district. KCH, situated in Malawi’s Capital Lilongwe, is a referral hospital serving districts in the country’s Central Region. The bad news from Dedza was revealed […]
Head of Malawi Health Equity Network (Mehn) Martha Kwataine has blasted President Bingu wa Mutharika for snatching the only specialist kidney doctor from Kamuzu Central Hospital to be at State House and live thousands of kidney patients, mostly poor people, in the cold. Media reports say Dr Dan Namarika of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) has […]