News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe City's Taps Could Run Dry by October
A health hazard looms in the central Zimbabwean city of Gweru as Gwenhoro dam, its main source of water, is left with just six weeks' supply. Although Gweru is one of the cleanest cities in the country, it has not been spared by diseases such as typhoid and cholera that hit Zimbabwe in 2018.
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe: Medical Aid Societies, Doctors Should Respect Lives
This aptly describes the situation in Zimbabwe in which medical aid holders find themselves. The country has been plunged into yet another health crisis, as it emerged this week that medical aid ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe: VP Chiwenga in Hospital in South Africa
Umwell Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is back in a South African hospital, a country he was hounded from by South Africa based Zimbabweans who felt it was rather cheeky of a man who has presided over dysfunctional health systems at home to abandon the same for better managed health facilities elsewhere.
News Zimbabwe Health: One-stop clinics, a rare lifesaver for Zimbabwe's sick
Blessing Chingwaru could barely walk without support when he arrived at the specialist Rutsanana clinic in Harare complaining of chest pains and fatigue. Weighing a skeletal 37 kilogrammes (82 pounds), the HIV-positive motor mechanic knew something was wrong. Dual infection by HIV and TB is a notorious
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe opens one-stop clinics to help poor patients
Dr. Silence Gavi is Health Services Manager at the Zimbabwe Platinum Mines. “You find that, that combination of low TB prevalence and a rock that is low in silica content and the fact that there is no ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe: New Chitungwiza Hospital Board Appointed
Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo yesterday appointed a five-member board of directors for Chitungwiza Central Hospital in line with Government's policy to reinvigorate the country's health delivery system.
News Zimbabwe Health: Cut off from care in flooded Zimbabwe, pregnant women airlifted to safety
HARARE, Zimbabwe – Chioniso Mutenda, 18 years old and nine months pregnant, lies on a bed in Mutambara Mission Hospital’s maternity waiting home. She is tired but relieved. Until recently, her safety and health were not assured. Just weeks ago, she survived Cyclone Idai, one of the worst storms to ever strike in the southern hemisphere. “The cyclone was powerful,” Ms. Mutenda recalled. “It destroyed houses, buildings and swept away people.”
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe: Econet Profit Remains Positive Despite De-Merger
Mobile telecommunications giant, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Limited (EWZL)'s profits remained in the positive despite a major decline to record $ 106 million for the year ending 28 February 2019 as compared to $ 132 million realized during the same period prior year following a de-merger with tech-firm Cassava Smartech.
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe: Nurses Abandon Strike Action After ED Wage Hike Assurances
The critical health staff had planned its industrial action for this Monday 24, June and beyond. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) said its executive met President Emmerson ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe: Children See HIV a Better Risk Than Hunger, Says Child MP
A JUNIOR member of parliament has admitted Zimbabwean minors were prepared to contract HIV/Aids by offering themselves to older sex partners for as long as they were guaranteed of receiving money to buy food.
News Zimbabwe Health: Case Study: Medical Cannabis As A Prescriptive For What Ails Zimbabwe
Representatives from Zimbabwe, Liberia, Rwanda, Uganda, and several other sub-Saharan African countries were interested to learn what influence cannabis could have on their health-care spending. In a ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Drug cartels, Natpharm stifling health sector
To borrow a bit from a speech by America’s 44th President, Barack Obama, that Zimbabwe’s health sector is facing a man-made crisis is now well understood. This is largely a consequence of greed and ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Health workers dying from Ebola in DR Congo
Health workers have also been affected – 93 of them have ... standard of safety when dealing with suspected Ebola patients. NewZimbabwe.com – The Zimbabwe News You Trust is Zimbabwe’s leading online ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe hosts a second regional meeting on the quest to develop non-chemical-based vector control interventions for malaria
This project could not have come at a more opportune moment, taking into consideration that malaria is the third leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Zimbabwe, and the country is among the ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Government of Zimbabwe Partners with GlobalMed for Virtual Care Pilot
today announced it has been selected by the government of Zimbabwe for a United Nations-funded project to provide telemedicine services and equipment at 16 clinics in the country's Manicaland province ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe makes significant strides towards ending TB
According to the Minister of Health Dr Obadiah Moyo, in a speech read on his behalf, Zimbabwe has made strides in reducing TB mortality from a peak of 25 TB deaths per 100 thousand in 2006 to 12 ...
News Zimbabwe Health: Zimbabwe: First Lady Appointed Health Ambassador
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has vowed to continue working hard to ensure that there is affordable and quality health care for everyone in the country. She said this while accepting the new role ...
