Category: Health News

EMS Guru Turner Dies

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EMERGENCY medical services (EMS) veteran Mr Graige Turner has died. By Kudakwashe Pembere He was 62. Mr Turner passed away on Sunday after a long illness. Mr Turner was the Head of Department at Premier Service Medical Investments’ Emergency Medical Rescue Ambulance Service (EMRAS) for the past nine years. He was once an army captain. Mr Turner also worked with companies like MARS before joining EMRAS. EMRAS Clinical Base Harare Manager Mr Lovemore Mujere reminisced how he was groomed by Mr Turner. “Working alongside this man my father was a…

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Gvt To Gazette Private Healthcare Services Fees

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ESCALATING private healthcare costs have left Government with no option but to gazette fees for health services without foreign currency components. By Kuda Pembere In a speech read on his behalf by United Bulawayo Hospitals chief executive Nonhlanhla Ndlovu at the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) All Stakeholders Conference on Health in Bulawayo on Thursday, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo  said his office would soon call for a Joint Advisory Council meeting to discuss the issue of people on medical aid being unable to afford…

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Full Report On Parirenyatwa Maternal Mortality Expected Next Week

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A comprehensive report on a Parirenyatwa Hospital  maternal mortality case which was reported in the media recently will be out next week as part of Government’s efforts to give closure to the grieving family. By Kudakwashe Pembere Speaking to HealthTimes during a presentation of the initial findings on the death of one Sharon Munyonho on Friday, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo represented by his Permanent Secretary Dr Agnes Mahomva said all they had were initial findings. I am not too sure about the pathology report but the…

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Stanbic Donates To People Living With Albinism

Michael Gwarisa

STANBIC Bank has donated a variety of sun protection products worth $140 000 to members of the Albino Charity Organisation of Zimbabwe (ALCOZ). The financial services institution donated 1 000 units of sunscreen lotions; 1 000 units of antibacterial soap; 1 000 units of lip balm and 1 000 sunhats. The donation comes as the prices of goods and commodities, inclusive of the sun protection products, continue sky rocketing out of the reach of this community due to the prevailing harsh economic environment. ALCOZ has been a major beneficiary of…

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Govt Pays Health Workers’ COLA

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GOVERNMENT says it has paid doctors the agreed Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) following their declaration of incapacitation. By HealthTimes Reporter In a statement issued by the Health and Child Care Ministry said a meeting on negotiations of the COLA was done last Wednesday. “The Health Service Bipartite Negotiating Panel (HSBNP) at its meeting held on the 28th of August 2019, agreed on a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to be paid to members of the Health Service with effect from 1 August 2019,” said the Health ministry. The Ministry…

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Harare Women Delivering In Candlelight

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WOMEN in most Harare City Polyclinics are delivering their new born babies with the aid of Candlelight owing to the prevailing power cuts which have crippled most health sector operations By Kudakwashe Pembere In an interview with HealthTimes, Harare City Health Director Dr Prosper Chonzi said they have been having challenges with the solar systems they use though they have since addressed the problems. That has been sorted I think. That has been rectified. There was a power problem recently. All our clinics have solar power as backups including the…

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Harare City Sets Aside ZW$3million For WASH

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ABOUT ZW$3 million has been earmarked for water, sanitation and hygiene projects in cholera hotspots to be on guard against further outbreaks in this year’s forthcoming rainfall season, a Harare City official says. By Kudakwashe Pembere Harare Mayor Counsellor Herbert Gomba told HealthTimes that they have sourced bowsers to prepare the City. We have sourced bowsers and made money available to prepare our city for the upcoming rainfall season. “We have set aside $3 million Zimbabwean dollars as Council and seeking for more from donors,” he said. Reflecting on the…

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Stronger Focus On Nutrition To Save 3, 7 Million Lives: WHO

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HEALTH services must integrate a stronger focus on ensuring optimum nutrition at each stage of a person’s life, a new report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends. By HealthTimes Reporter It is estimated that the right investment in nutrition could save 3, 7 million lives by 2025. “In order to provide quality health services and achieve Universal Health Coverage, nutrition should be positioned as one of the cornerstones of essential health packages,” said Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General at WHO. “We also need better food environments which allow all…

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Proposed Health Services Law To Trigger Massive Brain Drain

Michael Gwarisa

THE proposed Health Services Amendment bill could prompt massive skills flight among health professionals should it be passed into law as it stifles the rights of doctors to exercise their democratic right to protest unfavorable working conditions. By Michael Gwarisa In an interview with HealthTimes, Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA), acting president, Dr Peter Magombeyi said the proposed bill was draconian and not fit for the 21st century. The first thing that we want to correct about our honorable minister Obadiah Moyo’s statement is the terminology. Doctors are not on…

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#BREAKING: New NatPharm Board In First Sitting

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WITH barely three months after being appointed by the Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo, the new National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) board sits for its debut board meeting tomorrow morning, HealthTimes has learnt. By Kudakwashe Pembere NatPharm chairperson Dr Billy Rigava told this publication that appointment of Advocate Rachel Chibaya as Vice Chairperson preceded this meeting, setting the tone for the passing of resolutions.  She was selected by the Human Resources Committee, Finance amd Business Development Committee as well as the Audit risk and legal committee. All the…

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