Category: Health

By Duncan Mlanjira Friday’s COVID-19 update indicates that Malawi has registered 523 new recoveries and no new related deaths while there were eleven new cases. Co-chairperson of the presidential task force on COVID-19, Dr. John Phuka says the new data indicates that the proportion of those that have recovered has neared 90% of the total confirmed cased while the number of active cases is below the 500 mark. “This is encouraging as it gives hope in this fight against COVID-19 pandemic,” Dr….

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By Duncan Mlanjira NICO Life and NICO Pension jointly donated K1.8 million to Global Health Interfaith Alliance (GAIA) for the completion of the construction of a new mobile clinic operation centre based at Chikuse Village in Mulanje. This is a second support as the two NICO Group subsidiary companies initially supported the project by injecting K542,100 to buy bags of cement last year to kick start construction up to roof level. GAIA’s Finance & Administration Manager, Adalileni Nkhata said…

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By Duncan Mlanjira In the past weeks, the country has not been recording any new COVID-19 related death but some new cases kept creeping in as local and imported transmissions, prompting co-chairperson of the presidential task force on COVID-19, Dr. John Phuka to plead with the public not to relax in the adherence to the preventive measures that are legally still in place. Following the new case of one new death from the 223 COVID-19 tests that were conducted…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Former Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) from 2004-2006, Ishmail Wadi has been highly praised and respected for revealing that he was diagnosed with a liver disease in 2009 and has lived with it ever since. His post on Facebook attracted an avalanche of comfort and encouragement from the public for his courage to come in the open, especially as he offered advice that he has been pursuaded and almost conclusively that papaya is the treatment for…

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By Maureen Murotho, MANA Blantyre District Health Cluster has warned its residents that some countries have been hit by second waves of COVID-19 and as such it will be good for people to continuously protect themselves until the pandemic comes to an end by continuing practicing safe measures. Speaking during a Health Cluster meeting on Friday, acting District Medical Officer Fatsani Zaziwe said due to the decrease of COVID-19 cases in the country, people have started relaxing which could…

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By Stanley Nkhondoyachepa, MANA Fire has destroyed a good number of medical supplies including some drugs that were saved but were rendered useless due to exposure to intense heat. According to the hospital’s spokesperson, Garry Chilinga, the fire — whose cause has not been established — started at around 5am on Friday and when in-patient guardians saw smoke billowing from the facility, alerted medical staff and helped put off the fire using water fetched in buckets. He said services…

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