A scabies outbreak has hit the Capital City, Lilongwe, igniting debate of health living standards of its residents. Lilongwe district health officer Richard Mvula said between January and June, Bwaila Hospital has recorded over 4 000 scabies cases. “These cases are from both the urban and rural areas,” said Mvula. He said the hospital has […]
Minister of Health and Population, Jappie Mhango has assured Malawian citizens that there are no reported cases of Ebola virus anywhere in the country and that in the unlikely event that the disease is detected the ministry is ready to manage the situation. Mhango said at a news conference to update the country on the […]
Government has ruled out closing its borders after a second person has died of ebola in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the ebola death to 1800 in the mineral rich country. Ministry of Health public relations officer Joshua Malango, however, says a robust monitoring program for the detection of the killer disease is in […]
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has provided about £478,000 to UNICEF for Ebola preparedness and prevention work in Malawi. With the funding, 500 health workers from nine districts (Chitipa, Karonga, Mzuzu, Dowa, Lilongwe, Mchinji, Dedza, Mwanza, and Blantyre) will be trained to prevent, detect, treat and manage Ebola. According to DFID Malawi Health […]
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday commended the Ministry of Health and Population for its efforts in reducing the number of children deficient in vitamin A from 51 percent to 3 percent. UNICEF’s Chief of Nutrition, Dr Sangita Duggal attributed the success to the efforts and strategies put in place by the Ministry of […]
Ministry of Health and Population has said the development Nursing and Midwifery Policy aims at improving services delivered by nurses and midwives in the country. Minister of Health and Population, Jappie Mhango made the remarks Thursday in Lilongwe during the launch of the Policy. He pointed out that the Policy provides guidance in the provision […]
Minister of Health Jappie Mhango has said Malawi has put in place strategies to prevent the potential spread of Ebola in the country and his ministry is on high alert and is closely monitoring the situation from African countries hit by the viral disease. Mhango said this in Parliament on Wednesday when legislators expressed concerm […]
Ministry of Health says it has rescheduled the human papilloma virus (HPV) second dose vaccination from July 2019 to January 2020 due to logistical issues and change of proposed strategy. In a circular to its stakeholders issued on Wednesday, Ministry of Health Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) programme manager Temwa Mzengeza said after a thorough […]
Balaka District Hospital is expected to benefit from the Saudi Arabian surgeons who have been in the country from Monday to assist patients in need of medical operations. A medical committee of Wamy Incorporation, with support from the Al ehsan and Al bir Trust, has embarked on the exercise to provide free operation services to […]
About 180 health workers drawn from various health facilities in Lilongwe have undergone training on how they can be able to collect quality data and analyse it in order to make informed decisions that would lead to improved service delivery. The health workers, among others, comprise matrons, clinicians and clerks. The training came curtesy of […]
A clinician at Chikwawa district hospital says the institution is alarmed with the death of 44 women in a space of two months when giving birth. Gerald Nakoma, a clinician at the district hospital attributed the alarming maternal mortality deaths due to lack of ambulances at the hospital. “As a hospital, we were unable to […]
Main public referral hospital for the centre, Kamuzu central hospital vital machine for scanning, CT scan has been down for 10 months and poor patients are told to seek services from private hospitals at a cost of K120 000 but those who cannot pay for the services have nowhere else to go. A CT scanner […]
Government and mission hospitals under Church Hospitals Association of Malawi (Cham) have signed a new service level agreement to enable people get free medical services in the mission hospitals. Ministry of Health and Population spokesperson Joshua Malango has confirmed that 156 Cham hospitals have filled the dotted lines with the government. “We are just remaining […]
A health expert has exposed daring weaknesses and anomalies in the public health sector which keeps away patients seeking medical attention. Rodgers Kumaliro Phiri said a health report compiled by Art and Global Health under Umunthu project shows that late reporting for duty, absenteeism, harassment of patients and demand for pay by medical personnel are […]
Malawi is safe from the deadly disease, Ebola, a senior government official has said. The chief director in the ministry of Health Charles Mwansambo has said the country’s border posts have not detected the disease which has killed 1000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo so far. “The country is very safe from the […]
Ministry of Health in conjunction with the Ministry of Local Government has recruited health care workers barely a day after the former president and People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda made the call at a political rally she jointly held with Malawi Congress Party (MCP), presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera in Mangochi on Thursday. Banda called […]
A senior government official has said malaria kills eight people every day in Malawi which translates into 3,000 deaths every year. Principal secretary in the ministry of Health and Population Dan Namarika said the last year alone, six million people were down with malaria negatively affecting economic and social lives of people. Namarika said this […]
Malawi has become the first country in the world to roll out a K1 billion landmark large-scale pilot of the first malaria vaccine to give partial protection against the disease, giving hope that deaths due to the killer disease will be drastically cut. The World Health Organization says Malawi is the first of three countries chosen […]