St. John’s Nursing College, a Roman Catholic owned nursing training institution in Mzuzu, has announced plans to start offering a degree programme of State Registered Nurses. The college’s principal Lilly Elizabeth Thindwa made the announcement during graduation ceremony of 29 students who were awarded with Technician Diplomas in Nursing and Midwifery on Saturday. She explained that currently […]
Government has said it is aware of the challenges and constraints facing nurses and midwives as they strive to contribute to the achievement of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Minister of Health Catherine Gotani Hara made the remarks in Zomba when she graced this year’s International Nurses […]
An unidentified number of Malawian nurses, who migrated to the United Kingdom in search of greener pastures, are said to be stranded in that country after finding themselves out of work due to changes in the UK immigration policy, Malawi News reported on Saturday. The plight of the nurses is revealed in an Oxford Journal […]
Nurses at Kasungu district hospital on Thursday marched and presented a petition to management in protest of poor working conditions at the facility. Among others , the health workers are bitter with a directive by management to put a bar of K20,000 for nurses who want to earn extra cash by working over-time using locum. […]
Nurses and midwives say they will support a two-day stay-away on February 11 and 12 which is being called by the Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU). The nurses through their mother body, National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives (Nonm), have since pledged to join the strike in protest against meager salaries and poor working conditions. […]
The Vice President Khumbo Kachali said Friday there is a vacancy rate of 75% of nurses and midwives in the country which puts extreme pressure on them to meet expected delivery of quality health services. The Vice President expressed the sediment at Kamuzu College of Nursing In Lilongwe when he officially opened the 3rd National […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali, who is also Minister of Health, has bemoaned the tendency by nurses and midwives in the country who leave to seek better wages abroad instead of working in the country. Like most African countries, Malawi has suffered from a severe shortage of nurses and key health workers. In the past, workers […]
The National Association of Nurses in Malawi says it is embarking programmes aimed at improving the conduct of nurses in the country and reduce complaints against them in the hospitals thereby ensure patients’ welfare. National Association of Nurses in Malawi, Executive Director, Harriet Kapyepye said in an interview with Malawi News Agency (Mana) that they are […]
Recently we have been hearing of health personnel in most of the countries hospitals, like Zomba central hospital, Kamuzu central hospital, Neno and Thyolo district hospital going on strike on several grounds. The major reason for their withdrawal of labour was the workers demand for an increment in an allowance commonly known as locum. Locum is an allowance that a […]
Neno district junior health workers who started their strike on Monday have vowed to continue with their sit in until the Ministry of Health (MoH) officials attend to their grievances. The strike which intends to force the Partners in Health (PIH) a sub contractor to Clinton Hunter Foundation Development Initiative to continue paying the government […]
Government has warned medical personnel particularly nurses against disregarding ethics when serving patients and under-performing as it is spending millions of Kwachas in training them. Deputy Minister of Health Harima Daudi said it was depressing to see many health workers deliberately failing to apply what they are trained to do. She also asked the medical […]
For patients whose lives are hanging on a thread, it makes sense to see a medical worker’s strike as the most evil thing man can ever do; and to the medical worker who is not satisfied with his working conditions and remunerations, it seems there is justification, on his part, that an industrial action is […]
Malawi’s hospitals are in trouble and patients will suffer most as nurses have decided to boycott work after their normal working hours because the Ministry of Health has refused to their allowances called ‘locum’. The nurses justified their demand because of the recent devaluation of the Kwacha. The central bank devalued the Kwacha nearly to […]
Malawi’s medical regulating body has approved a request to allow Muslim nurses to wear the Islamic headscarf – or hijab – while on duty. The request came from the education arm of the Muslim Association of Malawi – the Islamic Information Bureau. “It has taken us almost one year communicating with [officials from] Nurses and […]
Malawi nurses at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe are complaining of working under less than suitable conditions saying they live in “substandard houses in shanty” townships and have petitioned government to give them decent accommodation. The petition has been signed by 51 nurses who also ask to be allocated at institutional houses close to […]