Category: Health News

Crippling Doctors Strike Looms

Michael Gwarisa

DOCTORS have warned government to review their earnings according to the prevailing interbank market rate which is pegged at 8.7% or risk another industrial action which could cripple the health sector. By Michael Gwarisa This comes at the back of erosion of doctors and civil servants salaries by inflation which is currently hovering above 176% according to June inflation rates. In a letter written to the Health Services Board (HSB) by Dr Peter Magombeyi on behalf  the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA), he indicated that doctors were now incapacitated and…

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Gvt Mourns Dr Kumbirai Mubwandarikwa

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HEALTH and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo has described the death of Dr Kumbirai Mubwandarikwa a great loss to the nation . By Kudakwashe Pembere Dr Mubwandarikwa was 78. He succumbed to cancer on Sunday at his Borrowdale Home. The Health Minister reminisced numerous interactions with the Late. “He was a person who offered a lot of advice Kumbirai contributed a lot to Zimbabwe’s healthcare system,” he said. “Doctor Mubwandarikwa was a God Given to Zimbabwe. Its not just us who are in this room. There are not just…

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RETZ Trains Nutrition Citizen Journalists In Bindura

Michael Gwarisa

THE Rural Enterprise Trust of Zimbabwe (RETZ) has commenced training of young nutrition citizen Journalists in Bindura to improve reportage of nutrition related developments and challenges affecting the Bindura district. By Michael Gwarisa recently in Bindura The team of nutrition Journalists will be made up of children of high school going age from the district’s 15 wards as well as young farmers from rural and peri-urban Bindura. Speaking during the training which was graced by junior parliamentarians and young famers in Bindura, Media consultant and Media Studies Lecturer, Dr Jasper…

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ARV Stock-outs: More People Miss Doses In Chipinge

Michael Gwarisa

CHIPINGE recorded the highest number of households with members who missed Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) doses since beginning of the year 2019 at the back of drug stock outs amongst a host of other factors. By Michael Gwarisa Medicines stock-outs as for the period under review stood at 28% and was reported as the major reason for people missing ART doses while failure to access  health facilities  was at 20.9%, inadequate transport money to travel to health facilities 10.4% and forgetting to take medication by  members living with HIV 10.4%. According…

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Aspiring Nurses Stranded As Recruitment Platform Malfunctions

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ASPIRING nurses last week had a torrid time accessing the e-Nurses recruitment website application. The platform unleashed a month ahead of schedule saw applicants failing to either upload required documents or proceed with the stipulated ZW$10 Ecocash payment. Worse yet the site was inaccessible. Efforts to get a comment from the Ministry’s Nursing Director Mrs Cynthia Chasokela were fruitless by the time of publishing as her phone went unanswered. The platform was designed by Chinhoyi University of Technology. A source who requested anonymity said nurses were failing to apply for…

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GBV, The Evil Unfinished Business Stalking Zim

Michael Gwarisa

AFTER being confronted by her husband Tobias on countless times over her refusal to return to her parents’ home, Loveness (Not real Names) found herself at the receiving end of unrelenting abuse at the hands of her husband of four years. By Michael Gwarisa As the argument ensued one day, Tobias took an axe and without hesitation struck his wife three times on the head before fleeing the scene. By taking a glance at the oozing blood and the grisly scene of her bludgeoned head, one could conclude that Loveness…

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Pepfar partners Hpsl in HIV- AIDS campaign

Michael Gwarisa

THE United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Harare Professionals Soccer League (Hpsl) joined hands this week to launch the PEPFAR- Hpsl Test and Score Football Tournament. During the tournament, Pepfar partners will work with male professionals on HIV prevention, HIV testing and adherence to treatment. At PEPFAR, we are excited about this partnership and we will be monitoring progress as you play soccer and get to know more about smart decisions to protect yourself from acquiring HIV,” said Dr Ponesai Nyika, Public Health Specialist at…

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Study To Focus On Asthma Prevalence Among Zim Teenagers

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ZIMBABWE is among six countries participating in a study to assess the prevalence as well  as control of asthma in children aged between 12 and 14 years a team of researchers from the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences  starts it in September when schools open. By Kudakwashe Pembere The research, a first of its kind in the country will be done in conjunction with the Health and Care Ministry, City of Harare Health Department. Under the banner of a multinational project dubbed Achieving Controlled Asthma In Children In…

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Remove Age Restrictions To Contraceptives Access

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CIVIL Society organisations (CSOs) have called for the expeditious removal of legal barriers to access of Sexual, Reproductive and Health Services (SRH) for all ages so as to curb unwanted teenage pregnancies, STIs and HIV infection among young girls. By Kudakwashe Pembere At a Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC) and Compass Zimbabwe jointly organized workshop, it emerged health workers and pharmacists offer unsolicited counselling to adolescents seeking sexual and reproductive health services. So the issue that is there is that nurses, pharmacists should cease being mothers, fathers, aunts, grandmothers or…

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Save The Children Responds To Nutrition Needs In Cyclone Idai Hit Communities

Michael Gwarisa

SAVE the Children has responded to the Cyclone Idai disaster through providing food and nutrition needs to the affected communities. By Michael Gwarisa Through funding from Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), the relief program seeks to increase access to essential health services and prevent or improve health and nutrition outcomes among the affected communities. Speaking on the development, Save The Children Zimbabwe Nutrition Manager, Mthulisi Dube said the DEC funded Phase 1 Southern Africa Cyclone Idai 2019 project is covering Health, WASH and Nutrition activities. The project aims to meet the…

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