Author: Healthtimes

THE Zimbabwean Government with support from the United Nations Population Fund Zimbabwe (UNFPA Zimbabwe)  alongside the European Union launched mobile one stop centres to improve access to services for Gender Based Violence survivors in the country. By Kudakwashe Pembere The launch of the mobile One Stop Centre campaigns is being launched under the joint UN-EU Spotlight Initiative set up by the European Union to end the problem of GBV in Zimbabwe.  The Ministry has commissioned four one stop centres in Makoni, Gwanda, Gweru and Chinhoyi and in the past two…

GOVERNMENT will roll out the latest Tuberculosis (TB) Preventative Therapy regime early next year for the treatment of latent TB. By Kudakwashe Pembere Recently in Kadoma Speaking to journalists at a Stop TB Partnership Zimbabwe Media Training on TB Reporting, deputy director for the Aids and TB unit in the Health Ministry, Dr Charles Sandy said preventive therapy is a strategy for reducing the incidence of TB. Dr Sandy said over the past years they have been using Isoniazid taken once daily for a period of six months. He said…

HEALTH and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo has dismissed the findings  in the special audit report on private public partnerships at Chitungwiza Central Hospital saying they were a creation of people with ulterior motives. By Kudakwashe Pembere He said this during the Health Professions Authority Annual General Congress on Wednesday. “So far we have an example of Chitungwiza central hospital which is in a mutually beneficial PPP. Irrespective of what you see on the Whatsapp, the social media, those are being engineered by people with ulterior motives. We also…

FORTY-six fired doctors have been reinstated after heeding to the moratorium extended to return to work without hassles, a Cabinet Minister has revealed. By Kudakwashe Pembere Addressing journalists at a Tuesday Post Cabinet Media Briefing, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo said 46 returned to work. “The situation with regards to those who listened to the call from His Excellency, we have 46 who came back,and these 46 if they were dismissed, they are no longer dismissed, they are now reinstated,” he said explaining the doctors had to…

GOVERNMENT has promised to have free accommodation for doctors and other health workers by March and June next year. By Kudakwashe Pembere This emerged at a joint Ministry of Health and Child Care and Ministry of Housing and Social Amenities press briefing at Parirenyatwa  Group of Hospital. Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo said the Ministry Of National Housing in the accommodation arrangement will start the construction of flats for doctors and nursing staff and other healthcare workers. “It has to be a fully composite situation where our…

WITH the doctors’ industrial action inching 90 days, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association find the moratorium offered by government a high sounding nothing coming without a reasonable offer to the table. By Kudakwashe Pembere In a statement, ZHDA said to them, the moratorium lacked substance. “We appreciate the role played by the Catholic bishops which has resulted in the doctors being issued a moratorium, valid for the next 48hrs. Sadly the moratorium has come without a new offer on the table having been communicated to us. “Should this moratorium lapse…

HIGHERLIFE Foundation has launched a ZW$100 million training fellowship for junior and senior medical resident officers employed at public health institutions in Zimbabwe. By Kudakwashe Pembere Eligible for the fellowship are Joshua Nkomo Capernaum Trust alumni and non-alumni. HLF said the $100 million fellowship will last for six months, with funding contingent upon fellows remaining enrolled in their programmes for that period and satisfying the stipulated requirements. “The $100 million fellowship comprises a non-negotiable monthly subsistence allowance of $5 000 (five thousand Zimbabwean dollars) per doctor for a maximum of…