Some public hospitals have halted ambulance services and delivery of medicine to health centres due to lack of fuel money as the government has not funded them for the last two months. The situation in most hospitals, including Dedza, Mangochi, Ntcheu is very dire as the district hospitals are failing to ferry the medical supplies […]
Chiradzulu magistrates Court has on Tuesday given bail to Chiradzulu District Health Officer Dr. Gift Chinomba after earlier arresting him on suspicion he stole government medical drugs worth K10 million. The court has slapped him with theft by public servant charge. Chinomba is accused of approving procurement of medical drugs from Southern region Medical Stores […]
Malawi Police in Chiradzulu have arrested a top most head of district public health services in connection with the theft of K10 million medical drugs. Chiradzulu district police public relations officer Victoria Chirwa confirmed the arrest of Dr Sten Gift Chinomba, aged 30, from Mpowola Village in the area of Traditional Authority [T/A] Kuntumanji in […]
A health rights activist has asked the government to halt its plans to introduce user fees in public hospitals, saying the government is not prepared for that. Patients and Health Community Foundation executive director Awali Alide said there were a lot of things the government needed to sort out before forcing people to pay for […]
Ministry of Health officials are battling rumours that the country has suspected cases of yellow fever following an outbreak in some parts of Africa where 200 people have died so far. Ministry of Health spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said there were no suspected cases of yellow fever as reported by Capital Radio through tweets and radio. […]
Health officials in Mwanza have expressed concern over the high rate of Mozambicans seeking medical treatment in the border district saying they have overwhelmed health service delivery. District Health Officer Raphael Piringu said out of four patients referred to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, two or three are Mozambicans and out of the 150 […]
Ministry of Health has confirmed the report by Nyasa Times of the existence of a National Audit Office (NAO) audit report chronologizing on how some dishonest officials from the ministry managed to loot the donated funds from the US- funded Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and that K2.5billion was looted between 2013 and […]
The National Audit Office (NAO) has finally submitted an audit report chronologizing on how some dishonest officials from Ministry of Health managed to loot the donated funds from the US- funded Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In December 2015, Malawi Government suspended 63 workers from the Ministry. These included the Director of human […]
The Mangochi District Hospital is probing reports that a nurse and a medical assistant delayed an ambulance from a health centre to Mangochi District Hospital which led to the death of a 15 year old pregnant women. The hospital spokesperson Harold Kabuluzi said the office of the district health office has received reports that the […]
Players in the health sector from the government, Non-governmental organisations, health planners and professionals, the donor community and the media will on Friday come together in what has been dubbed ‘Knowledge Café’ to discuss practical approaches in strengthening the health sector in Malawi. The Café, will among others, involve discussions, debates and question and answer […]
Government has rejected claims by Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) that it owes the trust K7 billion, saying treasury paid all arrears to CMST and other organizations long ago. The statement by Nations Msowoya, spokesperson for treasury sharply contradicts that of minister of Health Peter Kumpalume who acknowledged the government owes CMST huge sums of […]
Government has committed itself to honour its outstanding debt of around MK7.5 billion to the Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) accumulated in the period 2011 to 2014. This was said by the minister of health Dr Peter Kumpalume on Friday when he visited the CMST headquarters in Lilongwe with the aim of appreciating the various […]
Patients at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe on Wednesday waited much longer to get medication as Out of Patients Department (OPD) opened later than 2 pm after medical assistants protested against using the dilapidated room which was a danger to their lives. All medical assistants assembled at the hospital’s café son after reporting for duties at […]
The Ministry of Health has said there is no need to panic over reports of Yellow Fever outbreak, saying the risk of infection in Malawi is minimal but government will increase its surveillance in the borders by screening travellers coming from or on transit through Yellow fever-risk countries. There is no specific treatment for the […]
Blantyre Health office has suspended four health workers for negligence after they closed health facilities because of, among other reasons, attending workshops. The suspension of the four health workers follows the closure of Zingwanga Health Centre and Pensulo Rural Hospital. District Health Officer Medson Matchaya flanked by other district health officials learned with shock that […]
Chairperson for the Parliamentary Committee on Health Juliana Lunguzi on Friday said that District Hospitals across the country are receiving inadequate financial funding from government which is leading to poor quality of service delivered to patients. Lunguzi was speaking during a Health Reform Symposium Agenda meeting held on Friday in Lilongwe. She made the remarks […]
Malawi and US governments have joined hands to fight rampant drug thefts in Malawi which is costing both governments about US$11 million (over MK7 billion) per year. Speaking at Bingu International Conventional Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe alongside the launch of two campaigns to fight drug theft in the country. The Global Fund campaign, ‘I Speak […]
Government says it is working out modalities on how Mozambicans living on border districts with Malawi can pay for health services they access in public hospitals. Minister of Health Peter Kumpalume said this on Tuesday in Blantyre when he visited College of Medicine campus of the University of Malawi. ”We are working out modalities on […]