Youth and Society (YAS), a civil society organisation (CSO), has taken to task Ministry of Health Principal Secretary Dan Namarika and 11 other officials over the flouting of the law prohibiting employees of a procuring and disposing public entity from bidding for its auctioned assets. Namalika and other officials bought cars from their ministry in a […]
Malawi government, in partnership with WHO and Unicef, has launched national Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine campaign targeting over 240,000 girls aged 9 across the country to protect them against cervical cancer. The launch took place at St. Charles Lwangwa Primary School at Namiyasi in Mangochi on Thursday with calls for chiefs, parents and all […]
Secretary for Health Dan Namalika and other officials have bought cars from their ministry in a public auction which Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe has described as illegal and observers call asset stripping. The local press has acquired documents detailing how the sale of the vehicles were done in the Ministry of Health anf Population Services […]
A 14 year old boy who suffered a broken urinary tract after falling from a tree four years ago returned home Tuesday after undergoing a successful operation in India. The fate of the boy, Collings Banda from Nyamawende Village in Traditional Authority Zulu came to limelight after press reports on the boy’s predicament. Soon after […]
Ministry of Health and Population Servcces will embark on Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine from January 2019 to all nine year-old girlsacross the country to prevent them from cervical cancer. Chief of Health Services in theMinistry of Health and Population Services, Dr. Charles Mwansambo made the disclosure on Wednesday on the sidelines of Mass Drug […]
Communities in the area of Traditional Authority Zilakoma in Nkhata Bay have expressed frustration over a habit of negligence by health workers at Liuzi Health Center, who leave some patients to return home unattended to. Group Village Headman Dambanjoka, one of the 29 village heads in the area, said the workers give excuses of being […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima has come to the rescue of patients awaiting brain scans at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre with a donation of K1 million. This followed a social media appeal by the head of the referral hospital’s Neurosurgical Unit, Dr Patrick Kamalo earlier in the week in which he reported the […]
Donors have put together K6.5 billion for the construction of maternity wings and health facilities in the country. Health minister Atupele Muluzi has said Norway, Germany and United Kingdom has put together the money primarily to decongest materning wings. “This money is available. We just want to expediate the process of starting the construction of […]
Traditional, political and civic leaders in Kaporo are demanding the immediate reopening of Kaporo health centre in Karonga which was closed two months ago due to poor sanitation and appalling conditions. Daniel Munthali, one of the people around the closed health facility said traditional, political and civic leaders have done all they could to force […]
At least 2,000 nurses and midwives in Malawi, some having graduated as far as two years ago, remain unemployed yet public health facilities in the country are facing acute shortage of health workers. This was disclosed last Saturday during an advocacy meeting involving various stakeholders including National Organization of Nurses and Midwives (NONM), representatives of […]
Minister for Health and Population Atupele Muluzi has said the much-touted National Cancer Centre located at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) is expected to be ready by 2019 and save government about K480 million ($960 000) spent on cancer treatment referrals abroad annually. The centre will have the capacity to handle 2 000 cancer cases annually and will also have […]
The Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi on Monday commissioned 238 newly installed prefabricated pharmacy units at Ming’ongo Health Centre in Lilongwe. Speaking during the commissioning ceremony, Muluzi said in 2014, the Ministry of Health conducted a comprehensive assessment of public health facilities which revealed that 77 per cent lacked adequate storage space for medicines and […]
A project unveiled by Minister of Health and Population Atupele Muluzi to construct a specialised bone and nerve surgeries clinic within the Kamuzu Central Hospital complex in Lilongwe has been welcome as positive news as people will have services free courtesy of a K17 billion (about $24million) grant. The Lilongwe Institute of Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery […]
A midwife nurse in Blantyre has come under intense fire in Blantyre for taking a selfie as an unidentified woman is lying on a bed with legs open ready to give birth in a labour ward. The picture is in circulation in social media platforms, drawing anger from most of people who feel the government […]
A health worker at Thuchila Health Centre in Mulanje has been arrested on allegations that he stole cartons of malaria drugs and diagnostic kits. Director of Health and Social Services at Mulanje District Council Dr. Alinafe Kalanda said a patient who went to the health centre early in the morning on Monday was suspicious that […]
Ntcheu district hospital administration has rebuffed main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) to visit the hospital in order to cheer the sick. A letter from health services manager to the district chairman says the rejection is for the interest of patients’ welfare. “We regret to inform you that Ntcheu district hospital cannot accommodate your […]
The Ministry of Health and Population has commended the clean up exercise which is being carried out by the Lilongwe City Council (LCC) in the markets and streets around Lilongwe city. LCC embarked on a clean-up campaign from October 24, 2018 scheduled to run until November 17, 2018 targeting to clean public places including; markets […]
I have just returned from a series of critical meetings in Oslo, Norway. I was one of a handful of senior ministers and Heads of State that were invited to partake in discussions around the Global Financing Facility (GFF). The Global Financing Facility is supported by a number of strategic organisations to include the Global Fund, the World […]