Malawi government hit hard by cash flow problems, has failed to employ 51 doctors, 21 of which have now secured jobs in Lesotho. President of Medical Doctors in Malawi Association, Douglas Lungu confirmed the development. “We have sunk so low, this government has really sunk so low,” fumed Lungu, a medical doctor himself by profession. […]
A professional radiographer at Mulanje Hospital is in the hands of police for attempting to rape a client who went to find out whether she is pregnant or not. Police told Nyasa Times Thursday that 28 year old Kenneth Mkorongo asked the client, whose name we have deliberately withheld on ethical reasons, to undress when […]
Malawi government says it has completed installing CCTV cameras at Central Medical Stores in a bid to fiercely combat rampant medical drugs in its public hospitals. Ministry of Health spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said in an interview that the next phase would be to install the CCTV cameras in central hospitals before rolling it out in […]
A Catholic mission Francisco Palan Hospital popularly known as Mtengowanthenga has been awarded with two shields by the Ministry of Health (MoH) following the hospital’s excellent perfomance in discharging health care services. The official presentation of the awards-Excellence in Infection Prevention (IP) and Reproductive Health Services (RHS) took place on Wednesday and was presided over […]
Police in Phalombe district are keeping in custody two Ministry of Health employees for stealing hospital solar panels. Police arrested a Medical Assistant, Edison Nkhonjera, 33, and Edward Buleya 38, on Sunday 25th October, 2015. The two, who are staff at Gogo Nazombe Health Centre in the district, have since been charged with Theft by […]
Media watchdog Misa Malawi has faulted the ministry of health’s for issuing a blanket ban to its public hospital spokespersons commenting on drug crisis in the country, saying the as retrogressive in the wake of advocacy to have access to information legislation. The medicine scarcity has reached unprecedented levels in public hospitals. This means journalists […]
A week after the Mchinji First Grade Magistrate sentenced Blessings Chisale who posed as a Medical Doctor at the district hospital to seven years imprisonment with hard labour, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre has registered yet another quack doctor, Zamil Michael, 31. Hospital Administrator Themba Mhango confirmed of the development saying the suspect was apprehended Monday by the hospital’s […]
Ntcheu district hospital can now afford a smile after Members of Parliament in the district donated assorted items worth K2 million as food budgets fall. Malawi government is scalling down on patient meals, as figures reveal meals in public hospitals have been reduced from three a day to one a day as a measure to […]
The latest Malawian fake doctor, Blessings Chisale, has strated serving a seven-year jail term after he was sentenced by the Mchinji First Grade Magistrate Court. Chisale, real name Veriano Fungulani, was arrested last week at Mchinji district hospital where he posed as a medical doctor and was charged with an offence of impersonating public officers, which is […]
The Medical Doctors Union of Malawi (MDUM) and the Society of Medical Doctors (SMD) have given government a 14-day ultimatum to employ 51 recently graduated medical doctors or face industrial action by all medical doctors in the country. This follows government’s failure to recruit recently graduated doctors within its health delivery system. This, according to […]
A group of 28 Indian doctors left the country Wednesday, September 16, 2015 after conducting a total of 310 life-saving surgeries and seeing over 2,000 out-patients at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. Organised by Rotary Club of Lilongwe, (RCL) in conjunction with other Rotary clubs in India, the 10-day operation also saw the visiting doctors […]
For Malawi to register remarkable improvement in the health delivery service, there is need for closer collaboration between local and international health research institutions to ensure that researches being done are of high quality, a development which can influence policy formulation. The remarks were made by the Associate Director for the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust […]
My late step mum, Peliyawezi NyaChipeta Gondwe, was allergic to Quinine (anti-malarial medication). Although this was clearly stated on her chart, a medical assistant at the Mchinji Hospital, in his own wisdom, decided to administer this to her “because this is the medication we use to treat malaria.” So she died. My father was a […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and leader of opposiiton Lazarus Chakwera has asked government to immediately stop holding patients in public hospitals as prisoners with the introduction of ‘one meal per day’ to the sick Malawians. Speaking in Mangochi on Thursday during a campaign for local government polls, Chakwera said government should resume normal rations […]
The Human Resources for Health (HRH) Coalition has urged the private sector entities and members of the Employers Consultative Association of Malawi (Ecama) to consider adopting health facilities and major referral hospitals to improve and ensure provision of quality health services in the country. Speaking during an interface meeting with civil societies and employers, under […]
Malawi government is scalling down on patient meals as food budgets fall, health figures reveal meals in public hospitals from three a day to one a day. Hospitals affected include Bwaila District Hospital in Lilongwe where admitted patients have been told that they will be having one meal a day from the normal three meals The […]
Dear Readers, I will be your comrade on Nyasa Times. My name is Comrade Chipuba; I am a global citizen with interest in Malawian affairs. That’s so about introductions, the statement below bothered me: “The only problem is that I don’t know where the drugs are being stocked currently, but I am sure something is […]
Dead bodies are decomposed and stinking at Chitipa hospital in the northern Malawi due to lack of functional mortuary at the facility, a mortuary attendant said. The hospital is filled with decomposing corpses piled together and there are fears for an epidemic to break out as a result of this development. As a hospital official […]