By Françios Kwatani Public health expert Dorothy Ngoma has commended the opening of the first ever stroke unit at Queen…
Authorities worried with smartphone use by nurses on duty
An appeal has gone out to nurses in the country to desist from checking social media accounts and chatting with…
Medical Council of Malawi sleeping on job
By Françios Kwatani Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) has called for medical regulatory bodies to be proactive in auditing and…
WHO calls for regulation of alcohol advertising
A new report by the World Health Organization has called on countries to address the regulation gap that is in…
Malawi registers 17 new cholera cases
Malawi has registered 17 new cholera cases, bringing the cumulative tally to 160 cases including six deaths, the Ministry of…
Health analyst calls for awareness on NCDs
By Françios Kwatani Renowned health rights activist George Jobe has called on government to adequately invest in raising awareness on…
Hand hygiene an effective way to prevent infections
Ministry of Health has emphasized the need for people to maintain hand hygiene in order to prevent infections. Speaking to…
Ministry describes second round of Polio vaccine as a success
Ministry of health says it is still administering the Polio vaccine to children under the age of five though the…
Stepping up war against maternal deaths in Zomba
By Esnart Chingwalu There is hope that infant and maternal deaths will drop in Zomba following interventions by Maternity Worldwide…
World malaria day, a call for novel tools to fight the disease
An epidemiologist and researcher at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Dr Donnie Mategula has implored on researchers to come up…
Over 1 million children protected by malaria vaccine
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says over 1 million children in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya have been protected by the…
1 million Malawians fully vaccinated against COVID-19
About one million people in Malawi are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a year after government rolled out the vaccine campaign…