Category: Health

In this Century people shouldn’t be drawing from unsafe sources * Climate change acts as a threat multiplier for water * Worsening problems caused by poor management of water resources * Without easy access to clean water, people’s lives are blighted by sickness, poverty * And also worsens the endless drudgery of collecting water by vulnerable women By Duncan Mlanjira WaterAid Malawi has reiterated its emphasis on the need to take urgent actions to help poor communities adjust to…

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* So far K4 million raised of the needed K11 million treatment cost at Atermis Hospital * She needs to go Atermis Hospital within 8 weeks from March 10, 2021 * She received chemotherapy and mastectomy treatment at Queen Elizabeth Hospital By Duncan Mlanjira Concerned citizens and relations of breast cancer-stricken, 28-year-old Chikondi Kazembe, are appealing to well-wishers to donate funds towards helping her travel to India for specialized treatment, which is quoted at US$15,000 (K11 million). The ‘Chikondi…

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* To ensure that more vaccination sites become operational to increase access in the districts * The delivery platform remains the government and CHAM health facilities * The public to contact their local health authorities for specific vaccination schedules for their areas * There were 528 new COVID-19 recoveries in the past 24 hours of 21 were new with three new deaths By Duncan Mlanjira The presidential task force on COVID-19 says the government is continuously working on training more vaccination…

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* The number of those vaccinated in Malawi, is at 23,907 since the roll out on March 11 * South Africa remains as having the most reported COVID-19 cases so far at 1,535,423 including 52,035 deaths * Malawi ranks at number 20 with cumulative figure of 33,216 cases including 1,093 deaths By Duncan Mlanjira As Malawi is going into the second phase of administering the AstraZeneca vaccine, the public should gain confidence that fellow African countries are also seriously reaching…

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President Chakwera was first to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 11 * Blantyre DHO rolls out second phase from Monday, March to 22-26 * Targeting the elderly; those with commorbidities and other social workers * Over 861 centers across the country will provide the vaccination services * About 1.4 million Malawians are expected to be vaccinated * There were 129 new COVID-19 cases, 315 new recoveries, one new death as of Friday By Duncan Mlanjira Since the COVID-19…

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Mihowa (right) presenting communication flyers for better nutrition  * District councils are not preparing budget lines for the sector * Media has a role to play to help in influencing policy makers * To consider allocating more resources at all levels of development By Tione Andsen, MANA Oxfam Malawi has said budgetary allocation for the nutrition sector has been minimal since 2016 with less than one percent being allocated in the total national budget. This was disclosed by Oxfam…

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WaSH is a global initiative * Arguing it is no longer necessary since the Ministry of Education is now drilling boreholes * This is despite calls by stakeholders on the importance WaSH in the COVID-19 fight * This reasoning reflects very narrow understanding of WaSH in the context of the fight against COVID-19–WaterAid * The decision to de-activate it is to be evaluated against the background that it is a COVID-19 response at global level By Duncan Mlanjira The…

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