Category: Health News

Up to 180.000 health workers may have died from COVID-19

Healthtimes

BETWEEN 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from COVID-19 between January of 2020 and May of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. By Patricia Mashiri That grim estimate features in a new WHO working paper based on the 3.45 million coronavirus-related deaths reported globally to the UN health agency up to May; a figure that WHO said may well be at least 60 per cent lower than the actual number of victims. To highlight the need for better protection, WHO was joined by…

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#BREAKING: All 192 Nashville Students Test Negative For COVID-19

Michael Gwarisa

AN update by the Gweru COVID-19 task-force indicates that of all the 192 COVID-19 tests that were done on Nashiville Secondary School students, non of them came out positive. By Michael Gwarisa In an update by the task-force, they said, “Following reports circulating on social media on Nashville High school pupils alleging Covid 19 positive …and no reports being made to the responsible Ministry of Health. The following has been expeditiously done by the Response Team and Taskforce authorities headed by the DDC. 1. RRT dispatched by the Min of…

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#DEVELOPINGSTORY: Nashville Conducts Mass Testing For Pupils After Pictures Of Alleged COVID-19 Positive Students Go Viral

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NASHVILE Secondary School in Gweru has started mass COVID-19 testing of students in response to circulating pictures on social media of pupils lying helplessly in the sun and alleged to be down with COVID-19. By Patricia Mashiri The testing exercise commenced last night with teams from the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) havig been deployed to investigate, screen and test the pupils. Speaking to HealthTimes, a Nashville Secondary staff member who refused to be named confirmed that there were massive testing going on. The Headmaster and other administration…

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Zim Citizens Warned against Complacency….As New Delta Sub-Variant Wreaks Havoc

Michael Gwarisa

NEW coronavirus strains including a Delta variant sub-strain are already giving the world headaches, amidst indications that countries such as Russia and United Kingdom and even China have started recording record high death tolls and new infections linked to new strains. By Michael Gwarisa According to the Russian federal agency inspecting consumer rights protection and human wellbeing, several cases of AY.4.2, a new Delta sub-variant of coronavirus were already being detected. A report by Russia’s coronavirus emergency task force, indicates that the COVID-19 cases went up by 36,339 over the…

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DZT Celebrates Marginalized Deaf Community

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THE Deaf community has been described as isolated and needs to be celebrated as they are also thriving in so many ways. By Patricia Mashiri Giving his key note address at a belated International week of the Deaf (IWD) Commemorations, Mr Marvin Mukuyu, a model who is also an artist said it was sad that even though deaf people thrive in different sectors, they are rarely recognition and appreciated. We try to fit in but it is difficult. We need not to loose hope because we have to keep pushing…

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

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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…

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Medical Investments Limited opens “The Avenues Clinic Laboratory”

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Medical Investments Limited (MIL) has introduced a new strategic business unit, The Avenues Clinic Laboratory. The laboratory has been strategically set up to complement all the services offered under the MIL portfolio as well as to support healthcare services at large. The laboratory is headed by our General Manager, Lerato Natasha Sebata – a qualified Clinical Scientist with extensive experience in Medical Microbiology.   The aim of the laboratory is to offer expediency in treatment through timely diagnostic turnaround times and reliable clinical results. Deliberately set up in the upper Avenues…

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MSF Clinical Trial Reports That New Shorter Treatment Regimen Cured 89% Of Patients With Rifampin-Resistant TB

Michael Gwarisa

ON the 2nd day of  the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health (WCOLH) researchers presented data from a   study  that used  genome sequencing to effectively predict strains of tuberculosis susceptible to antibiotics that were likely to develop  drug resistance. By Michael Gwarisa The researchers looked at drug susceptible bacteria and aimed to identify mutations that would increase the probability of a bacteria becoming resistant in the future. The mutations confer “pre-resistance”. Monitoring these mutations could prevent the amplification of drug resistance in the population by targeting those bacteria more…

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Football champion Didier Drogba appointed WHO Ambassador for Sports and Health

Michael Gwarisa

FOOTBALL  legend Didier Drogba was today announced as the World Health Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Drogba, from Côte d’Ivoire, will support WHO to promote the Organization’s guidance on the benefits of physical activity and other healthy lifestyles, and highlight the value of sports, particularly for youth. HealthTimes Reporter Mr Drogba, well known for his football career at Chelsea and as a two-time African Footballer of the Year (2006 and 2009), has a long track record of participating in various health campaigns such as healthy lifestyles, anti-malaria and HIV…

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“Realizing the right to reproductive health and the future starts with sexual education

Michael Gwarisa

“I am 18 years old, and I am already thinking about getting married. In our area, girls get married early. I’m afraid that with my positive HIV status I won’t be able to find a boyfriend, which means I won’t have a family,” said Sayora Akmatova (not her real name), a participant of a training on sexuality education for adolescents living with HIV, held in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. More than 60 young people living with HIV and their parents from different regions of Kyrgyzstan recently participated in a series of trainings for…

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