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According to a Study, Men Don’t Exaggerate When They Have The Flu

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THE Oxford and the Cambridge dictionaries define the term “flu” as a disease similar to a cold, that’s not serious, but that could be stronger if the person who suffers from it is a man. For illustration, the dictionary says: “John has a touch of man flu and he won’t get out of bed.” SOURCE: Men’s Corner It’s because of this definition that this research emerged, to provide a more precise explanation for whether this is true and why it could happen. Mice are the subject of this study because they serve as good human…

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WHO Launches Digital App To Improve HealthCare For The Elderly

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THE World Health Organisation (WHO) on  Tuesday on the International Day of Older Persons – 1 October – launched  a package of tools, including a digital application to help health and social workers provide better care for older people. The innovative interactive digital application known as WHO ICOPE Handbook App provides practical guidance to address priority conditions including mobility limitations, malnutrition, vision and hearing loss, cognitive decline, depressive symptoms and social care and support. Used in conjunction with a package of tools including a new handbook, the app will accelerate…

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Senior Doctors Declare Incapacitation

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ZIMBABWE’S senior doctors have joined junior doctors in declaring incapacitation citing their remuneration is not at par with regional standards. By Kudakwashe Pembere With a month passing by since junior doctors’ industrial action, the senior doctors’ throwing weight behind their juniors will leave the state owned hospital void of any doctor. The Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA) said, “In terms of section 65(1) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, we have a right to fair and safe labour practices and standards and to be paid a fair and reasonable wage. Our…

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Speed Up Medical Aid Services Bill, ED Tells Parliament

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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says parliamentarians should expedite the tabling of the Medical Aid Services Bill. By Kudakwashe Pembere He said this while presenting the State Of The Nation Address (SONA) and official opening of the second session of the Ninth Parliament on Tuesday. The Medical Aid Societies bill will pave way for the establishment of the Medical Aid Society Regulatory Authority. This bill seeks to ensure that medical aid societies operate within the law as healthcare insurers rather than doubling up as healthcare providers,” said the President. He bemoaned the…

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‘Shun Stigma Towards People With Ostomy’

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HEALTH workers and homecare givers should stop stigmatising people living with ostomy through offering psychosocial support. By Kudakwashe Pembere Ostomy is a surgery where surgeons create an opening also known as stoma from an area inside the body to the outside to treat digestive or urinary systems. This came out during a sensitisation meeting on ostomy on Monday hosted by Ileostomy Colostomy Zimbabwe Trust. A Sister in Charge at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in the departments of Oncology and Pallative Care  Roseline Changondolo urged nurses to shun arrogance when managing…

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Zim Runs Out Of Baby Growth Monitoring Charts

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ZIMBABWEAN mothers have gone for several months  without baby growth monitoring chart cards  and have since resorted to clinic or hospital cards used for ‘over fives’, HealthTimes has learnt. By Kudakwashe Pembere The unavailability of these ‘baby cards’ has deprived mothers access to critical growth monitoring information, plunging the health of  babies in jeopardy. Health Ministry’s Family Health Director Dr Bernard Madzima told this publication the importance of these cards. “The cards which you are talking about are called ‘Road To Health Cards’ or ‘Growth Monitoring Cards’. They are for…

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240 Nurses Graduate At Parirenyatwa Hospital

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ABOUT 240 nurses trained at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals graduated on Friday as registered general nurses, midwives, renal nurses, ophthalmology, theatre, anesthetics, Intensive Care Unit nurses,and administrative nurses. By Kudakwashe Pembere Officiating the graduation ceremony on behalf of the Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo, Health Service Board vice chair Professor Auxillia Munodawafa-Chideme said the training fostered key principles of health quality assurance and improvement. This includes ensuring a patient centred, participatory and equitable approach. A holistic approach to patient care which considers patients’ preferences, needs and values…

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2020 Health Levy Collections To Drop

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THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) has revised downwards its monthly target for revenue collected  from the 5% health levy to ZW$10.5 million down from their initial projection of ZW$17 million per month for the year 2020. By Michael Gwarisa The development follows a series of mobile tariff increases by local mobile network operators in the past few months which has led to a reduction in spending on voice calls by citizens on their cellphones. Ministry of Health Director Finance and Administration, Mrs Heather Machamire said collections from…

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Save The Children Offers Psychosocial Support To Cyclone Idai Affected Children

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SAVE The Children Zimbabwe is currently offering Psychosocial Support Services (PSS) to children in Cyclone Idai affected communities in a bid to empower children to overcome fear through building resilience as well as develop coping mechanisms. By Michael Gwarisa Through the use of a PSS toolkit called Singing to the lion’s by Dr Jonathan Brakash a Clinical psychologis, Save the Children has reached a total of 1463 children comprising of 777 girls and 686 boys with PSS activities that are implemented at two Child Friendly spaces they have set up…

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Let’s Scale Up HIV PrEP Roll-Out in Zimbabwe

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OUT of a population of 14 million about 1, 2 million Zimbabweans are living with HIV. The big question is, how can we stop new infections? By Paul Sixpence Among many options available, scaling up HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) roll out to people at risk could help in stopping new infections. As of September 2019 about 11 000 people had been initiated on PrEP since its regulatory approval in 2016. Zimbabwe is a HIV high burden country with thousands of new infections each year which makes the call for urgent,…

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