Former students of Lilongwe-based African Bible College (ABC) on Thursday donated waiting benches for the Out Patients Department (OPD) at Mzuzu Central Hospital. The alumni, who belong to a Class of 2005, organised themselves and it took them one and a half months to mobilise funds for that noble cause. Boston Khonje, a Mzuzu-based alumnus […]
Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda says plans to install an oxygen plant at Mzuzu Central Hospital is at an advanced stage. Kandodo said this after visiting health facilities in Mzuzu and Mzimba to see how they are coping with the spike in covid-19 cases. “My team at the ministry is finalizing drafting the Technical […]
Government set to install oxygen plant at Mzuzu Central Hospital in order to handle serious Covid-19 patient cases. Currently, the hospital spends K62 000 on each oxygen cylinder. The hospital uses about 15 oxygen cylinders in its intensive care unit and other wards every day. Epidemiology officer for Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM), Daniel […]
Mzuzu Central Hospital has opened a new guardian shelter and car park as a new drive to contain further spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The initiative has helped to limit the number of people entering the hospital’s mortuary and wards. Mzuzu Central Hospital spokesperson, Arnold Kaira said it was necessary for the hospital to […]
Mzuzu Asian Business Community has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to Mzuzu Central Hospital (MCH) and renovated an isolation facility in preparation for the management of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases. Mzuzu Asian Business Community coordinator Rashid Bano said they have maintained toilets, the roof and walls, among others, using K4 million. The facility was originally meant […]
Health minister Jappie Mhango on Saturday officially opened the coronavirus (Covid-19) testing laboratory room at Mzuzu Central Hospital which will cover the whole of northern region. Speaking to the media after launching the facility, Mhango said out of the two Covid-19 suspects the Mzuzu Central Hospital had, all have tested negative. He said it takes […]
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 […]
Indian High Commissioner to Malawi, Suresh Kumar Menon said 40 per cent of Malawian patients sent for treatment in India would have been treated in the country if the public hospitals had adequate medical equipment and specialist care. Kumar Menon was speaking at Mzuzu Central Hospital Wednesday when his government donated medical equipment worth $500 […]
Minister of Health and Population, Atupele Muluzi has said government will soon develop medical equipment maintenance plan to ensure that the equipment is always up-to date and lasts long, thereby addressing some of the challenges which the country’s hospitals face in health service delivery. Muluzi made the remarks on Wednesday at Mzuzu Central Hospital when […]
Mzuzu Pentecost International Christian Centre Lunch Hour Fellowship Saturday cheered and donated assorted items worth K100, 000 to in-patients at Mzuzu Central Hospital. The Lunch Hour Fellowship’s Chairperson, Audrey Banda said they decided to cheer the sick and to preach the gospel of hope at the hospital. “The Bible in Matthew 25 verves 35-36 says […]
Malawian Manchester United supporters has donated hospital equipment and supplies to Mzuzu Central Hospital. The donation, worth K3million is a follow up to previous donations to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and Kamuzu Central Hospital by the Man U supporters WhatsApp group. A member of the group, Allan Chinula, said the group has been motivated by […]
Magistrate Court in Mzuzu sentences former Mzuzu Central Hospital laboratory attendant Kondwani Kanthenga, 37, to 16 years imprisonment for drug theft. Kanthenga was arrested on May 29 for stealing various medical drugs and equipment at the hospital. His box of malaria drugs and antibiotics led to the recovery of 12 more cartons of assorted medical […]
Lack of profession doctors for cancer at the Mzuzu Central Hospital has led to the facility stop administering some drugs to patients as such medicines need well-trained doctors to administer them, the hospital senior official has disclosed. Speaking to Malawi News Agency (MANA) at the end of World Cancer Day commemorations held at Mzuzu Central […]
A K100 million kwacha eye clinic in Mzimba district is not yet operational months after completion, reportedly due to “some technicalities,” Nyasa Times has established. The facility, built with funding from Lions Club Norway, is supposed to be helping over one thousand plus people around Mzimba most of who are vulnerable to cataracts. Cataracts is […]
The Arab Republic of Egypt on Tuesday donated to Mzuzu Central ophthalmology equipment worth MK60 million as a way of supporting Malawi Government’s bid of ensuring that the country’s health facilities have modern equipment. Handing over the equipment at the hospital, Egyptian Ambassador to Malawi, Maher El-Adawy, said there is need for African Countries to […]
A consortium of partners dedicated to the eradication of avoidable blindness in Southern Africa, has handed over a health facility to Malawi government aimed to complement government effort in eye care services. The Academic Vision Centre which was officially opened by Malawi’s Deputy Minister of Health, Halima Daudi is the first of its kind in […]
Hope Chipwatali 36, a clinical officer at Mzuzu Central Hospital who was convicted on charges that he sexually assaulted a patient after he sedated her, has been jailed for eight years. Prosecution led by Jacob Montfort Nambiri proved that Chiphwatali of Chimbia Village Traditional Authority Kaphuka in Dedza district, took advantage of the patient’s mental illness […]
The Magistrate Court in Mzuzu has barred clinical officer at Mzuzu Central Hospital from reporting for work until the court clears him of allegations of sexually assaulting a female mental patient. Hope Chipwatali 36, of Chimbia Village Traditional Authority Kaphuka in Dedza District has since been charged with defilement of an imbecile contrary to Section 139 […]