National Association of Nurses and Midwives has asked the government to speed up payment of salaries for public health workers, saying the delay is infringement of the rights of the workers. National Association of Nurses and Midwives (NONM) executive director Harriet Bwanali said the delay in paying salaries to the public health workers will affect […]
Office of the Auditor General says it has finalised a report on the ministry of health scam which saw staff stealing millions of money meant for a US funded project. Spokesman for the office Lawrence Chinkhuta said the report and recommendations have since been sent to the ministry for action against the 60 members of […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested a member of staff at Bwaila District Hospital, thwarting a scheduled protests as the arrested person was the ring leader. Junior staff at the hospital planned the peaceful protests to force the government transfer the district health officer Dr M. Mwale whom they are accusing of gross mismanagement and […]
A youth health civil society has asked the ministry of Health to transfer five top management at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe on fraud and corruption allegations. In a letter to the ministry of Health principal secretary, board chair of Youth Health Network, Charles Kapichi alleges the district health officer Dr M. Mwale of gross mismanagement. […]
Department of International Development (DFID), has written Malawi Government on behalf of Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) development partners to announce suspension of funding to the procurement of three Digital X-ray Machines process, following Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) issuing prohibition order on the same contract. The x-ray machine in some public hospitals, like Kamuzu Central, are […]
Minister of Health Peter Kumpalume declined to name and shame drug suppliers who failed to deliver after being asked to do so un parliament. Kumpalume was asked by a legislator to name the drug suppliers when the minister said in a statement in Parliament that public hospitals have nearly exhausted most of their drug budgets, […]
Malawi Interfaith Aids Association (MIAA) on Thursday petitioned Parliament asking them to help fixing health service system which they described as dwindling and collapsing. Bishop Tsukuluza read the petition before presenting it to chairperson of parliamentary committee on health, Juliana Lunguzi. “In terms of hospital equipment, the country’s health sector can as well be regarded […]
One person died of cholera on Monday in Machinga whilst seven others were unattended at a health centre in the district after health workers boycotted work to force the government pay them overtime allowances. Poor sanitation exacerbates the spread of cholera. Reports from Namanja Health Centre indicate the health workers are not happy with the […]
The development of a country is directly linked to how it provides essential services to its populace, chief among them being the provision and accessibility of quality health services. In health sector, the maternal and newborn health situation is a major indicator and it gives a general picture of a country’s basic care provided to […]
Two officials working in the Ministry of Health are suspended as they are being tried for rape . And there are 26 personnel from various public health facilities across the country interdicted for theft. The rape suspects are Kanjere Msakambewa and Daniel Gama , a medical assistant and health surveillance assistant (HSA) , respectively. Msakambewa […]
The crisis in Ministry of Health has dominated the Malawi press to buttress the fact that the southern African nation is going through a serious financial squeeze. “QECH dialysis unit ‘shuts down’” was the headline in The Nation, which detailed thatn Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre has closed down its dialysis unit. The paper reports […]
Zika virus – which may cause severe birth defects – could be a bigger threat to global health than the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in Africa and the World Health Organization has declared the Zika virus an international public health emergency, a rare move that signals the seriousness of the outbreak […]
Government says it is replacing medical doctors with specially trained administrators as district health officers so that the clinicians can be well utilised in their area of medicine. Ministry of Health spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said the ministry is piloting this in nine districts where there are non medicine personnel heading public district hospitals. He said […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika has warned all those stealing government drugs and sell to private markets that his government will mete out the harshest measures so as to ensure that ordinary people benefit fully from government services. He was speaking at Masasa Primary School ground in Ntcheu where he presided over this year’s official launch […]
Information minister Jappie Mhango has told district health officers to change their mindset and be innovative by growing maize to feed patients. Mhango said this in Chitipa when he donated 100 bags of maize and 10 bags of beans at the district hospital donated by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mhango said it is […]
Zomba General Hospital has phased a malnutrition ward which admitted children suffering from kwashiokor and marasmus. Many parents with children suffering from the diseases have expressed concern that their children have now been abandoned in children ward, a ward that admits genera diseases like malaria. One woman said care in the children’s ward is below […]
A 24 year old woman has died at Mponela Rural Hospital due to a ruptured uterus after authorities failed to refer her to Dowa district hospital because of lack of fuel. A private radio station Zodiak said on Sunday, Mponela health centre had informed officials at Dowa District Hospital but they could not send an […]
Drugs worth five MK5 billion are stolen every year in the country’s public hospitals, Minister of Health Dr. Peter Kumpalume revealed when he visited Nsanje District Health Office Thursday. Kumpalume said every year government allocates K17 billion for drug procurement of which one third of the total allocation is lost due to drug theft. The […]