Malawi’s Vice-President, Dr Jane Mayemu Ansah, used a Mother’s Day visit to Kamuzu Central Hospital’s National Cancer Centre to deliver a message of hope to patients undergoing treatment, drawing on her own experience as a cancer survivor. Dr Ansah spent part of Thursday’s national observance with patients receiving care for lymphoma and other cancers, many […]
A delegation of five medical doctors from Israel is in the country to assess the National Cancer Centre where they will offer support and Monday met the Minister of Health and officials at Capital Hill. Deputy Ambassador of the State of Israel, Eyal David said the visit of medical doctors follows a meeting by Minister […]
Israel has made a commitment to support Malawi’s efforts in developing its first specialised cancer centre at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. Minister of Foreign Affairs Eisenhower Mkaka disclosed this Saturday on arrival in Lilongwe from Jerusalem, Israel where he went at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, Gabi Ashkenazi. […]
Malawi’s leading private-owned daily newspaper, has used its editorial comment to throw its weight behind calls for the country to invest in advanced medical technologies to be able to attend to some critical ailments such as cancer. In its editorial, The Nation was commenting on calls from anatomical pathologist and epidemiologist Dr Tamiwe Tomoka, who works […]
The government says the National Cancer Centre will become partially operation by October 1 2019 giving hope to Malawians seeking radiotherapy treatment within the country. According to Ministry of Health officials who appeared before the Parliamentary cluster committee on Health, HIV and AIDS and Nutrition, the civic works are at 95 per cent but the […]
Minister of Health, Housing and Population Atupele Muluzi on Thursday visited the newly built cancer centre at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) which is expected to be ready this year and save government about K480 million ($960 000) spent on cancer treatment referrals abroad annually. Speaking after touring the facility, the minister said he was happy with […]
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 […]
Malawi will this year start its plans to construct a state-of-the-art- military hospital at the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) headquarters, Kamuzu Barracks in Lilongwe, according to President Peter Mutharika. Construction of a hospital at the Kamuzu Barracks was one of the recommendations by the Commission of inquiry into circumstances of the death of late President […]
The much awaited Cancer Treatment Centre in Lilongwe opens its doors on September 23, 2018, Ministry of Health (MoH) Principal Secretary (PS), Dan Namarika has disclosed. He told the Malawi Cancer Consortium conference in Lilongwe that construction work of the centre, to be located at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) was on course towards the September 23, 2018 […]
An angry President Peter Mutharika has warned health workers in public hospitals to stop demanding money from patients in exchange for treatment, saying he would not only arrest them but get them fired. Mutharika said this on Wednesday when he officially put a foundation stone for a K9 billion national cancer centre at Malawi Health […]
Surely in today’s world, everyone will be touched by cancer as a patient, a family member or a friend; unfortunately that’s what seems to be life nowadays. October is the month of breast cancer focus globally including our country. I was never interested in cancer until I lost my dear mother Kaya Nandekayabo four years […]
Malawi’s oncologists Richard Nyasosera has expressed concern that the number of cancer cases in the country continues to increase for both men and women. According to the Nyasosera currently at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) Cancer Unit in Lilongwe, Malawi is facing a cancer threat, with about 1500 cases of cancer. “In the past five years, […]
Health researchers from Malawi are in line to tap from a £4 million first round of funding that one of the world’s leading pharmaceuticals firms GSK has made available for eight African countries to research into non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. GSK said on Friday it has launched the first call […]
Malawi Parliament Tuesday allowed Government to borrow from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) Fund for International Development $13.1 million (about K5.3 billion) for purposes of constructing the National Cancer Centre in Lilongwe. Minister of Finance and Economic Planning and Development, Goodall Gondwe told the House that would be constructed next to College of Medicine in […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has said it has decided to have the National Cancer Centre built in Blantyre rather than Lilongwe as earlier communicated because the ‘principles’ of the loan, Opec Fund for International Development, felt the centre be constructed adjacent to a medical school. Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall […]