Health

ZIMBABWE | Gweru Hospital is providing a vital lifeline to patients in the Midlands province with a free orthopaedic surgery camp running this week. Over 30 patients have already benefitted from the camp, which started on Monday, showcasing the combined efforts of improved healthcare services and a streamlined testing system. With access to skilled medical […]

Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare has resumed offering free open-heart surgeries, aiming to address the significant backlog of patients in need of treatment. Led by veteran cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Dr. Wilfred Muteweye, the team has already performed open-heart surgeries on nine patients in the first quarter of this year. They are optimistic about […]

Richard Slayman, the first patient to receive a genetically edited kidney from a pig, has tragically passed away nearly two months following the milestone surgery. His demise, confirmed by both his family and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, marks a poignant moment in the field of xenotransplantation. Slayman, aged 62, etched his name in medical […]

January Disease, also known as Theileriosis, is a cattle ailment transmitted by ticks. Since the start of the year, farmers in Matabeleland South have lost a staggering 11,200 cattle. Desperate to salvage their dwindling assets, these farmers have forged an alliance with a group colloquially referred to as the ‘men who come in trucks’. These […]

Zimbabwe has achieved and surpassed the global target on HIV testing, treatment and viral suppression, three years ahead of the set time, state news agency New Ziana reported on Wednesday. The Joint UN Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) aims for HIV testing, treatment and viral suppression rates to be 95% by 2025. Of all the HIV-positive […]

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has launched a new COVID-19 vaccination campaign that includes jabbing children aged 12 and above to rescue a drive faltering due to vaccine hesitancy and complacency. This week schools in the southern African country have become vaccination zones with children in school uniforms lining up to get the injections. Many […]

Italy’s coronavirus outbreak spread south on Tuesday to Tuscany and Sicily, as the civil protection agency reported a surge in the number of infected people and the death toll rose to 10. Officials reported 322 confirmed cases of the virus, 100 more than a day earlier. In a worrying development, they said some of the […]

 The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has now spread to Uganda, experts said as a WHO advisory panel met on Friday. Congo’s epidemic is the second worst worldwide since West Africa’s Ebola outbreak in 2014-16, with […]

On Wednesday President Emmerson Mnangagwa said his government was working on replacing the old sewer infrastructure installed by the Rhodesian regime, which was constantly bursting in Harare, leading to the outbreak of waterborne diseases such as the deadly cholera epidemic. He said this after touring the worst affected high-density suburb, Glen View and a hospital […]

Former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s health is reported to be deteriorating very fast amid reports that doctors are giving her a little chance of survival. Sources close to her indicate to media that her battle with an appendectomy operation in 2015 in Singapore is failing and that it could be a matter of time before […]