Malaria Tour 2017-18 a brain child of Malawi’s celebrated former Big Brother Africa representative, Code Sangala, will on November 16,2017 hold a fundraising event to raise funds for paediatric accident and emergency wards at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. In an interview on Friday, the Malaria Tour 2017-18 founder, said the tour started […]
Rapper Fredokiss, born Penjani Kalua, on Wednesday had taken a charity initiative with the country’s youthful Parliamentarians at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital’s (QECH) children’s burns unit and intensive care ward where they donated assorted groceries including sugar and milk . Fredokiss said as a youth, he wanted to be an active participant in charity drive that […]
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre has temporarily shut down its dialysis unit because of non payment of materials to suppliers Fresenius Medical Care of South Africa , putting lives of patients with renal failure and other kidney problems at risk. QECH is the country’s major referral public hospital but is unable to help […]
A Whatsapp grouping of Malawian supporters for the English Premier League club, Manchester United, on Saturday donated medical supplies worth about K1.7 million (approximately US$2,316) to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. The donated supplies are for the referral hospital’s surgical department, and it’s part of the grouping’s commitments of helping the underprivileged. The […]
Malawi’s integrated mobile network and ICT service provider TNM on Wednesday joined in Patience Namadingo’s #5Mil in 40 campaign with a K2.4 million contribution. The campaign is meant to raise money toward the development of the Children’s Cancer Ward at Queen Elizabeth Central hospital in Blantyre. Through it, Namadingo and his team intend to raise […]
Four suspects arrested over theft of a washing machine from Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyte have been remanded to Chichiri Prison after being formally charged at Blantyre Magistrate Court with theft by public servant. The four, Francis Gwiranani, 52, Philip Malitino, 45, Yohane Kankhuni, 46, and Gerrard Maonde have been arrested following reports that […]
Beautify Malawi (BEAM) Trust has donated medical supplies worthy K5 million and cash amounting K500, 000 to Gogo Chatinkha Maternity Unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre to help improve service delivery. The medical supplies include adjustable crutches, women disposable underwear, CO2 tubes for laparoscopy, tibia fracture braces, x rays detectable gauze and […]
Malawi Police are investigating the theft of a washing machine from Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyte. The machine was taken out of the hospital on a pretext that it was going for repairs but no official knew the development. Principal hospital administrator at Queen’s, Chikumbutso Tambala said police are investigating the matter. Ministry of […]
Maurice Nkawihe –Nyasa Times Queen Elizabeth Central hospital (QECH) Plastic Surgery Clinic treats about 4,500 out-patients a year and about 75-80 percent of them are burn victims, Doctor Tilinde Chokotho disclosed on Thursday. Chokotho, QECH Burns Unit Plastic Surgeon, also disclosed that currently, mortality is at 15 percent. He made the disclosure during National Burns […]
A week after the Mchinji First Grade Magistrate sentenced Blessings Chisale who posed as a Medical Doctor at the district hospital to seven years imprisonment with hard labour, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre has registered yet another quack doctor, Zamil Michael, 31. Hospital Administrator Themba Mhango confirmed of the development saying the suspect was apprehended Monday by the hospital’s […]
Come to think of it, nothing that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is doing should take anyone by surprise. At least not in Malawi. Because, when one recalls that era of“bad” laws, of fuel and forex shortages, of media unfriendly laws, of opposition and civil society bashing, of hoodwinking Malawians on a wide range […]
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital to drill boreholes .Yes you read it right! This is right at the centre of what we call our commercial city, Blantyre! The water situation in the city is so bad that a referral hospital has to drill boreholes to sustain hospital operations during the numerous times that the hospital doesn’t […]
Unilever Malawi has launched its new advanced Lifebuoy health soap into the market amidst a pledge to improve health and hygiene as well as reduce environmental impact and enhance the livelihoods of communities in the country. The remarks were made by Unilever Malawi Country Manager Chikondi Ng’ombe on Tuesday during the launch of the new […]
Malawi’s leading mobile telco, TNM has today donated three Oxygen Concentrator machines to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital worth K3.6 million. The donation is in response to a fundraising appeal the hospital made recently when it organized a fun-run in aid of Chatinkha Maternity Unit. Speaking during the handover ceremony at QECH, Head of Blantyre Region […]
The Blantyre Police is keeping in custody a man who they are yet to give out his particulars, for allegedly being found conducting in a manner that showed that he is a practicing doctor at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. An eye witness revealed that the man was caught Sunday in the Children (Orthopedic) Ward at the referral […]
The Blantyre Magistrate’s Court has sentenced one more bogus ‘Doctor Wongani Kumbukani Kandulu’ to six years Imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL). The sentence comes barely two weeks after another, illegally using the name Dr Zizwani Mwafulirwa’s but his real name is John Ben Kamanga, was also given similar custodial sentence by the same court. Both […]
The Blantyre Magistrate Court has adjourned the case involving the first bogus doctor to be nabbed, Dr. Wongani Akuzike Kandulu, to February 2, 2015 for sentencing. The quack doctor’s real name is Wongani Kumbukani Horace Kandulu, and was arrested in October last year at the referral Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) where he posed as a Medical […]
Self acclaimed medical doctor John Ben Kamanga has been handed a six year-jail term by the Blantyre Magistrate Court after observing that Kamanga, whose real profession is shoe vending, needed a custodial sentence because his offense endangered human life. The Form 2 drop out hit headlines last November when he was arrested at Queen Elizabeth […]