Galaxy Pharmaceuticals in partnership with Institute of Marketing in Malawi (IMM) has donated Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs) worth K1 million to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital to assist in the fight against Covid-19. Speaking during the handover ceremony in Blantyre at Queens on Thursday, IMM public relations director George Damson said with the global health crisis brought […]
Minister of Health Khumbize Chiponda has commissioned a life-saving equipment called computerized tomography (CT) scan machine at the country’s biggest referral facility Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Qech) in Blantyre. According to Qech director Samson Mndolo, the new CT scanner which has been funded by the Norwegian government, will ease challenges patients have been facing to […]
Following power outage at t Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre awhereby the kitchen could not provide evening food for patients in the wards, Malawi Relief Fund (MRF) UK and Muslim Youth United (MYU) separately responded swiftly and funds were mobilized to buy relief food packs that were delivered by 19:30 hours at the pediatric […]
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre, the country’s major referral facility, on Wednesday evacuated patients to Zomba, Thyolo and Chiradzulu hospital due to power outage which affected many areas including the X-ray and the kitchen. The power failure lasted almost 12 hours and some patients who remained at the facility missed lunch because the kitchen […]
Major referral hospital in the south, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital has only four beds, forcing hospital management to refer most cases to an upmarket expensive Mwaiwathu Hospital at K900 000 per day per case. Hospital officials say Queen Elizabeth Hospital refers at least 340 cases of intensive care unit to Mwaiwathe Hospital which constitutes 81 […]
Presidential Cup Champions Kukoma Diamonds spent some time outside the courtyard to spread festive cheer the sick at Queen Elizabeth Hospital where they also donated assorted items worth over K300,000 in the post-natal ward. The team was led by their general secretary Chimwemwe Bakali and a representative from Capital Oil Refining Industries ( Cori), who […]
The crisis in Ministry of Health has dominated the Malawi press to buttress the fact that the southern African nation is going through a serious financial squeeze. “QECH dialysis unit ‘shuts down’” was the headline in The Nation, which detailed thatn Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre has closed down its dialysis unit. The paper reports […]
US pop diva Madonna on Thursday launched a 50-bed pediatrics ward at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in the commercial capital Blantyre. Raising Malawi director, Sarah Ezzy, said the new facility is the first dedicated pediatric intensive care unit in the country. Ezzy told reporters at the hospital that Raising Malawi, a non-profit charity organization co-founded […]
I flew into Malawi via Kamuzu International Airport a few weeks ago and before being granted entry what I assumed to be healthcare worker stopped and asked me if I had visited West Africa the previous thirty days. I started shaking my head signaling a BIG NO and told the official that I had in […]
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) has apologised to its consumers in and around Blantyre City for water outages. Queen Central Hospital, one of Malawi’s referral hospitals, is failing to carry out surgical operations due dry taps that have hit Blantyre hard. The commercial city has at least gone for four days without running water, forcing the […]
The ongoing shortage of water supply in Malawi has forced the country’s referral hospital Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) to suspend some of its operations. Residents living in and around Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre have been experiencing serious water shortage for five months after the water supplier Blantyre Water Board (BWB) said it was doing some […]
Malawi government has denied that there is a suspected case of the Ebola virus at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH). Some media outlets reported that Malawi registered its first Ebola case after a woman with symptoms similar to the disease was referred to QECH on Saturday. But the Ministry of Health has said there are […]
The Gogo Chatinkha Maternity Wing at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) will soon have two additional operation rooms to address the deficit the department is facing when conducting cesarean operations on pregnant mothers. A Gynecologist at the country’s biggest referral hospital, Dr. Frank Taulo who is also part of a 14 member committee called ‘Friends […]
Malawi’s public hospitals are becoming waiting rooms for death with shortages of treatment, the recent being the case of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe where there is shortage of intravenous fluids (IV fluids), no syringes and no blood for sick children. Doctors at the health facilities who spoke to Nyasa Times said they are […]
There was drama at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre on Sunday when a minibus driver, in a real Hollywood movie, dropped a ‘dead’ man at the emergency ward before speeding off. The incident occurred just before lunch hour in full view of patients, guardians, visitors and hospital workers who stood helpless as if […]