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Oral Health For Mental Health Patients Manual launched

June 27, 2022 Healthtimes

Mental and Oral Health professionals have launched an Oral Health for Mental Health Patients Manual as a response to health practitioners request to help improve the oral care of mental health patients in the country. By Patricia Mashiri The manual aims to increase oral and mental health awareness whilst equipping health professionals in the role they play in management of oral health of patients living with mental health conditions . The project is also meant to uphold mental and oral health professionals, abolish oral and mental inequalities and pursuit of…

South Africa records its first case of Monkeypox

June 23, 2022 Healthtimes

South Africa has recorded its first case of Monkeypox in the country. Health Minister Joe Phaahla was briefing the media on Thursday on the repeal of regulations on notifiable medical conditions dealing with the covid-19 pandemic and on monkey-pox. Phaahla says they received a report late on Wednesday from the National Health laboratory Services CEO that they have confirmed through laboratory tests the first case of monkeypox in South Africa. “The patient is a 30-year-old male from Johannesburg who has no travel history, meaning that this cannot be attributed to…

Novartis announces USD250 million pledge to tackle NTDs and Malaria

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 Healthtimes

PHARMACEUTICAL manufacturing giant Novartis renews its commitment to ending Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases pledging USD 250 million while endorsing the Kigali Declaration on NTDs made at the Kigali Summit on Malaria and NTDs. Staff Reporter The USD 250 million is a five year financial commitment meant for research and development of new treatments to combat NTDs and Malaria. This summit comes at a pivotal time for world leaders to reaffirm commitments to end neglected tropical diseases and malaria through the adoption of the Kigali Declaration. The declaration aims to mobilize political will…

PSMI blames Finance Ministry for salary woes

June 22, 2022 Healthtimes

PREMIER Service Medical Investments (PSMI) has laid the blame on Treasury for the staggered and delayed salaries. Staff Reporter PSMI is a Premier Service Holdings Company unit responsible for the management of health facilities. In a circular dated June 20, 2022 seen by HealthTimes, PSMI managing director Dr Tafadzwa Gutu explained that the delay in salary payments was in part on the back of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development’s failure to honour its promises in time. It is also important to note that Treasury is yet to review…

10 Sex Positions for When You Both Just Want a Quickie Wham, bam, thank you, ma’am.

June 20, 2022 Healthtimes

Quickie sex is a gift given by the gods—one that many of us don’t utilize nearly enough. Don’t get me wrong, we’d all love to have a 24-hour sex marathon. But we’re grownups, and we have stuff to do. We have to pick up the kids from school, have an evening call with the boss, or any number of life’s other commitments and inconveniences. That’s why sometimes, when your schedule gets crazy busy, setting aside just a few minutes to get intimate with your partner can seem like an impossible…

WHO highlights urgent need to transform mental health and mental health care

June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 Healthtimes

The World Health Organization today released its largest review of world mental health since the turn of the century. The detailed work provides a blueprint for governments, academics, health professionals, civil society and others with an ambition to support the world in transforming mental health. By Staff Reporter In 2019, nearly a billion people – including 14% of the world’s adolescents – were living with a mental disorder. Suicide accounted for more than 1 in 100 deaths and 58% of suicides occurred before age 50. Mental disorders are the leading…

Govt gazettes new private health workers salaries

June 17, 2022June 18, 2022 Healthtimes

GOVERNMENT has gazetted a new Statutory Instrument for a Collective Bargaining Agreement which will see health workers in the private sector are to receive salaries in the range of USD273 to USD536. By Kudakwashe Pembere This CBA was between the Medical and Allied Industry, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Medical Professionals and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe and Medical and Allied TradesWorkers Union of Zimbabwe being parties to the National Employment Council for the Medical and Allied Industry. Previously they were earning between USD222 for the lowest paid…

Health workers to go on strike

June 17, 2022June 19, 2022 Healthtimes

ZIMBABWE’S Health Apex Council says health workers in the public sector will as of Monday be on strike noting their grievances are not being addressed. By Kuda Pembere Some of the grievances are closure of negotiation space, failure to provide meaningful cost of living adjustment and failure to review the Regrading System. In a letter to the Health Service Board (HSB), the Zimbabwe Health Apex Council (ZHAC) which represents several health workers unions said they arrived at this decision following a meeting held today. “Following our meeting on the 17th…

Over 1 million child brides in Zim: UNICEF

June 17, 2022June 20, 2022 Healthtimes

MASHONALAND CENTRAL tops the list of provinces with the highest number of young girls married before 18 in Zimbabwe with Matebeleland South having the lowest. By Kudakwashe Pembere Mash Central accounted for over 50 percent of the girls married before 18 years according to a UNICEF latest report on Child Marriages. In the report, there are over 1 million young Zimbabwean girls married before the age of 18 with 241 000 of these betrothed below 15 years. Matebeleland North, Midlands, and Harare had between 21 and 30 percent. Mashonaland West,…

Government officials eye PSMAS takeover: Mliswa

June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Healthtimes

NORTON legislator Honourable Temba Mliswa says there are some government officials who want to snap up the Premier Service Holdings Company which runs Zimbabwe’s largest subscribed medical aid company, the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS). By Kudakwashe Pembere This comes following claims that Government wanted to take over the company which Vice President and Health Minister Dr Constantine Chiwenga refuted. Taking to Twitter, Hon. Mliswa urged unions must shootdown this move in an Annual General Meeting (AGM) to happen in the coming two weeks. ” I’m told that some…