Immediate past president Joyce Banda has called upon President Peter Mutharika, Vice-president Saulos Chilima and opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera to bury their political hatchets and come together to deal with public health crisis. Banda, who leads the People’s Party (PP). Said her heart bleeds with reports of poor drug supply to public hospitals and that […]
Malawi government says tuberculosis (TB) is now back as a top infectious killer , saying in 2017 it killed 2 700 people out Of the 1 000 people who tested positive for the bacterial disease, the main cause of deaths related to antimicrobial resistance and the leading killer of people with HIV. A senior official […]
Patients seeking x-ray services at Mangochi district hospital are now forced to travel 60km to Monkey Bay following the unavailability of chemicals for the exercise as well as the renovation of a room where the x-ray machine is placed. Many patients are expressing worry that they are incurring extra expenses on transport to and from […]
Ombudsman Martha Chizuma Mwangonde has made a frantic plea to National Assembly to increase a budget to mental health department from the current one per cent to five per cent of the health national budget, saying the mental health situation is pathetic and critical. Mwangonde made the plea to Parliamentary Committee on Health which summoned her […]
Indian High Commissioner to Malawi, Suresh Kumar Menon said 40 per cent of Malawian patients sent for treatment in India would have been treated in the country if the public hospitals had adequate medical equipment and specialist care. Kumar Menon was speaking at Mzuzu Central Hospital Wednesday when his government donated medical equipment worth $500 […]
Minister of Health and Population, Atupele Muluzi said his ministry was aware of the rise in non-communicable diseases in the country when he launched Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries (NCDI) and Poverty report in Lilongwe on Thursday. “These diseases are not limited to the rich or poor people, they are affecting everyone. This report gives us […]
Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi has said government has set aside K5 billion for the recruitment of additional medical personnel in public health facilities in the country this year and that they are determined to ensure the availability of medicines and medical supplies to make universal health coverage a reality. Muluzi made the revelation in […]
Paramount Chief Kyungu of Chitipa and Karonga has commended Karonga District Hospital staff for their expertise in saving lives of people who suffered serious injuries in a bus accident on Tuesday. Kyungu made the remarks Wednesday after cheering survivors who were admitted to the hospital following the accident that occurred at Tenenthe along the Chitipa-Karonga […]
The United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development’s (DFID) has announced a £50.1 million (about K47.5 billion) six year family planning programmes in Malawi under the ‘Tsogolo Langa’ [My future] programme. A statement issued by DfID made available to Nyasa Times says the family planning services was announced by Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin. […]
A major new study has shown that rotavirus vaccination reduced infant diarrhea deaths by 34% in Mchinji a central region distrct bordering with Zambia with high levels of child deaths. The study led by scientists at the University of Liverpool, UCL, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and partners in Malawi provides the first […]
Malawi’s Ministry of Health (MoH), under the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP), has procured state-of-the-art mobile van clinics in a bid to intensify it’s strategic plan to reassess active cases of the deadly disease. MoH publicity officer Joshua Malango said NTP has seven of these named mobile van intervention and are stationed Blantyre City (2), the Capital City Lilongwe (2), […]
Ministry of Health and Population on Monday opened six newly constructed operating theaters at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) worth K 2.8 billion from Norwegian Church Aid (NCA). Speaking during the opening ceremony in Lilongwe, Minister of Health and Population, Atupele Muluzi said that the new theaters are a sign of how government is committed to […]
Malawi’s largest referral hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital has received a K3 billion operation theatre, the first of its kind in the country as for the first time the hospital will have separate operation rooms for children and accident victims. The Norwegian Church Aid has donated the six operation theatre wing which will include one for pediatric, two for orthopedic […]
The shortage of ambulances at Phalombe District Health Office due to breakdowns is affecting service delivery as patients from distant health centres take long to be ferried to the district hospital. According to the district’s health officials, the district has only three ambulances against 16 health facilities spread across the district. Speaking in an interview […]
Some 33 newly recruited nurses and midwifery technicians at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre have gone for three months without pay. One of the nurses said some of them are now on go slow at the busy referral hospital, saying they were living a miserable life as they are unable to buy food, pay […]
Government has challenged Mangochi District Council to step up efforts that will see improved up-take of family planning methods which is presently at 31 per cent in the district, the lowest in the country. Principal Secretary for Ministry of Health and Population, Dr. Dan Namarika made the call on Saturday during this year’s World Population […]
Women who go to most public hospitals to seek contraceptive services for child spacing are being turned away due to acute shortages of the drug. But spokesperson for the Ministry of Health Joshua Malango is blaming councils for their failure to prioritise on drugs which they buy, saying the ministry no longer buys drugs. “Councils […]
The Ministry of Health and Population in conjunction with the Office of the Ombudsman on Thursday launched hospital Ombudsman to ensure improved service delivery in health facilities. Speaking during the launch in Lilongwe, Minister of Health and Population, Atupele Muluzi said the ministry prioritizes improvement of linkage between users and healthcare service providers to increase […]