Category: Health

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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  By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi currently does not have a heart surgery specialist (cardiothoracic) since the only one the country had, Dr. Kayambo, based in Lilongwe retired. This has come to the fore following the good news of a successful lifesaving heart surgery of a Malawian child, Lemos Tsatawe, which was carried out at the Wolfson Medical Center in Israel with help of volunteer medical team members of Save a Child’s Heart. Lemos was flown to Israel in August…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira Malawian child, Lemos Tsatawe has flown back from Israel and is at to his home village at Cape Maclear in Mangochi after he had just had a life-saving heart surgery on September 2 at the Wolfson Medical Center by the volunteer medical team members of Save a Child’s Heart, in Israel. According to a press statement from Save a Child’s Heart, Malawi is the 62nd country as a member of the Israeli NGO, that is…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Mangochi District Hospital’s Dr. Jeffrey Jooma has made history by becoming the first Malawian Nuclear Medicine, the medical imaging speciality which involves using radioactive substances (radiopharmaceuticals) and special imaging equipment in the diagnosis, staging and treatment of various cancerous and non-cancerous diseases.  He attained this rare qualification at the college of nuclear physicians (FCNP) of South Africa, where he is still there pursuing a Master’s in Medicine with the university of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, graduating…

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