Month: October 2016 Posts

Malawi women dying due to breast cancer, calls for self-test resurface

Oct 25, 2016 Victoria Milanzi 8 &

Pink Pink Foundation has stressed the need for Malawian women to learn how to screen themselves for breast cancer in order to prevent deaths caused by the disease.  This was said during a breast cancer… ...

Revealed: Malawi Government dumping poor patients seeking treatment abroad

Sep 28, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 44 &

Local media reports have put to light claims that Malawi government is failing to send abroad poor patients in need of special treatment in international hospitals. Investigations on the matter have disclosed that poor patients… ...

The uncoordinated orchestra – Malawi’s circumcision conundrum

May 12, 2016 Collins Mtika 1 &

For 33 years now, Reverend Levi Nyondo, as God’s anointed ‘shepherd,’ has watched HIV/AIDS decimate his ‘sheep.’ Although his homilies have urged sexual abstinence and fidelity, which should slow spread of the disease, he grudgingly admits… ...

Hospital user fees: adults to pay over K1000

May 05, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 472 &

Malawians, many of whom live on less than a dollar a day, will now have to pay more than K1,000 every time they access medical services at public hospitals. According to reports reaching Malawi24, a… ...

Finally: Malawi to introduce user fees in hospitals

May 05, 2016 Timothy Kachedwa 538 &

Authorities in the health sector says they have finalized the policy that will let them introduce user fees in public hospitals. Speaking in an interview, minister of health Dr Peter Kumpalume confirmed that the policy has… ...

Queens Central Hospital for sale! Government to privatise public hospitals

Dec 08, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 1,909 &

...Kamuzu Central Hospital put on auction Malawi government has set up plans to privatise all public hospitals, Malawi24 can reveal. President Peter Mutharika made the revelation that his administration will soon start auctioning public hospitals into private… ...