Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe is refusing to admit patients suffering from TB because the hospital stopped providing food to patients for over a month now. A source at the hospital said even serious TB cases are not admitted to the hospital because the hospital owes a caterer, whom the administration had engaged to provide food […]
As other public hospitals are struggling to have adequate and appropriate medical equipment, Ntcheu District Hospital has a reason to smile following a donation of assorted medical equipment worth K3 million from International Ladies Benevolent Society (ILBS) of Japan. Speaking during the handover ceremony of the equipment at hospital Japanese Ambassador to Malawi, Shuichiro Nishioka […]
The Norwegian Ambassador on Wednesday handed over Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and High Dependence Unit (HDU) project to Kamuzu Central Hospital. Receiving the project on behalf of the hospital, Minister of Health Dr. Peter Kumpalume thanked the Government of Norway for helping people of Malawi through this infrastructure and assured them that the ministry will […]
Chief of Health Services in the ministry of Health Charles Mwansambo has said plans by government to have paying treatment in public district hospitals is on track. He, however, said the government will still continuee with the universal free health services. “We are introducing the paying treatment in district hospitals to cater for those who […]
Minister of Health Dr Peter Kumpalema says utilisation of evidence in decision making process in health sector can help to improve health outcomes and reduce high disease burden in Malawi. Kumpalume said this in Lilongwe during the launch of guidelines for evidence use in policy making process. He said evidence can help reveal health issues […]
Government has said it has put on hold its decision to private public hospital mortuaries due to lack of money. Through reforms government is undertaking, it want to delink mortuaries from public hospitals using the Private Public Partnership (PPP) law, “to enable private people to run the mortuaries.” But Ministry of Health spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said […]
Health minister Peter Kumpalume and the ministry’s public relations officer have contradicted on whether Malawians will start paying in public hospitals or not. Kumpalume said the government has no plans to force Malawians pay in public hospitals. “We do not have the immediate plans, not now,” said Kumpalume. However the ministry spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said […]
Many Malawian women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds and the situation is dire at Chimoto Health Centre in Dedza, parliament has learnt. The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as pregnant women are put through the trauma of having […]
Rumphi East Member of Parliament (MP) Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party-PP) has expressed concern that hospital patients in Rumphi were forced to be in mixed sex wards. Kalua said in Parliament that at Chitimba and Jalawe rural hospital, men and women share the same wing “which is contrary to the principles of natural justice.” He said Chitimba has no […]
Minister of Health Dr. Peter Kumpalume on Tuesday assured Members of Parliament that his Ministry has secured funding to resume construction of 15 stalled health centers across the country. Kumpalume was responding to questions posed at him by members of parliament that complained of the need for health centers in their constituencies citing long distance […]
United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) on Friday handed over family planning and maternal health medical supplies to Ministry of Health wealth K335 million. Handing over of Medical Equipment for Family planning and Maternal comes at a time when Malawi is experiencing critical shortage essential medical supplies which include drugs. UNFA Country representative to Malawi, Dr Rogaia Abdelrahim […]
Non governmental organisations in Thyolo are blowing a whistle to alert authorities that Thyolo District Hospital has run out of sexually transmitted infection drugs and diabetis medicine. The NGOs, that include those involved in youth welfare and the elderly, say the situation is so dire that it risks lives of people in the district. “People […]
Mwanza District Hospital workers including nurseson Tuesday staged a strike as part of their demand to have District Health Officer (DHO) Ralph Piringu and District Nursing Officer (DNO), transferred for allegedly ill-treating them and other junior members of staff. They were protesting that Pirungu has been ill treating the staff and that they are not […]
A renowned health activist Martha Kwataine has warned government against firing health workers suspected to have stolen medical drugs as ordered by President Peter Mutharika, saying the government would lose more money in law suits than thefts of the drugs. Kwataine was reacting to Mutharika’s order to Secretary to Government George Mkondiwa that he should […]
Ministry of Health will on June 30, 2016 launch the first ever National Health Communication Strategy at a function to be held in Lilongwe. During the day, the Ministry will also be launching National Malaria comprehensive communication strategy and Minister of Health Dr peter Kumpalume is scheduled to grace the occasion. Fredson Kamchira, Health Education […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika on Monday opened the new Nkhatabay District Hospital where among other things he warned hospital staff against vandalism and theft of drugs and equipment at the new facility. Over the past months, under President Mutharika’s orders, Police have intensified the fight against drug theft in hospitals. “To you the staff of […]
President Peter Mutharika has said he has issued a decree that any public health worker found stealing medical drugs would be fired immediately and will not be getting salary as was the case before. “Do not dare to steal. We will fire you immediately if we catch you. We will not even pay you. You […]
Malawi Police in Mzuzu have arrested a hospital worker at Mzuzu Central Hospital and are upbeat they will catch a “big fish” on theft of drugs at the referral hospital following the arrest of a laboratory assistant who was found with cartons of medical drugs and diagnostic equipment which he was sending to Lilongwe. Peter […]