Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi Asborn Eidhammer has advised the Ministry of Health to take proper care and management of health funding from donors particularly Norway. The envoy said this on Monday 16th December, 2013 at a Budget and Planning meeting held in the capital city, Lilongwe. Eidhammer has however revealed that the support from his […]
Malawi, christened the Warm Heart of Africa, is among three African countries and 16 world countries with the miserable people, with 27 out of every 100 of the country’s population claimed to be “suffering”, according to a latest study by an international research group, Gallup. The results of the survey are based on telephone and […]
An American based organization, Americare has donated assorted drugs to the government of Malawi. The drugs which have since started arriving in the country include Sodium Chloride 0.9 per cent, Gelatin 500ml pack intravenous infuse and Serological pipette 25ml. Speaking when he toured the Central Medical Stores Trust receipt warehouse in Kanengo, Vice President Khumbo […]
Ministry of Health has embarked on a $15 million (about K6 billion) Results Based Financing (RBF) programme to promote nutrition, health and safe motherhood for pregnant women in Mchinji. The programme is being run with assistance from the Norwegian and German governments. RBF national coordinator Reagan Kaluluma, said during a stakeholders meeting on Wednesday that […]
Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM), a Malawian family planning NGO founded by the Marie Stopes International Partnership, was last Friday decorated as outstanding organization with the first ever Excellence in Leadership (EXCELL) in Family Planning Award at this year’s International Family Planning Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Recipients of the EXCELL Awards were chosen from among […]
Malawi has been awarded the highest funding of $400, 000 in the first GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Save the Children Healthcare Innovation Award. The award followed the innovation a simple low-cost device that helps new-born babies to breathe and has the potential to transform the life chances for thousands of African babies. The life-saving kit, called a […]
A five- year- old boy Gerald Thomas of Group Village Headman Mwase in the area of Traditional Authority (T.A) Mwase in Lilongwe is suffering from weak bones disease, an illness called osteoporosis. Osteoporosis disease stimulates deep pain hence making Gerald Thomas struggling to live daily. Gerald’s mother, Dakondana Sinkayipe, said Osteoporosis developed in unexpectedly on […]
Local human rights campaigners are accusing President Joyce Banda’s administration of failing “big time” on provision of heath care to Malawians citing recent revelation by medical workers that almost 50 people die of curable ailments a week at referral Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) alone because of lack of medical supplies. In a statement, Executive Director […]
Member of Parliament for Lilongwe City Centre, Shadreck Jonas, has demanded that senior government officials lose their privileges of being referred to hospitals outside Malawi when in critical health condition. He said this in Parliament on the afternoon of Tuesday, in reference to a succession of predicaments that has been hitting Kamuzu Central Hospital recently […]
We, the undersigned, call for URGENT action by the State Legislature and the government of Malawi to rescue Kamuzu Central Hospital from its current crisis. Currently patients are not being served effectively and efficiently because of lack of basic drugs and medical supplies. This has led to unnecessary suffering of patients and preventable deaths of […]
The second phase of administering HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer in women is expected to roll out in November after a successful phase in September this year. The exercise, which was introduced by the Ministry of Health (MOH), targeted girls between the ages of 9-13 in Zomba and Rumphi districts, and received tremendous response, […]
A death has been registered at Ntchisi District Hospital barely a day after workers downed tools following a delay in their September salaries, Nyasa Times understands. A patient died in the male ward after staying for hours without medical attention around eleven o’clock in the morning on Monday. And the body couldn’t be taken to the mortuary as the […]
Workers from various public hospitals in Malawi’s central district of Ntchisi have started an indefinite strike in protest against the delay in receiving their September payment. A medical worker at Ntchisi district hospital told Nyasa Times that medical workers have posted writings on the hospitals walls informing the patients that no service will be offered as they […]
Government says it is spending approximately MK3 billion every three months to acquire the new ARV regimen. Spokesperson for Ministry of Health, Henry Chimbali made the revelation on Wednesday during an interview with Malawi News Agency (Mana). Chimbali said government started distributing new ARV regimen in July through recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO). […]
St John’s College of Nursing in Malawi’s northern region district of Mzuzu has been indefinitely closed over underfunding, forcing the institution’s management to postpone the final year students’ graduation from October this month to April next year. College principal Lily Thindwa said Wednesday that the failure by government and stakeholders to finance the institution for the last […]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi (ELCM) under its Malaria Programme has donated assorted drugs and two bicycle ambulances all valued at K700, 000 to Katema Heath Centre in Mangochi. Speaking Saturday during the donation of the drugs which coincided with the launch of a child feeding programme and the launch of a mobile clinic that was […]
Government has proceeded with its plans of establishing paying sections in all its major hospitals in the country to despite President Joyce Banda challenge that she will not accept the initiative. Last month, government disclosed that will, from September 1st, establish paying sections in major hospitals to enable them fundraise independently, thereby boosting their financial […]
President Joyce Banda has assured Nsanje District Hospital that financial challenges the hospital is facing will soon be over. Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Sam Ganda conveyed the message from the president Sunday when he presented a donation of 350 bags of maize flour and 40 bags of beans on behalf of the president at […]