A leading Malawian lawyer is set to swap his comfortable home for a night on the floor of an under-resourced rural health centre — all in a bold bid to shine a light on the desperate conditions mothers and medical staff endure across the country. Khumbo Bonzoe Soko, a private practice lawyer and former president […]
National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc has donated K40 million towards the 2026 Mother’s Fun Run (MFR), strengthening efforts to improve maternal and newborn healthcare in Mzimba North. The Mother’s Fun Run is a safe motherhood initiative championed by Nation Publications Limited (NPL), which mobilises support from strategic partners to procure life-saving medical equipment and […]
One of Malawi’s busiest maternity wards is buckling under a staggering surge in demand, with staff at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe now delivering as many as 115 to 120 babies every single day — a workload health chiefs warn is stretching beds, staff and space to breaking point. Health Area Matron Rejoice Mwale revealed the […]
Safe motherhood activists say pregnant women needs special protection and treatment in the wake of the ravaging Covid-19 infection. This follows observations by health experts that pregnant women remain vulnerable during this pandemic due to physical changes in their bodies. An official from safe motherhood oriented organisation, Ipas, Board Chairperson Chisale Mhango stresses that pregnant […]
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Health, Mathews Ngwale has said government has an obligation to ensure that no woman should dies of pregnancy-related causes. He made the remarks in Blantyre on Saturday during an interface organized by Ipas Malawi and Centre for Solutions Journalism (CSJ) which drew together some Members of Parliament, gender activists, […]
A woman who recently gave birth to twin babies with acute malnutrition condition, Mkondawako Samson of Salima District, has expressed immense gratitude to First Lady Monica Chakwera for giving her cash and assorted items. The donation included K200 000 cash, milk formula, nappies, blankets, wrappers (zitenje), face masks, squash, sugar, salt, clothes, bags of maize […]
A maternity wing project at Hara Health Centre in Traditional Authority (TA) Wasambo in Karonga District that started in 2017, is still uncompleted, three years down the line. It is not known as to when authorities will put resources together to finish the building, whose initial construction cost was K4 million — drawn from Constituency […]
A woman at Kabuwa in Traditional Authority (TA) Khosolo, Mzimba District gave birth in a canoe in presence of men after health personnel at Kabuwa Health Center denied to assist her claiming they were on strike demanding salary increment from government. In a Whatsapp voice note sent to TA Khosolo, Member of Parliament for the […]
Mbingwa Health Centre was purposely constructed to help Malawi achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goal through provision of quality healthcare services in Traditional Authorities (T/As) Kayembe and Chakhaza in Dowa district. Located some 80 kilometres to the north of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, the clinic provides outpatient, maternal, neonatal and postnatal care services to the locals […]
Three of the quadlets born to a 33-year-old mother a few weeks ago in Kasungu, have died. Kasungu district health officer Dr. Emmanuel Gorombo has confirmed the death of the three babies, all girls. “The children were premature and were born underweight, this is why they have died,” said Gorombo. The woman, Enita Phiri, conceived […]
A nurse at Mpala Health Centre in Mulanje has been sent in forced leave pending a decision by the ministry of Health after she allegedly turned back a pregnant woman who wanted to deliver at the health facility. Mulanje district hospital spokesperson Innocent Chinvinda said a fact finding team from the hospital proved that the […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) says over 2 000 children were born in Malawi on New Year’s Day alone but says the survival of most of them is slim. Unicef Malawi acting representative Roisin De Burca said there is need for the government and development partners to ensure that all the children survive. “Most […]
Wife to the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) First Vice-president, Abida Mia, on Saturday visited Salima-based mother Joyce Banda, who gave birth to quadruplets, to donate assorted items to assist her during and after her stay at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH). And whilst at KCH, she also learnt that another mother, Patuma Juma from Area 24 […]
Friends of Arthur Peter Mutharika – a grouping of professional young women — on Tuesday visited the 35 year-old mother of five, Joyce Banda, who birth to quadruplets at Salima District Hospital on Saturday to donate assorted items to assist her as she still has to continue being in hospital since the kids were born […]
A 35 year- old mother of five, Joyce Banda has given birth to quadruplets atS alima District Hospital. The four babies who are all boys were delivered on Saturday night and have born with low weight of 1,400gms, 1,200gms, 1,200gms and 1,000 gms. Banda.who comes from Matumba Village in the area of Senior Chief Khombedza […]
One of the commercial banks in the country, First Merchant Bank (FMB) on Wednesday donated MK2 million towards 302kms cycle challenge from Blantyre to Lilongwe that will be undertaken by its own employee, Stewart Kambewa, as a charity event towards Nation Publication’s Limited’s 2018 Mothers Day Fun Run, a Safe Motherhood initiative. Kambewa, who shot to […]
Mercy Masoo, Country Director for WaterAid Malawi, a non-govermental organisation, on Thursday last week joined what several high profile women corporate executives have already done by spending a night at a hospital in Ntchisi District to appreciate the challenges poor mothers are facing in government hospitals and recounts her experience there. Dubbed Sleepover Challenge, this is […]
Last December, Pamela Mphasi, 21, gave birth at home and named the baby Favour because she was born “luckily if not riskily”. This is contrary to a policy government adopted in 2007 to ensure every baby is born in a clinic. “I used to go to Ruarwe Health Centre for antenatal services. Due to lack […]