President Joyce Banda has reiterated that her government will not allow any woman die which giving birth to a baby. Banda, who rose to prominence in Malawi as a relentless advocate for women’s rights, was speaking Madzanje Primary School in Ntcheu where she went for a safe motherhood campaign. The Head of State said maternal […]
President Joyce Banda on Saturday elevated Traditional Authority (TA) Kwataine of Ntcheu to Senior Traditional Authority as a reward for his active participation in development work and safe motherhood programmes. Banda elevated the chief to Senior Traditional Authority at Madzanje Primary School in his area at a maternal and safe motherhood campaign mass rally. Earlier, […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has urged traditional leaders, communities and all stakeholders to ensure that no woman delivers at traditional birth attendants to avoid maternal deaths which could otherwise be avoided. The President cautioned traditional birth attendants to avoid carrying out deliveries in the communities urging them instead to play the role of referring expectant […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda is offering mothers-to-be in public hospitals new hope with her newly introduced project to donate solar powered lamps to maternity wings, complementing her Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood project. Banda made the first donation of the lamps on Friday at Dowa district Hospital when she laid a foundation stone on […]
No Malawian woman should die because she wants to give birth, President Joyce Banda said on Friday at Dowa District Hospital when she laid a foundation stone for a maternity waiting home. Banda, who has always been an advocate for safe motherhood, said the maternity waiting home will help pregnant women access medical care at an […]
Britain’s government says it has noted with delight that Malawian women are able to make informed decisions on family planning methods of their choice. International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told journalists on Thursday immediately after touring sexual health and family planning services clinic – Banja la Mtsogolo (BLM) at Chilomoni township in Malawi’s commercial city Blantyre. […]
President Joyce Banda on Wednesday laid a foundation stone for Maternity Waiting Home and launched the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood in Mulanje with a resolve to gallantly fight against the alarming maternal deaths in Malawi. Speaking at Mulanje Park Ground after laying the foundation stone at Mulanje District Hospital, President Banda […]
The FDH Bank, a subsidiary of FDH Financial Holding Limited has given assorted medical equipment valued at K700, 000 to Mangochi District Hospital The equipment comprised an autoclave used in the operating theatre, suction machine and lamps for the maternity ward, infusion pumps and ventilators among other items. FDH Bank Managing Director, Jimmy Kayuni, said […]
It has been some weeks since President Mrs. Joyce Banda fired former First Lady, Callista Mutharika from the position of Safe Motherhood cordinator, where she was pocketing over MK1.3 million on top of government expenditure on her position as late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s wife. Callista was replaced by executive director at the National Organisation […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has emphasized the need to educate the girl child if the fight against maternal death is to be won. The President was speaking on Wednesday at her official residence in Lilongwe during an audience that she had with the national Chiefs steering committee on Presidential initiative on maternal health and safe […]
Newly appointed National Coordinator for Safe Motherhood in the Office of the President , Dorothy Ngoma says is expecting to enjoy full benefits and monthly remuneration in her new post. President Joyce Banda appointed well-known rights activist Ngoma to replace former first lady Callista Mutharika for the post which she had occupied the position for two years. […]
President Joyce Banda has finally fired former first lady Callista Mutharika from her position of national coordinator of the Safe Motherhood Initiative and replaced her with Dorothy Ngoma, executive director of the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives (NOMN). The firing of Callista and hiring of Ngoma were announced on Wednesday evening by the Office […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda, who rose to prominence as a relentless women’s rights advocate, has set up a Presidential Initative for maternal health and safemotherhood. Her Excellency Banda, who was dethroned as Malawi’s special ambassador on safemotherhood by late president Bingu wa Mutharika replacing her with his wife Callista Mutharika, made the announcement of the […]
Malawi’s expert gynaecologists Grace Chiudzu and Phylos Bonongwe, who the President Joyce Banda directed that they should be given an authorization letter to immediately start full time work, finally got accreditation to start work at the Ethel Mutharika Wing Hospital in Lilongwe. Banda recently accused the late Bingu wa Mutharika government for delaying in hiring the […]
Close to 700 hundred people die in childbirth every year in Malawi, many more lose their newborns due to poor health services and inadequate health personnel. Annually, nearly 6000 Malawi women are dying from preventable and treatable complications of pregnancy. In view of this, Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has directed the Ministry of Health to […]
Government of Malawi has lined up a mega employment plan that would see over 30,000 youths between the age of 18 and 30 joining the civil service from July 1st 2012, Nyasa Times can reveal. According to highly placed sources, the plan will drastically reduce the high levels of unemployment in the country which has […]
The World Bank has committed to support Malawi in the prevention of HIV and AIDS and reduction of child malnutrition through a new US$80 million Nutrition, HIV and AIDS project, a media statement for bank’s headquarters in Washington said. Approved by the World Bank’s Board of Directors on Wednesday, the project aims to make services […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Saturday gave a silent action to the call by Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a group of religious leaders and activists, that he should resign within 60 days or call for a referendum on his leadership within three months. In his speech when he presided over local commemorations of World […]