Month: March 2016 Posts

Malawi to use drones to reduce child deaths

Mar 16, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 59 &

Government has partnered United Nations children’s fund (Unicef) to test the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones) in HIV testing of infants. Infants who have HIV positive mothers need to be tested early… ...

Over 3 hundred trained nurses remain jobless

Mar 16, 2016 Victoria Milanzi 24 &

National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives (NONM) has expressed dissatisfaction with the way government is handling the issue of deploying 339 nurses who were told to stop working last year. For a long time there… ...

Parliament approves additional funding to health sector

Mar 11, 2016 Victoria Milanzi 17 &

The Malawi Parliament has allocated an additional 5 billion Kwacha to the ministry of health, a moved described as good by the ministry. Minister responsible Peter Kumpalume said he is happy to know that the… ...

World class nursing school to be built in Malawi

Mar 10, 2016 Mphatso Khutcha Richard 73 &

Malawi will in December 2017 have its ever first ever state of the art 270-bed capacity university teaching hospital which is expected to reduce number of referrals sent outside the country. According to director of… ...

Man in custody for selling hospital drugs

Mar 10, 2016 Martha Chikoti 23 &

Police in Ntcheu district are keeping in custody Raymond Jothan, 42, for selling drugs stolen from public hospitals. Southern Region Police assistant spokesperson Peter Mchiza said Jothan has been operating the business of selling drugs… ...

Amnesty tells Malawi to protect albinos

Mar 05, 2016 Macmillan Mhone 37 &

Human rights group, Amnesty International, has ordered the Malawi government to protect people with albinism in the country. The group made the directive in reaction to a sickening discovery of the severed head of a… ...

Manerela in trouble over gratuity

Mar 02, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 6 &

It never rains but pours for the once vibrant organization, Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with HIV (Manelera), as the organization has been taken to court over money. The family of former executive director… ...