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Zimbabwe Red Cross Deploys Support Team And Assistance To Floods Affected Areas

January 26, 2022 Healthtimes

THE Zimbabwe Red Cross Society, ZRCS, has deployed surge support and started assessments in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland Central and Manicaland Provinces, while also distributing response materials to worst affected areas with the support of Danish Red Cross and Finish Red Cross. Own Correspondent Part of the response also includes offering first aid to the injured while pre-positioned relief materials will be distributed in response to needs assessment include tents/ tarpaulins, hygiene kits, blankets, jerrycans and mosquito nets. ZRCS volunteers are already on standby, while in some places such…

Ecobank Donates To Parirenyatwa Psychiatric Hospital

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Healthtimes

IN a move that is meant to raise awareness and help prevent non-communicable diseases including mental health challenges, Ecobank, one of the leading financial institutions in Zimbabwe has donated various items to help at Parirenyatwa Psychiatric Hospital. By Patricia Mashiri The donated goods include assorted medicines to last for a year, 40 medical beds, assorted medical equipment, disinfectants, plates, spoons, cups, water. In his acceptance speech, Dr John Mangwiro, the Deputy Minister, Health and Child Care commended Ecobank for the gesture saying it will go a long way in addressing…

PSMAS Refurbishes Presidential Guard Hospital

November 6, 2021November 6, 2021 Michael Gwarisa

ZIMBABWE’S leading medical aid firm, Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS), has handed over a fully refurbished hospital to the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Presidential Guard in Dzivarasekwa, Harare. By Michael Gwarisa The refurbishment of the facility covered the main hospital and outpatients which consist of consulting rooms, pharmacy, optometry, rehabilitation, x- ray, ultrasound scan, laboratory, dental, and procedure room. In his acceptance speech, Chief of Staff Administration, Major General Emmanuel Matatu said the gesture by PSMAS to renovate the health facility was testimony of the cordial relations the society…

Youth Aspire Partners Youth Council To Facilitate Formalization Of Businesses For Young People

October 21, 2021 Healthtimes

YOUTH Aspire Development Trust (YADT), an organization that promotes youths rights and sexual reproductive health rights (SRHR), through capacity building, advocacy and community mobilization has partnered with Zimbabwe Youth Council (ZYC) with the aim of capacitating young people around business formalization skills. By Patricia Mashiri Speaking during the training of the trainers session of youths in Chitungwiza, Joseph Mhasvi a Research and Documentation Officer with ZYC said they have been since last year, 2020 been assisting youths to formalize their businesses. This came after we realized that many youth businesses…

Community Health Workers Go Digital

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Healthtimes

WHEN Nelson Mwanawenyu, a nurse at a plantation estate clinic in Manicaland province applied for a position with a private health institution in the city of Mutare, he was told the interview would be conducted through the Skype social media platform. By Caiphas Chimhete, CWGH He innocently asked the secretary who had phoned him to give exact directions to Skype, which he thought were some magnificent building in the mountainous city. Mwanawenyu’s enquiry sent the secretary into a bout of laughter. She however later explained to him that Skype was…

World Vision and Partners Launch Project To Strengthen Community-led Actions On Education and disaster preparedness in five districts across Zimbabwe

September 6, 2021 Healthtimes

HARARE, ZIMBABWE: Christian, child-focused humanitarian aid agency, World Vision collaborating with Welthungerhilfe, Christian Blind Mission and various Government of Zimbabwe departments, has launched a project titled Strengthening Community-Led Actions on Education and Disaster Preparedness also known as SCALE-DP project. Health Reporter With an estimated €2,7million euros (US$3,2 million) funding from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid operations (ECHO), the project aims to improve disaster preparedness, early response and access to inclusive education in protective environments for 135,555 children, 40,025 women and 36,946 men. The two-year project which began its…

Mukando Boost For People Living With HIV In Mash Central

August 30, 2021 Healthtimes

THE Zimbabwe National Network of People Living With HIV (ZNNP+) has improved livelihoods of People Living With HIV (PLHIV) in Mashonaland Central through Internal Savings and Lending (ISAL) projects or Mukando. By Patricia Mashiri Through assistance from Troicare, ZNNP+ gave Kushinga group based in Nyakudya village, Masembura in Mashonaland Central a total of US$150 to build internal savings and lending groups (Mukando) that would empower PLHIV economically. Before disbursing the funds, a feasibility assessment was done which ensured that a strong committee and other enabling modalities were in place. The…

BHASO’s Community Outreach Delivers ARVs To More Than 3000 Clients

August 29, 2021 Michael Gwarisa

THE Batanai HIV and AIDS Service Organisation (BHASO), a community based HIV and AIDS civil society organisation based in Masvingo has delivered Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) to not less than 3000 clients at the back of its community outreach programs. Staff Reporter Through their official page, BHASO said the, “Community Outreach is one form of decentralizing health services by the government of Zimbabwe. It recognizes the importance of bringing services within reach of many, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. Through community outreach, more than 300 ART clients in and around Makugwe…

CeSHHAR Awarded Templeton World Charity Foundation Grant To Implement Zvandiri Project

August 28, 2021 Healthtimes

Dr. Webster Mavhu, CeSHHAR Deputy Director, has been competitively awarded a three-year grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to implement the project “The Zvandiri (As I am) character strength and its constructs among adolescents living with HIV in Zimbabwe”. This project will examine and measure how the Zvandiri programme can sustainably engage adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) to develop the character strengths embedded within the indigenous concept of ‘Zvandiri’ (accept me as I am), so that they can flourish and live well within their communities. This project builds on…

Stanbic Donates ZW$3.5 Million Worth Products To Albino Charity

August 19, 2021 Healthtimes

Stanbic Bank has donated sun protection products worth ZWL 3.5 million to the Albino Charity Organization of Zimbabwe (ALCOZ). By Patricia Mashiri The donated products include 1000 units of sunscreen lotions,1 000 units of antibacterial soap,1 000 units of antiseptic liquid, 1 000 units of lip balm, 1000 units of antiseptic ointment and 1 000 sunhats. Speaking during the handover ceremony Lucy Dlodlo, Manager for Sponsorship, Events and CSI Stanbic Bank said the institution was committed to play its part in protecting people with albinism from the sun cognizant of…