The Aerobathon workout, which aerobics enthusiasts organised as a fundraising mental health awareness at College of Medicine in Blantyre on November 23, managed to mobilize K3.5 million which has been used to buy materials to be donated at Zomba Mental Hospital. Organised by Lilongwe-based Sweat-factory Fitness Studio, the day-long event, which is an aerobic workout […]
Malawi’s health and education systems lack psychological systems to help children living with HIV cope with their cognitive and emotional states, now pilot Hospital Teen Clubs and story books have emerged with structures to fill the void. When 14-year-old Joyce makes her monthly track to Mzimba District Hospital, in northern Malawi to replenish her monthly […]
Malawi is slowly creeping into a dangerous place where more people are being tormented by mental health problems, Mental Health expert has warned. Prof. Chiwoza Bandawe was making a presentation to hundreds of fitness enthusiasts who attended an aerobathom event at the College of Medicine in Blantyre on Saturday. He said financial hiccups, marriage breakdown […]
Students at Cherub Private School in Lilongwe were on Thursday, 10th October encouraged and informed on ways to deal with depression, anxiety as well as understand the effects of drug and substance abuse through an event dubbed “The Youth Movement for Mental Health Awareness” (TYMMHA). Organized by a local event and entertainment management firm, Macadamia […]
People with disability state body, Macoha says it is establishing mental health forums in some parts of the country to curb the rising cases of suicide as there are about one death every two days. Macoha rehabilitation manager Lemison Njala says the forums would help people discuss openly and seek assistance on problems they are […]
Renowned Malawian arts journalist and blogger Harold Kapindu has released a music album depicting personal struggle with mental health related issues. Kapindu, a journalist for Nyasa Times and also writes Urban Trends column on Friday in The Nation newspaper, noted that it’s high time Malawians started addressing mental health to raise awareness. He is tackling the issue […]
A mental health specialist says inadequate funding is one of the factors which is crippling delivery of mental health services in the country. Speaking last week at Chiwaza in Nkhata Bay District during World Mental Health Commemoration Day, Director of Zomba Mental Hospital, Immaculate Chamangwana said her department does not have adequate psychiatric drugs and […]
Mental health experts say 300 people, mostly the youth, go mad every month due to abuse of alcohol and drugs and are referred to Zomba Mental Hospital. Director of Zomba Mental Hospital Immaculate Chamangwana says this number is alarming and puts a strain on meagre resources at the hospital which she said does not have […]
Ombudsman Martha Chizuma Mwangonde has made a frantic plea to National Assembly to increase a budget to mental health department from the current one per cent to five per cent of the health national budget, saying the mental health situation is pathetic and critical. Mwangonde made the plea to Parliamentary Committee on Health which summoned her […]
Doctor treating self-proclaimed leader of the so called Peoples Land Organisation (PLO) Vincent Wandale at Zomba Mental Hospital has recommended in a report submitted to Malawi Police Service that the treatment that has been put on him need to be taken long term for their effects to be shown. The medical report has been submitted to the […]
The High Court in Zomba has ordered that an application not to be sent to Zomba Mental Hospital by self the self-proclaimed ‘supreme leader’ of the so-called independent country, United States of Mulanje and Thyolo (Must), Vincent Wandale, be heard by the Lilongwe High Court. Medical doctors said Wandale is suffering from a mental disorder and […]
Vincent Wandale, self-proclaimed leader of the United States of Thyolo and Mulanje (MUST) and Peoples Land Organisation (PLO), is rejecting to take any medication at Zomba Mental Hospital, saying he is afraid he could be eliminated. Wandale said he is refusing to take the medication unless it is administered by his chosen physician. “I am […]
The self-proclaimed ‘supreme leader’ of the so-called independent country, United States of Mulanje and Thyolo (Must), Vincent Wandale, on Monday spend a night at Zomba Mental Hospital after medical doctors certified him that he is suffering from a mental disorder and court ordered he be sent to psychiatric facility. Doctors who examined Wandale recommended to […]
The self-proclaimed ‘supreme leader’ of the so-called independent country, United States of Mulanje and Thyolo (Must), Vincent Wandale,has said he fears that the government wants to kill him at Zomba Mental Hospital where the court has ordered him to go for treatment after medical doctors said he is suffering from a mental disorder. Senior Resident […]
Ministry of Health (MoH) has called for concerted efforts among stakeholders in the health sector in supporting people suffering from mental problems in work places saying there is an increase of such cases each year. Chief Director in the Ministry of Health Benson Chisamile made the call Saturday during the commemoration of World Mental Health […]
Watson Mpeketula, 55, from Chilomoni Township in Blantyre testifies about the agony and trauma of raising a mentally ill child. “My 18 year old son [name withheld] started showing signs of mental illness in 2015. “He would constantly disappear from home for days and when he later returned, my wife (Nancy) and I would discover […]
“Next time it could be you or someone you love dearly on the unpleasant mental ropes. Together, we can do something; and the time is now.” My beloved paternal aunt has been struggling with clinical depression for more than five years. And it’s no walk in the park – neither for her, nor for those […]
Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust (AYCT) Coordinator Patrick Bwanali has condemned the behavior of some Malawians who continues to discriminate people who are mentally challenged or were once mentally affected. Bwanali told Nyasa Times in an interview: “I think the government through social welfare offices and the rest of us Malawians are not doing enough to […]