The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), jointly with the U.S President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has donated medical supplies, equipment, and furniture worth K46 million in Malawi’s public health facilities. The supplies to be distributed to 85 health facilities, is part of […]
President Joyce Banda has said she will not accept the paying of health services in public hospitals, saying many Malaiwians live below the poverty level and cannot afford. Ministry of Health announced that it will estblish paying sections in all its major hospitals in the country to boost the hospitals’ financial muscles. The sections will be […]
A K107 million debt to suppliers and workers has left Nkhata Bay district hospital in a mess, crippling its smooth running as stakeholders are now reluctant to provide their services, Nyasa Times has learnt. For over a week now, the lakeshore district hospital has failed to provide food to patients. “They are only offering water,” a guardian […]
Many hospitals in the country have run out of dental anaesthesia (Dental lignocaine) and people who need to have their teeth extracted have to wait until it is made available. Takondwa Galau, Ndirande resident saidin an interview that he went to Ndirande Health Centre to have his tooth, which has been giving him problems, extracted […]
The Malawi government says beginning September 1, 2013; it will establish paying sections in all its major hospitals in the country to boost the hospitals’ financial muscles, Nyasa Times has learnt. The sections, according to government sources, will be available at Kamuzu, Mzuzu and Queen Elizabeth central hospitals. Dr. Noor Alide, Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) administrator, confirmed the development […]
President Joyce Banda has said that her government will do everything possible to make health and medical facilities as closer to the people to ensure that people spend their time in productive activities instead of wasting it covering long distances to access medical attention. Speaking when she laid a foundation stone for the construction of […]
Patients are sleeping on empty stomachs at Mchinji District Hospital in Malawi’s central region due to damaged electric pots which the hospital management is failing to repair, Nyasa Times has established. According to hospital member who spoke to Nyasa Times, for some time now food provisions to patients have been a thorn-in-the-flesh because the hospital […]
Barely two months after government told the nation that drugs availability was normalizing in the country’s hospitals it has actually been revealed that only 15 percent of drugs have so far been procured. Minister of Health, Catherine Gotani Hara, told reporters in May the drug shortage was normalizing following the delivery of 80 percent of […]
As Malawi embarks on a national voluntary medical male circumcision campaign (VMMC) next Monday, July 22, officials say the country estimates 2.1 million males to have undergone the knife by 2016. Since the country introduced voluntary circumcision in September last year, only 42 000 males have gone through the process but now government estimates about 700 […]
President Joyce Banda has said her administration will make it a point that health facilities, with adequate staff and amenities, are made available to all Malawians at reasonable distances because the real measure of any country’s development is the health of its people. Speaking at a development rally after she laid a foundation stone for […]
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated medical equipment and supplies worth $ 2.2 million to boost health service delivery in the Malawi’s fifteen districts. USAID director of health programs in Malawi, Mirriam Luts told Nyasa Times after handing over the donation on Wednesday that this is under a five year Support for service delivery integration […]
The delays in payment of salaries for medical workers in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba has degenerated into blame game between ministry of health and ministry of finance with one blaming another for the action that has forced the medical workers to stage a strike. Medical workers at Mapale in the city of Mzuzu and […]
Residents of Malawi’s commercial and industrial capital, Blantyre, will have to wait for a few more years before their dreams of having a district hospital are realised. As big as it is, Blantyre, with a population of over 1.2 million people, is one of the few districts in the country that do not have a district […]
Health researchers in Malawi will from this year to 2016 be using new roadmap christened the National Health Research Agenda which was disseminated to various stakeholders in Blantyre on Friday as reported by the press. On Monday the Daily Times newspaper reported that rxperts in the field of health research including District Health Officials and […]
Ministry of Health in conjunction with the Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSAHC) is strategising how Malawi can appropriate policies to avoid gender based violence and child sexual abuse. Chairperson of Health and Population Committee of Parliament, Paul Chibingu has said gender based violence issues are affecting people even at rural level, urban level […]
Ministry of Health says millions of mothers and babies in developing countries are dying because of child birth which has also affected Malawi following a report produced by Save the Children. This was disclosed by Minister of Health Catherine Gotani Hara on Wednesday in Lilongwe during the official launch of the 2013 State of the […]
Parliamentary Committees on Health and Population and Budget and Finance have vowed to press Government to explain on the K50million allocation meant for cancer centers. This, according to Parliamentarians follows failure by government to utilize the funds that were allocated for the same in the previous budgets. Paul Chibingu Member of Parliament (MP) for Mwanza […]
Communities of Phalombe district on Tuesday are expected to hand in their petition to Parliament through the District Commissioner (DC) over government’s failure to construct district hospital. The communities, under Democracy Consolidated Program funded Umunthu Project run by Institute of Policy Interaction (IPI), are set to deliver the petition, highlighting their concerns over the delay […]