Human Resources for Health (HRH) Coalition has given the Malawi government up to Friday this week to procure and supply personal protective equipment (PPE) in all public health facilities or face nationwide strike of frontline workers in the coronavirus ‘warzone’. The coalition argues that a lack of or shortages of PPE in public health facilities […]
Public enemy coronavirus could kill about 50 000 in Malawi and the killer virus could potentially infect 85 percent of the country’s population currently at 17.5 million if Covid-19 were to hit the country for a year, Minister of Health and Population Jappie Mhango has said. The minister offered a grim prediction on Monday when he […]
In times like this coronavirus , Malawi need good government, a government that saves lives and protects the country and President Peter Mutharika has stamped its authority with is directive to employ 2 000 health workers to cope with the Covid-19 outbreak . The Malawi Health Equity Network (Mhen) executive director George Jobe said, has said […]
Ministry of Health Principal Secretary Dan Namarika has assured the public that they should have trust in the medical personnel that the country has and that the texts they are carrying on coronavirus (Covid-19) are accurate. Namarika was reacting to social media reports that indicated that the positive Covid-19 cases registered so far are not trustworthy. Malawi […]
Minister of Health and Population Services Jappie Mhango has said the fouth coronavirus patient recorded in Malawi recently returned from UK – where four weeks after it recorded its first death from Covid-19 its deaths now surpass the reported total in China, the epicentre of the virus. The new Covid-19 Malwi patient has been tested positive […]
Malawi needs to steps up efforts to address shortage of ventilators in public hospitals —which provide roughly 80 percent of health care services in the country — due to coronavirus (Covid-19) threat as more lives will be lost if the pandemic gets to the country. The World Health Organization has urged all countries to […]
World Vision Malawi (WVM) has donated medical supplies and equipment worth K80 million to Ministry of Health in a drive to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country. The donated items included 50,000 gloves, 3,000 face masks 1,000 gowns 12 tonnes of powdered soap, 90×20 kgs of chlorine 8 tonnes of assorted bar […]
Minister of Health and Population, Jappie Mhango has expressed satisfaction with the construction works of a multi-million kwacha state of the art Phalombe District Hospital currently in progress. He said this on Wednesday in Phalombe after touring the hospital and staff houses to appreciate the work being done. Mhango said for a long time, the […]
A Catholic bishop has called on the government to provide enough medicine and health facilities in public hospitals to improve the dwindling health services. Bishop Peter Musikuwa of Chikwawa Diocese said this on Sunday when he visited Nsanje district hospital as part of the commemoration of the sick by the church. “Hospitals need to have […]
Government has run out essential drugs in most public hospitals across the country. The drugs include antibiotics and antirabies. Patients who go to public health facilities are given prescription so that they could by the medical drugs from pharmacies or private hospitals. Ministry of Health spokesperson Joshua Malango pushed the blame on Central Medical Stores […]
Government has, with immediate effect, suspended the export of medical products as the Ministry of Health engages another gear in its preparation to battle coronavirus. This suspension comes barely a week after the country exported surgical masks to China which is the epicentre of the disease which has killed over 2000 people since January, 2019. […]
Government says six people who arrived from China in the past weeks have been quarantined in their homes as a preventive measured on coronavirus which has killed 1500 people so far outside Africa. Ministry of Health principal secretary Dan Namarika said the six have been quarantined in their own homes because the government has no […]
Principal Secretary (PS) for Malawi’s Ministry of Health and Population, Dr. Dan Namarika, has disclosed that the African Continent accounts for almost 25 percent of all the global tuberculosis (TB) and continues to live under ever-growing threat of drug resistant, multi-drug resistant and extensively drug resistant TB. Namarika said despite successes being registered in the […]
Minister of Health and Population Jappie Mhango has said his ministry is “doing everything possible” to ensure that killer coronavirus does not get “imported” in Malawi after its outbreak in China. Given the travels to and from China that are on the rise, there is fear that coronavirus case can be diagnosed in the country. […]
As the first global conference on childhood pneumonia opens to agree on concrete steps governments and partners can take to reduce child pneumonia deaths, leading agencies have warned that nearly 49,000 child unless action is taken. Ministers of Health from 16 countries including Malawi are in Barcelona, Spain attending the Forum and are expected to […]
Ministry of Health (MoH) says it is on high alert and taking preventive measures against the highly contagious outbreak of a pneumonia-like virus in China called Corona Virus which is dangerously spreading and has already killed at least two dozen people with hundreds affected. Although no cases of the deadly virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, […]
Government says the fight against cholera is on course after registering one death and 20 cholera cases up from over 900 cases and 42 deaths in 2017. Ministry of Health and Population Joshua Malango however said the ministry is not flattered because of the results. “We will continue as the ministry to ensure zero cholera […]
Meagre trickle-in funds from government have forced Mzuzu Central Hospital to offer poor and not “on time” meals to patients a situation that is compromising their quick recoveries, its administration has admitted. The hospital director, Dr Frank Sinyiza, among others, told Nyasa Times that while the northern region only referral facility requires about K180 million budgetary support […]