Blantyre District Council has approved interdiction with no pay of a Midwifery nurse at Ndirande Health Centre who was suspended for allegedly taking a ‘selfie’ in labour ward showing a naked pregnant woman in the background which surfaced online. Patricia Malichi’s selfie, which has an unidentified pregnant woman lying on a hospital bed at Ndirande […]
About 20 young female nurses drawn from almost all the districts in the country have been equipped with leadership skills through a nine months programme implementented by the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi (Nonm) with funding from Norad through Norwegian Nurses Organisation (NNO). Presiding over a graduation ceremony at Nonm Secretariat in […]
Malawi Police in Chikwawa have arrested a 26-year-old nurse at Chikwawa District Hospital for allegedly abducting a 16-year-old girl for two days. The suspect identified as Lingstone Gango was arrested on Sunday. Chikwawa Police Station Public Relations Officer, Constable Foster Benjamin said Gango is said to have abducted the girl (name withheld) on December 27 […]
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 […]
Association of Malawian Midwives has condemned the taking of pictures in hospital wards, saying this was unethical. The association president Anne Phoya saying it was appalling to see nurses and midwives taking pictures of their patients and uploading them in social media platforms. “Let us remember our ethics and work ethics. The taking of pictures […]
Government has suspended a midwifery nurse over a labour ward selfie which showed her in masked face but exposed a pregnant woman with wide open legs ready to give birth in a labour ward. Blantyre district health office director of health services Dr. Gift Kawaladzira has confirmed of the suspension of Patricia Mulichi who works […]
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 27 year physically challenged woman of Namakhutcha Village, Senior Chief Chikumbu in Mulanje District will now have the liberty to move, thanks to a third year Mulanje Mission nursing student, Patrick Makina who donated two wheelchairs to her. After building a K3 million house for two brothers who lived in the bush for 35 […]
First grade Magistrate court in Mulanje has sentenced a 28 year old male nurse, Arthur Moses Chiulika to five years imprisonment with hard labor for raping an expectant mother. Chiulika, who was working at Chinyama health centre in Mulanje, was arrested in February this year for allegedly raping an 18 year old expectant mother at […]
A retired nurse Dorothy Mnyanyala Mhango who worked for Livingstonia Mission Hospital has turned 100 years old. Mhango said that her secret to live a health life is trust, believing in God and perseverance. She said that her first job was in late 30’s at Khondowe the synod’s mission hospital in Rumphi district. “My first […]
Some 33 newly recruited nurses and midwifery technicians at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre have gone for three months without pay. One of the nurses said some of them are now on go slow at the busy referral hospital, saying they were living a miserable life as they are unable to buy food, pay […]
A magistrate court in Mulanje has found a male nurse in the district with a case to answer on allegations that he raped a pregnant woman at a health facility on pretext that he wanted to enhance baby delivery. Magistrate Smart Maluwasa said Arthur Chiukira should stand full trial to answer the charge of rape after he allegedly […]
Phalombe district council has suspended three nurses from Phalombe Health Centre on allegations that they denied a woman in labor access to the labor ward. The three nurses are Maureen Chilikutali, Mphatso Chanza and Mercy Sonjera and have since been put on half pay. The development comes nearly two months after a published report indicating […]
Trinity College of Nursing and Midwifery under Chikwawa Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Nsanje has reduced its intake from 100 to 60 students per year, the College’s Acting Principal, Fanny Stevens, confirmed the development. According to Stevens,this has happened due to the reduced number of tutors, students’ scholarships at the institution and financial […]
Disgruntled nurses have questioned the manner in which the Nurses and Midwives Council of Malawi issue their licences and certification, arguing they are “unrealistic.” Nyasa Times understands the Council led by Dorothy Ngoma, a professional nurse from the Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN), has impacted negatively on the nurses working but have been to “lesser” […]
Firebrand nurses activist Dorothy Ngoma is pleading with the government to take back 339 nurses it fired after the High Court of Malawi told a nurses organisation and government go back to mediation. Ngoma, executive director of National Organisation of Nurses in Malawi (NONM) said since the mediation was completed, the government is delaying in […]
Nurses and Midwives Council of Malawi is up and down Malawi soliciting views from people on how best to change the laws that govern nurses and midwives work to be in tandem with human rights and democracy. The president of the Nurses and Midwives Council of Malawi Dr Anne Phoya said the current Act which […]
Government has come under intense pressure to resuscitate the collapsing public health service by improving the welfare of both health workers and patients. This was a message sent on Friday by public hospital workers in Lilongwe, Dowa and Nkhata Bay. The health workers that included doctors and nurses, marched peacefully from Kamuzu Central Hospital to […]