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Government has commended Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) for reducing mental health prevalence and new incidences, as well as scaling up availability of antipsychotic drugs over the years.
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Tendai Rupapa in BULAWAYO Firsty Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was yesterday screened for cervical and breast cancer at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) as a way of motivating women to do the same as the country intensifies the fight against the silent killer.
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Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau— THE number of suspected cholera cases has risen to 22 in Chegutu forcing Government and its partners to move in to manage the outbreak by setting up a treatment camp in the town. Four people have so far died of cholera in Chegutu. At least nine people are currently admitted and in […]
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Paidamoyo Chipunza Senior Health Reporter Government has slashed the price of blood in Government health institutions to $50 a pint with effect from today, following the injection of a $4,2 million subsidy from the Health Levy, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has said.
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Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged Zimbabweans to unite, bury their differences and work towards the development of the nation as national hero Dr Timothy Stamps did.
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Nyemudzai Kakore Herald Correspondent— Over 30 cases of typhoid were confirmed in Harare’s oldest suburb of Mbare as of yesterday, while three patients were still admitted at Beatrice Road Infectious Hospital after the setting up of a 24-hour clinic to manage a typhoid outbreak, Health Services director Dr Prosper Chonzi said. Addressing a press conference in the […]
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Herald Reporter— SEVENTEEN cases of typhoid have been confirmed at Matapi Flats in Mbare and authorities have since set up a 24-hour clinic to manage patients. The city’s director for health services, Dr Prosper Chonzi, told ZBC News yesterday that 12 patients have since been transferred to Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospitals (BRIDH).
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Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau Chegutu District has managed to initiate nearly 20 000 patients on anti-retroviral treatment (ART), significantly reducing the waiting list of people who need the HIV drugs. This comes as the ART programme has been decentralised to all health institutions in the district. In a speech read on his behalf by acting Chegutu district administrator, […]
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Herald Reporter Government has assured the nation that the country has enough stocks of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), with the available supplies enough to last the next 10 months. Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa allayed fears that Zimbabwe might run out of the life-prolonging drugs last Friday after touring the construction site of a […]
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Ray Bande Manicaland Bureau Zimbabwe has surpassed the one million mark of people under anti-retroviral therapy, amid revelations by Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa that the country has enough drugs to meet the demand. Dr Parirenyatwa said this during a Press conference at Montclair Hotel in Nyanga on the sidelines of the advocacy meeting […]
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From Kudakwashe Bwititi in PRETORIA Zimbabwe and South Africa yesterday agreed to immediately start measures to operationalise the Beitbridge One-Stop Border-Post (OSBP) and signed five cooperation agreements as relations between the neighbours reached new heights. As part of the firm undertaking to operationalise the OSBP, President Mugabe and President Jacob Zuma directed their ministers and officials […]
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Nqobile Tshili Bulawayo Bureau Government is set to recruit over 100 specialist doctors from Cuba to be deployed at the country’s referral and provincial hospitals. In a video posted on the Ministry of Health and Child Care Twitter account last Friday, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa said the country has a serious shortage […]
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Conrad Mwanawashe Business Reporter STAKEHOLDERS in the agro-processing sector are mobilising funds for timeous payments for locally produced wheat.
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Conrad Mwanawashe Court Reporter— THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has filed an application at the High Court seeking to block Government from implementing mandatory food fortification.
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Ish Mafundikwa Correspondent The Zimbabwe National Cervical Cancer Control and Prevention Strategy (ZCCCPS) (2017-2020) was launched by Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr David Parirenyatwa, at the Gweru Provincial Hospital recently.
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