Category: Health

By Duncan Mlanjira Unemployed doctors, nurse-midwives, clinicians concerned citizens across Malawi are planning to go on a demonstration march on  November 29  to deliver a petition through City and District councils. A statement issued on November 23 by the group led by Health Rights Activist, Donald Kanjere Zgambo and Donex Tchaka Mumba, National Representative for concerned unemployed health professionals, demonstrations will be followed by a week of picketing of staff against working in public hospitals. They also plan to…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira Muslim Youth United has adopted neurosurgical and orthopaedic wards at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital where they donated a bale of blankets and that every week they will be expected to visit the wards to assess their needs. This was has announced at Mpingwe Sports Club on Sunday where the grouping also donated physiotherapy equipment to Kachere Rehabilitation Centre, MACOHA and FEDOMA in Blantyre that included 120 wheelchairs, 20 walkers and 100 walking sticks. The grouping…

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By Duncan Mlanjira The Ministry of Health (MoH) is today (November 22) commemorating the World Prematurity Day under the global theme ‘Born too soon; Providing the Right Care; at the Right Time and in the Right Place’. Secretary for Health and Population, Dr. Dan Namarika, says in a press statement that the theme resonates well with the global report on ‘Survive and Thrive; transforming care for every small and sick newborn’ which was launched at the World Health Assembly…

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By Laureen Banda, MANA Group Village Headman Cheyema has asked Karonga District Council to manage Katili waste disposal site, saying it has turned into health hazard to people.  The local leader made the call this week when officials from Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRCC) visited the area on health assessment. “We are very worried with what is happening here. Garbage is being disposed just anyhow, outside the fence thereby compromising hygiene for the people living around here….

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By Duncan Mlanjira Netherland NGO, Help for Malawi, has handed over surgical equipment worth K400 million to be used in testing sugar and BP levels as well as dental services for Kasungu District Hospitals as well as all its affiliate health centers. Help For Malawi has been in the country for the past seven years and its Board chairperson, Marleen Luiten said they were very happy to be associated with helping Malawi. She said her organization started helping the…

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By Joseph Mkandawire, MANA Traditional Authority Kampingo Sibande of Mzimba District has applauded Malawi Red Cross Society for improving sanitation status in his area through the Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) interventions. The WASH project in T/A Kampingo Sibande’s area has contributed to reduction of communicable diseases such as diarrhea. “Over 90 percent of households now have sanitation facilities such as latrines. We are a community that suffered from cholera before,” the T/A said. He commended fellow traditional leaders…

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By Duncan Mlanjira  An extensive global study by International Labour Organisation, WaterAid, World Bank and World Health Organization reveals that millions of sanitation workers in the developing world are forced to work in conditions that endanger their health and lives. The study was unveiled during the commemoration of World Toilet Day under the theme ‘Leaving No One Behind’, which says despite providing an essential public service, these workers are often the most marginalised, poor and discriminated against by members…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira A report from the Middle East indicates that Malawi tops the list of 10 countries with the highest rates of premature births per 100 live births. This was disclosed during the commemoration of World Prematurity Day in Muscat, Oman on Thursday and confirmed by Malawi’s Dr. Grace Chiudzu, a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology. The report done by Middle East journalist, Dr. Ahmed Mohiuddin Siddiqui, says Malawi is rated at 18.1 preterm births per 100…

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  By Moses Nyirenda, MANA Mchinji District Council has applauded international nongovernmental organization, known as Our Aim Foundation, for promoting quality health services in the district. The Council’s Director of Health and Social Services, Dr Juliana Kanyengambeta said the foundation has assisted in adopting measures aimed at improving quality health services which include the construction of a health clinic. “Our Aim Foundation has done a commendable work in promoting healthcare among people in Mchinji.  “The foundation has constructed a…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira Dr. Tiwonge Elisa Khonje Phiri has just earned the speciality as an Adult Neurologist in Malawi obtained at Fellowship in Neurology at the University of Stellenbosch.  She was trained at Tygeberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa and she joins Dr Macpherson Mallewa, who is the vice-principal at the College of Medicine in Blantyre as a Paediatric Neurologist. The doctor, who did her undergraduate medical training at College of Medicine where she obtained her Bachelor…

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