By Idah Mhetu PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has appealed to all striking nurses to return to work amid a spike in Covid-19 cases and deaths in the country. Addressing the media during a post cabinet briefing on Wednesday, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Sithembiso Nyoni said all the nursing personnel on strike should return to
By Idah Mhetu GOVERNMENT has warned all public and private hospitals refusing to admit patients who present without Covid-19 test results. In a statement, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said concerned health facilities were contravening the Public Health Act. Mutsvangwa said the National Taskforce has directed that all hospitals will admit patients without the pre-requirement of
By Ndatenda Njanike ATLEAST 12 bodies lie unclaimed at Marondera General Hospital and are now reaching an advanced state of decomposition due to malfunctioning of mortuary refrigerators. The hospital has a carrying capacity of 27 bodies and only six refrigerators are fully functional while 21 are malfunctioning. Authorities are now considering pauper’s burial for the
By Robert Tapfumaneyi THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking more international donor support to prevent millions of Zimbabweans from plunging deeper into hunger. The global Covid-19 pandemic, which has not spared Zimbabwe, has aggravated an already severe hunger crisis in the country. On Thursday, the WFP appealed for an additional US$250 million
By Bulawayo Correspondent CASES of gender-based violence have increased across the country since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown measures in March this year, rising by 70% in the last four months. According to the Musasa Project, a total of 2 768 cases related to violence against women and girls have been recorded in Bulawayo
AP CARS have become mobile markets in Zimbabwe where enterprising residents are selling goods from their vehicles to cope with economic hardships caused by the coronavirus. With their car doors and trunks wide open by the side of busy roads, eager sellers display a colorful array of goods in Harare, the capital city. In the
By Bulawayo Correspondent AS the spread of Covid-19 increases in Zimbabwe, some homeowners in Bulawayo have reportedly started evictions on some health workers renting their properties for fear they will expose them to Covid-19. The most affected tenants are health workers at Mpilo Hospital and the United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) where several nurses recently tested
BBC A 44-year-old woman in Zimbabwe, Tendayi Gwata, is battling to avoid a mastectomy after her breast cancer treatment abruptly ended when the only radiotherapy machine in the capital, Harare, stopped working. Gwata, a marketing consultant, had already lost all her hair during chemotherapy. Then she was told that because the machine had broken down,
By Alois Vinga EUROPEAN donor group, Health Development Fund (HDF) has handed over 65 Ultrasound Scan (USS) machines for distribution to Zimbabwean hospitals. HDF is managed by UNICEF with key donors being the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, European Union and GAVI. HDF pooled resources which have seen state of the art USS machines being handed
Matabeleland North Correspondent A 65-year-old Dete man decided to take his life through hanging at a family graveyard after claiming he was being abused by his wife. According to a report filed by his nephew, one Raphael Nyoni, Never Sibanda hanged himself on Sunday night. His body was found on Monday hanging from a tree
By Staff Reporter HUNDREDS of Harare vendors have been fleeced US$10 each by space barons on fake promises they would be allocated vending stalls ahead of the opening of the popular Mupedzanhamo flea market in Mbare this week. Also set to reopen this week is the Glen View 8 Complex. All informal trading markets have
Staff Reporter HEALTH workers in the country’s public hospitals Monday declared a complete shutdown of the sector after government continued to pay a deaf ear to their plight. Zimbabwe nurses downed tools some two weeks in protest over low wages and poor working conditions. They have further rejected government’s 50% salary hike coupled with US$75
By Andra Stevens and Barbara Dunlap-Berg TWO college students are building an international partnership that they hope will help to fill major gaps in the delivery of primary health care to millions of people on the continent of Africa. Munyaradzi Chakonda, a freshman business management major at Africa University, and Jon Schulder, a sophomore
By Bulawayo Correspondent BULAWAYO residents are contemplating suing their city council for allegedly causing the death of 12 people and related illnesses to more than 1 500 Luveve residents through pumping out contaminated water to households. Tests done at private laboratories to ascertain the causes of the deaths and illness have been linked to symptoms
By Ndatenda Njanike RAMPANT parcelling out of land by politicians as an election campaign gimmick or to remain in office, has been responsible for wetlands destruction in Epworth. The vice has also been linked to recurrent water shortages in the sprawling Harare suburb. Corruption and abuse of power are also among the factors leading to
By Idah Mhetu POPULAR traditional healer Sekuru Banda has come to the rescue of local comedian Charles “Marabha” Merisi for whom he is building a six-roomed house in the ailing street theatre legend’s Epworth neighbourhood. Construction started this weekend with the wealthy traditional healer saying it was always his wish to help those in need.
By Mbekezeli Ncube RESIDENTS of Bulawayo’s Gwabalanda suburb have appealed to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and police to intervene after sand poachers have invaded the area to extract truckloads of the resource while causing massive land degradation in the area. There are also fears the sand poachers will soon encroach onto the nearby Luveve
By Bulawayo Correspondent ANGRY residents in Bulawayo’s Luveve high-density suburb Thursday night dumped mock coffins at the city’s housing department offices in protest over the rise in diarrhoea related deaths in the suburb. Contaminated water supplied by the city council has been blamed for the deaths. A total of 218 cases of diarrhoea have been
By Mbekezeli Ncube IN response to severe food shortages at Entembeni Old People’s Home, the Hope for a Child In Christ (HOCIC) has donated food hampers and other stuff at the Luveve-based home in Bulawayo. HOCIC represents over 50 faith based organisations that focus on orphans, vulnerable children, youths and underprivileged members of society. It
By Mbekezeli Ncube THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) has confirmed the successful installation of 20 boreholes at the Nyamandlovu Aquifer in what is expected to see water supplies in Bulawayo improve by seven megalitres (seven million litres). The country’s second largest city has over the past months been hit by acute water shortages with
