Lafarge Cement Malawi has joined the country in the fight against coronavirus pandemic through donation of liquid soap and hand sanitizer to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. The company on Saturday presented 200 bottles of liquid soap and 200 bottles of hand sanitizer valued at K750, 000. Lafarge Chief Executive Officer, Geoffrey Ndugwa […]
Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (Cdedi) has asked President Peter Mutharika to swiftly act to end the shambolic management of Ministry of Health for allowing Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) to close as patients are being turned away. In a statement issued on Monday and seen by Nyasa Times, Cdedi acting executive director, […]
Medical services remained paralysed at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre, one of Malawi’s biggest referral hospitals, as doctors and nurses are continuing their sit- in strike. The frontline healthcare workers downed their tools last week demanding government to address their grievances especially ensuring that they have Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) in the wake […]
Nurses, doctors and other health workers in the frontline service of coornavirus at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre are on sit in strike, pressing the government to address their grievances regarding the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. They are demanding the revision of risk allowance, transport and recruitment of more health workers. The healthcare workers -who include […]
Hosputal workers at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre and Chikwawa district hospital have on Tuesday been boycotting work to force the government increase their risk allowance, improve their working conditions including a “critical” shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to treat patients during coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Doctors, nurses and other clinicians left patients […]
Muslim Youth United (MYU) and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Queens) have officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the adoption of neurosurgical and orthopaedic wards where the grouping is expected to visit the wards every week to assess and address their pressing needs. Dubbed ‘We Care Wards’, the official MOU was signed at Queens’ […]
Pemphero Mphande, leader of the Citizens of Progressive Action, has swiftly mobilized people to raise funds to replace a broken down oxygen cyclinder for the paedriatic emergency unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. Mphande said he had gone to Queens to check on a friend, Daniel Mumba, a Paedriatic Emergency Nurse Specialist, who […]
Muslim Youth United, a philanthropy arm of Muslims in Malawi, on Monday donated 273kgs of meat to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre in celebration of Eid al-Adha to spread some festive cheer to patients. Eid al-Adha or festival of the sacrifice is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year. It honours […]
MultiChoice Malawi has refurbished the entire Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) ward and handed it over on Thursday morning. Khaira Surtee – PR & corporate affairs manager, said it is MultiChoice Malawi’s mission to give back to the community in which it thrives and lives in and they found as their […]
As one way of celebrating the success of 2018 TNM Super League season with fans, the 2018 champions Nyasa Big Bullets has donated assorted items worth K2 million to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. Speaking during handover ceremony of items at the hospital on Wednesday, 26th December 2018, Nyasa Big Bullets Chief Executive Officer Fleetwood […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima has come to the rescue of patients awaiting brain scans at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre with a donation of K1 million. This followed a social media appeal by the head of the referral hospital’s Neurosurgical Unit, Dr Patrick Kamalo earlier in the week in which he reported the […]
Malawi’s integrated ICT company Telekom Networks Malawi PLC today joined the Kamuzu College of Nursing Students on a drive to improve sanitation at the Gogo Chatinkha Labour ward, at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre through a donation of assorted items. Speaking when he formally handed over the donation, TNM’s Head of Marketing Sobhuza Ngwenya, […]
Malawian women social networking group based in Europe called Malawi Queens in Europe has donated clothes groceries to the postnatal ward at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. The group which was born from their Facebook discussion forum, donated groceries such as sugar laundry and washing soap to 100 mothers in the ward. Presenting […]
Kamuzu Academy Alumni Association (KAAA) on Friday, April 20 donated 12 wheelchairs to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital to ease patients mobility at the referal hospital. In her vote of thanks, Queens’ Deputy Director Linley Chewere said the donation has come at the right time because most of its wheelchairs got damaged due to over use […]
The First Lady Professor Gertrude Mutharika, through the Beautify Malawi Trust (BEAM) on Tuesday handed over medical equipment worth K90 million to Chatinkha Maternity Wing at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre, courtesy of Mota Engil. The equipment included Ultra-sound machines, sterilizers, examination beds and mattresses, oxygen concentrators, pregnancy test kits as well as […]
Peoples Trading Centre (PTC), a subsidiary of conglomerate Press Corporation Limited (PCL) plc yesterday donated a GOTV decoder with six months paid for subscription to the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) Children’s oncology ward. The donation was made on the commemoration of World Children Cancer Day which is observed on 15th of February every year. […]
Social Welfare Office in Blantyre says the establishment of One-Stop Centre facility at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) has significantly contributed to the reduction in cases of gender based violence in the district. Assistant Social Welfare Officer for the district, Chikumbutso Salifu, said Wednesday that most vulnerable groups who include adolescent girls between the ages […]
As Christians are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, Sharp Valley Holdings cheered children admitted at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Queens) in the commercial city of Blantyre and donated assorted items worthy MK300 000. Speaking in an interview after the donation, Sharp Valley’s Operations Manager Henderson Chiwela said the company decided to donate to children […]