Health workers Archives

HSAs asks govt to provide them with transportation

Aug 28, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) have asked government to consider providing them with transportation to address the challenge of walking long distances during their daily operations in the communities they were assigned to work. This was… ...

Zomba DHO says the elderly deserve special medical care

Aug 08, 2022 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Zomba District Council's Director of Health and Social Services, Dr. Alexander Chijuwa, has called on health workers to give elderly persons special attention to ensure they receive quality care and treatment. Dr. Chijuwa made the… ...

Govt faulted for blocking unemployed nurses from seeking jobs in USA and Saudi Arabia

Aug 03, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Unemployed nurses and midwives have demanded an explanation from Malawi Government over its decision to block National Organization of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi (NONM) from sending jobless nurses and midwives to United States and… ...

Zomba DHO bemoans polio vaccine resistance by parents in urban areas

Jul 31, 2022 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Zomba District Health Office (DHO) says parents in low density areas and in houses surrounded by brick fences refuse to open gates to let health workers give oral polio vaccine to their children. To this… ...

Man arrested for illegal possession of medical equipment in Blantyre

Jul 28, 2022 Archangel Nzangaya 1 &

Police in Blantyre have arrested a 41-year-old man for illegal possession of medical equipment, including a laboratory coat labelled QECH (Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital). This is according to Blantyre police deputy public relations officer, Sergeant… ...

Opinion: Malawi nurses’ plan to find work abroad should not be disrupted

Jul 12, 2022 Contributor* 0 &

By Lucious C. Gerrald Nursing and Midwifery profession was discovered and founded by Florence Nightingale, an upper class British woman who captured the public imagination when she led a group of female nurses to the… ...

Rumphi district achieves 91% TB treatment rate

Jul 04, 2022 Mike Kalumbi 0 &

Rumphi District is among the districts that are doing very well in the fight against Tuberculosis. The district achieved 91% treatment success rate in the year 2021. Speaking to Malawi24, Rumphi TB officer Umar Mwamadi… ...