President Joyce Banda on Thursday officially opened a magnificent K19m maternity at Mulanje district hospital built with financial support from the Standard Bank. The 32- bedroom maternity dubbed ‘waiting home’ is part of the fruits of the Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood Programme championed by the Banda administration aimed at reducing maternal related deaths. “I […]
Traditional leaders from Malawi’s southern district of Neno are pledging their support towards the Presidential Initiative on Safemotherhood which seeks to improve maternal health as well reduce maternal deaths among women. They were speaking at a meeting held by chairperson of the initiative Senior Chief Kwataine on at the headquarters of Traditional authority Chekucheku in […]
Private sector has been encouraged to take a leading role on improving maternal health and safe motherhood progress by investing in its interventions if the country’s attainment is to be fast tracked. Currently, Malawi’s Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) for is at 675 per 100,000 live births. studies reveals untimely access to maternity and neonatal health care, […]
A New York based organization, AFYA Foundation, has pledged to support President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s initiatives towards improving maternal health in Malawi. The founder of AFYA Foundation, Danielle Butin made the pledge on Friday when she handed over a container full of assorted medical equipment and supplies to Malawi’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United […]
President Joyce Banda Saturday said she would only help chiefs who have the welfare and the interest of their people at heart. Banda said this at Ncheu Boma when she closed a two day workshop for chiefs on Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood, Child and Maternal Deaths which she initiated six months ago. Participating in […]
About 60 chiefs from various parts of the country have gathered in Malawi’s Central district of Ntcheu for a workshop on maternal health and Safe motherhood. The participants to the two-day workshop which started Thursday drawn from all districts in the country have been assembled by the Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood, Child and Maternal Deaths. […]
Traditional leaders from sub traditional authority Chanthunga in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka says are strictly enforcing by laws that seeks to safeguard the rights of the girl child. In this regard, the chiefs say they have agreed to ban early marriages among girls and are making sure parents and guardians are keeping their girl […]
Malawi still registers high rate of under-five child deaths among newborn infants despite concerted efforts to reduce the mortality rate for the past five years. According to a released stakeholders report, statistics indicate that 30 of every 1000 newborn infants die within the period of zero to 28 days. The report was presented during an […]
A team of medical experts from the India government has committed itself to assist the Malawi government through The Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood realize its goal to fight down maternal and neonatal deaths through provision of training medical experts, resource mobilization and treatment of other diseases from pregnancy complication. Dr. Devlina […]
Opposition party’s parliamentarian in Malawi Jolly Kalero on Wednesday commended efforts by President Mrs Joyce Banda in promoting women’s health thorough her brain child the Presidential Initiative for Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood. The initiative was largely established to reduce maternal deaths among mothers in the country. Kalero made the commendation at Lumbadzi Health Centre in the […]
Traditional leaders in the area of T.A. Mkhumba in Malawi’s southern district of Phalombe have banned harmful traditional practices including the use of Traditional Birth Attendants. This was disclosed during the training for the chiefs in Phalombe organized by Senior Chief Kwataine, the chairperson of the Presidential Initiative on safe motherhood and maternal health. Before […]
Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda has received praise from the European Union Ambassador for Humanitarian Causes Tasha de Vasconcerous for her safe-motherhood campaign in the southern African country. Soon after assuming power, Banda launched the Presidential Initiative for Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood, a project that will focus on improving the current poor maternal health. […]
Aida, 31, is a mother of four and married. When she gave birth to her last child, the pregnancy was unplanned. Aida, of Bwelero in Traditional Authority (TA) Mankhambira, Nkhata-Bay District, says her husband had agreed to terminate the pregnancy when it was two months old. But when Aida went to Nkhata-Bay District Hospital, medical […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Wednesday pledged to make a personal donation of fertilizers to the chiefs in the country. She made the pledge at the New State House in the capital Lilongwe where she was hosting 66 chiefs from the country’s central region. The President said she is pleased with what she said rightful […]
Senior Chief Lukwa of Malawi’s central district of Kasungu has said the rising maternal deaths in the country would only be reduced should parents encourage young girls to stay in school. He was speaking Saturday during the installation ceremony of 12 chiefs held at Chidzenje area in the district where he asked the new chiefs […]
Carlsberg Malawi on Thursday donated three 40×3-foot containers of medical and biomedical equipment worth MK249m to Malawi Government at a function held at the New State House in Lilongwe. The donation will go to Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe and includes items such as crutches,baby scales,walking aides,gloves, hospital beds,anethesia machines,ultrashound units,IV sets,sutures,surgical drapes and other […]
I would like to first congratulate President Joyce Banda for making her maiden speech at the 67th United Nations General assembly whose theme is “Bringing about adjustments and settlements of international disputes or situations by peaceful means.” It was an eloquent speech in which she has articulated well the socio-economic challenges which are faced in developing […]
Traditional leaders from Malawi’s southern district of Balaka have hailed the presidential safe motherhood initiative saying it has helped reduce maternal health in the district. Speaking at a meeting organized by the chairperson of the initiative Senior Chief Kwataine of Ntcheu, the traditional leaders expressed their commitment towards the initiative promising to assist President Joyce […]