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Harare Institute For Public Health Caps 156 Graduands

June 26, 2023June 26, 2023 Kuda Pembere

ONE hundred and fifty–six people graduated at the second Harare Institute of Public Health (HIPH) graduation ceremony on Saturday after excelling and completing studies as pharmacy technicians, dispensary assistants and public health practitioners. By Kuda Pembere Speaking at the event, HIPH principal Dr Amos Marume said they gave been implementing heritage based solutions in their education curricula. The heritage-based solutions thrust being fronted by our very own Ministry is also one of our impor:ant guiding principles. Allow me to highlight some of the developments in brief. First, we have seen…

Zim widows call for opportunities in private sector

June 26, 2023 Kuda Pembere

WIDOWS in Zimbabwe commemorated International Widows Day on Friday amidst calls on government and the private sector to provide them with opportunities which keep them busy to quell the depression and other mental health disorders associated with being widowed. By Kuda Pembere Circle of Comfort founder Mrs Maurine Ngwenya on the s said widows being very hard working like to keep busy doing projects which can help them fend for their children. She said widows should be gainfully employed in factories while being afforded the chance to further their education.…

Govt to decentralise Open Heart Surgeries

June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 Kuda Pembere

GOVERNMENT will decentralize the provision of open-heart surgeries in the country with the next facility targeted being Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo. By Kuda Pembere Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantine Chiwenga said this on the sidelines of a tour of Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals which resumed the open-heart surgery procedures. PGH is at the moment the only health facility in the country doing this procedure. The first patient to have this procedure performed on is a 29-year-old Ms Blessing Bonda who was diagnosed as…

600 adults on Zim’s open heart surgery waiting list

June 22, 2023 Kuda Pembere

WITH Zimbabwe set to resume its open-heart surgeries on Thursday, there are about 600 adults waiting on the line alongside 4 000 children who are waiting to receive this operation. By Kuda Pembere Speaking with HealthTimes, specialist cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Dr Simukayi Machawira said every year, about 4 000 children in the country are born having a heart condition. What I can tell is that roughly we have about 600 adult patients on the waiting list. As for children, there are about 4 000 children born with a heart…

CeSSHAR, NAC empower Beitbridge sex workers

June 18, 2023January 18, 2024 Kuda Pembere

Donning a baby-blue t-shirt, is a bespectacled bubbly 55 year old woman feeling young enough to compete with the ama2000 who are plying the sex work trade, the oldest profession in the world. By Kuda Pembere recently in Beitbridge Widowed, left a pauper with four children, the tinted short-haired Winnie Phiri was advised by a neighbour to venture into sex work as a way out of poverty. As a sex worker, she thought unprotected sex would please her clients as she did her husband. Coupled with the gang-rape, Winnie was…

Public Health Practitioners Association of Zim launched

June 18, 2023 Kuda Pembere

THE Public Health Practitioners Association of Zimbabwe (PHPAZ) was on Friday launched following a resolution from the Public Health Symposium held last year to influence agenda setting on public health priorities in the country. By Kuda Pembere The association comprises of members from various fields such as environmental health, nutrition, law, pharmaceutical development, social science amongst other disciplines and intends to bond all stakeholders in the healthcare industry towards the common goal of improving health in the communities. One of the primary objectives of this association is to promote disease…

Over 4 000 Malnourished Zim children Admitted In Hospital

June 12, 2023 Kuda Pembere

INCREASING poverty levels coupled with shortages of Ready To Use Therapeutic Foods (RTUFs) like ‘Plumpy-Nut,’ has resulted in 4 300 children being admitted in hospital for wasting, a scenario which threatens to derail the gains made in reducing wasting amongst children under five years. By Kuda Pembere The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes wasting as acute malnutrition. It is a sign that a child has experienced short periods of undernutrition, resulting in significant wastage of muscle and fat tissue. This means their weight is very low for their height. In…

NAC sponsored goat project helps feed Gwanda Prison inmates

June 12, 2023 Kuda Pembere

A goat rearing project at the Gwanda Prison Farm in the Maphane area, sponsored by the National AIDS Council(NAC), is proving to be a force to reckon with as the project has grown to the extent of being expanded into prisons and correctional facilities. By Kudakwashe Pembere recently in Gwanda The goat-rearing project commenced in 2015 following a donation by NAC of 83 goats to the prison. Over the years, the project at the prison now has a herd of about 204 and cumulatively the Matebeleland South province now boasts…

POSB Donates Sanitary Wear to Marimasimbe Secondary School Girls in Gokwe

June 8, 2023 Kuda Pembere

THE People’s Own Saving Bank (POSB), a leading financial services provider in the country has donated sanitary wear to Marimasimbe Secondary School girls in Gokwe as part of its contribution towards promoting access to menstrual hygiene products through its ‘Donate a Pad and Keep a Girl in School’ launched early this year. By Staff Reporter Through this initiative, staff members donate pads or leave days which are converted to cash used to purchase sanitary wear. The Bank also contributes by matching the staff donation. The pads are then distributed to…

NAC’s HIV response efforts pay off for Mat South

June 2, 2023June 3, 2023 Kuda Pembere

THE HIV response in Matebeleland South has been improving dropping the prevalence and incidence rates in the province owing to consistent massive campaigns by the National AIDS Council (NAC) over the past 11 years. By Kuda Pembere recently in Gwanda This was said by the former NAC Mat South Provincial Manager Mr Isaia Abureni during a media tour around his province organised by the organization. Despite the province ranking the highest in terms of HIV prevalence in the country in most of the years, its incidence dropped by more than…