The development of a country is directly linked to how it provides essential services to its populace, chief among them being the provision and accessibility of quality health services. In health sector, the maternal and newborn health situation is a major indicator and it gives a general picture of a country’s basic care provided to […]
Seven expectant mothers have died in a space of six months in the lakeshore northern district of Karonga, a development officials say is being triggered by shortage of blood and lack of effective means of transport to get the women to the hospital in good time. Karonga district deputy health officer Dr. Ted Bandawe said […]
A 24 year old woman has died at Mponela Rural Hospital due to a ruptured uterus after authorities failed to refer her to Dowa district hospital because of lack of fuel. A private radio station Zodiak said on Sunday, Mponela health centre had informed officials at Dowa District Hospital but they could not send an […]
A woman in her twenties was on Friday forced to give birth in public transport in Dowa after health workers failed to give her ambulance transport from Mponela Health Centre to Dowa District Hospital due to fuel shortage. Hospital staff at both Mponela Health Centre and Dowa District Hospital confirmed the incident on Saturday describing […]
Airtel Malawi has donated K9.4 million towards supporting the training of professional health personnel in the country. Public Relations and corporate communications manager for Airtel, Edith Tsilizani said the donation is a continuation of the same programme which started in 2012. Tsilizani said the K9.4Million will help to train 10 nurses this year alone. “This […]
In a bid to increase skilled attendance at birth the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood has graduated 66 Community Midwifery Assistants (CMA’s) during the 39th graduation ceremony that was held at St Lukes College of Nursing of the Anglican Upper Diocese in Malosa, Zomba. This was the third and fourth group to […]
When she was President of Malawi, Joyce Banda, caused sensation when her photo went viral online capturing her leading lby example by carrying a bucket of water on her head to share the experiences of motherhood and promote water supply and development together with her people. This weekend, Melinda Gates, the wife of Bill Gates […]
On June 27, 2015, Melinda Gates, wife of US billionaire, Bill Gates, met with President Peter Mutharika at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe. The agenda was to discuss the promotion of safe motherhood and maternal health in Malawi. It is commendable that President Mutharika seems to havematernal health and safe motherhood amongst his health sector priorities. […]
Melinda Gates, wife to US billionaire Bill Gates has commended the Malawi government for implementing programmes that have helped the country to reduce deaths of pregnant woman and in turn meet its Millennium Development Goal-MDG number 4. Melinda was speaking in Lilongwe during the week when she held a closed door meeting with President Professor […]
Minister of Health Dr Jean Kalilani has noted that Malawians are having too many babies which will impact on the population growth of the one of the world’s most impoverished countries. Kalilani said government plans to construct a new hospital in Lilongwe, after newspaper report suggest eapid population growth in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe and the […]
A strike by medical workers under the Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) has started manifesting its nasty stint with a woman delivering without any medical help at Mlanda Health Centre in Ntcheu Friday. Tiyamike Haswell, 21, ended her nine months of sweet pain without a midwife at her side. “When we arrived they told us […]
Life—the single most invaluable God-given gift—doesn’t have to be constantly in regrettably avoidable danger. It simply doesn’t have to be. This doesn’t have worrisomely to be more especially in times humanity endeavors to fulfil nature’s sacred call—that is, procreation. For instance, it is reported that mother earth lost 289,000 lives of women in 2013 alone […]
The Joyce Banda Foundation International on Monday signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) where the foundation will foot all delivery bills at Achikondi Clinic in Area 23 in Lilongwe. This is the second time that the foundation is reviving the pact after it hit snags last year after the charity wrote the clinic about the […]
Guardians to expectant mothers in the lakeshore district of Nkhotakota on Monday morning marched to the District Commissioner’s office to express their discontentment following a rise in still births at the district’s hospital. The women said at least 13 babies have died in the last week during birth, a figure inside sources at the hospital confirmed […]
Malawian men have been advised to play an active role on issues of family planning if safe motherhood is to be achieved in the country, National Coordinator for Initiative on Safe Motherhood Chimwemwe Chipungu has said. Chipungu said this on Tuesday in Lilongwe during the opening of a maternity waiting home at Area 25 health […]
Premier mobile network operator, TNM on has reached out to mothers and newly born babies at Mulanje Mission Hospital with a donation of an Infant Radiant Warmer machine worth K2.1 million. Hospital authorities say they expect the machine to go a long way in reducing child mortality in the border district. Mulanje Mission Hospital has a Nursery […]
The White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) in Malawi, a grouping that advocates for safe motherhood and welfare of nurses and midwives has petitioned the government over the increasing deaths of women during pregnancy and child birth. Presenting the petition to the Minister of Health, Jean Kalirani on Thursday in the capital Lilongwe, the Alliance’s Board Chairperson […]
Pregnant women at Khombedza Health Centre, 25 Kilometres north of Salima District, are sleeping literally on the floor due to in availability of beds. When space on the floor in the ward runs out, their attendants sleep in corridors of the ward. Or outside on the hospital veranda and compound. The patients are also at […]