Only 3 vehicles to be allowed access to Queens Hospital’s mortuary premises to ease congestions

The mortuary at Queens  * Number of mourners per family restricted to 20 to observe hospital sanitation and security * The hospital also prohibits holding of full funeral services and singing of religious hymns * While advising religious leaders to stick to just offering prayers before leaving the mortuary premises By Duncan Mlanjira Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre has issued fresh instructions on visits to its mortuary by restricting just three vehicles to be allowed access to the…

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Some Blantyre City residents will be required to be relocated to pave way for sewer line networks and associated facilities

* Consultant currently conducting an inventory of affected assets intended to set strategies to mitigate adverse resettlements impacts to safeguard livelihoods and to estimate the costs necessary for resettlement and compensation * About 1.4 million residents of Blantyre City and its sorrounding ares are expected to benefit from improved a water and sanitation services * 330,000 in with improved water services and 100,000 with improved sanitation for the rehabilitation and upgrade of sewerage network and treatment * About 480,000…

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Health centres to be upgraded into community hospitals to decongest major public facilities

* The initiative is aligned with national health sector policies aimed at improving service delivery and ensuring that citizens access quality health services within a reasonable distance By Tarcizio Mondwe & Wanangwa Tembo, MANA When Minister of Health & Sanitation Madalitso Baloyi was officially commissioning  a K400 million laboratory for Chileka Health Centre in Blantyre, she indicated that the Government has plans to upgrade this health facility as well as several others into community hospitals as part of efforts…

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Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital equipped with Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine

* First of its kind in the country’s public hospitals that will reduce the need to refer patients abroad for specialised scanning services * It has the capacity to scan between 50 and 150 patients per day with conditions such as brain tumours and nerve-related complications By Dan Kosondo, MANA Minister of Health & Sanitation, Madalitso Baloyi has today commissioned a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment at Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital that is expected to improve advanced diagnostic services…

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US, Malawi sign 5-year US$936 million bilateral health cooperation agreement

* The agreement outlines a comprehensive co-investment framework designed to save lives and strengthen Malawi’s infectious disease prevention and response capabilities By Innocent Manda, MANA The governments of the United States of America (USA) and the Republic of Malawi have signed a five-year health cooperation memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening disease prevention, response, and long-term health system sustainability. In a press statement released today and signed by the USEmbassy Public Affairs Officer, Grand Phillip, the agreement outlines…

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Born between boxes: The silent struggle of intersex people in Malawi

* The way forward is clear — education, protection, and respect for bodily autonomy. Parents need accurate information, not fear * Communities need open conversations. And government systems — from health to education to civil registration — must recognise intersex people as human beings with rights * Some civil society organisations are beginning to include intersex issues in broader discussions on sexual and reproductive health and rights — however, activists say progress is slow By a correspondent All the…

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Healthy employees is good business all round—Illovo Sugar Malawi Nchalo Estate in commemorating World AIDS Day

General Manager Ricky Pillay leading the commemoration parade * Under the theme; ‘We remember, we lead, we rise to transform the response’, which reminds that the fight against HIV/Aids is not over * Spread love, not HIV; let’s unite in the fight against AIDS by getting tested and if positive, start and stay on treatment * Support colleagues, fight stigma and be champions of change — together we can rise to transform the response and ensure a healthier, stronger…

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CDH Investment Bank contributes two fronts towards NPL Mothers health initiative; sleepover challenge and K10m investment

Kwatiwani (right) hands over the funds to Nation on Sunday Editor, Emmanuel Luciano * Chief Human Capital Development Officer, Ivy Kwatiwani spent a night at Santhe Health Care Clinic on October 10 * It was a huge eye opener for her on the challenges that expectant mothers face in remote rural health care settings * She appreciated firsthand the need to support investment in our health care systems, particularly for maternal and neonatal health * Santhe Clinic had no…

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Medical doctor Victoria Bobe shot dead in cold blood through the head by gunmen in an invasion of her Chigumula home

Late Dr. Bobe * The 33-year-old Dr. Bobe was a senior obstetrician and gynaecologist at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and long-serving lecturer at KUHeS * She was merciless shot after she and her husband couldn’t provide the money the gunmen demanded for invading their home Maravi Express Police in Limbe, Blantyre, have assured the public that they are on the man-hunt of unknown criminals for cold blood murder of medical doctor and lecturer at the Kamuzu University of Health…

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Religious organisation highly commends High Court ruling mandating medical practitioners to provide safe abortion to minors who fall pregnant due to rape

Religious Leaders Network for Choice National Coordinator, Rev Nyekanyeka * Religious Leaders Network for Choice advocates dignity for all human beings and believes that rape, defilement and sexual abuse are evil and should not be justified * As the court recognised and confirmed that health is not just an absence of illness but it goes beyond that to include mental health which is also of great concern to society * By making emphasis on the mental health aspect of…

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