Health & Fitness

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said government will enforce stiffer penalties for child abusers. This comes at a time the nation has witnessed an upsurge in child abuse cases. Recently a nine-year-old girl from Tsholotsho gave birth and became the second youngest mother in the world. Speaking during United Nations …

The mother of a nine-year-old girl who is 27 weeks pregnant, Chipo Chisora aged 30 (not her real name) has lived a life of agony. After falling prey to rapists at an early age, Chipo has lived to see her daughter go through the same ordeal. Her nine-year-old daughter (name …

Bindura BureauIn what appears to be a new wave of bizarre sexual abuse upon the girl child, another nine-year-old girl has been confirmed pregnant in Mashonaland Central. This comes barely 72 hours after a Tsholotsho girl of the same age became the country’s youngest mother after being raped. She gave …

Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has been urged to investigate corruption and ill-treatment of patients at the country’s hospitals. Raising a matter of national interest in the National Assembly last Thursday, Makokoba MP James Sithole (CCC) demanded that Chiwenga issues a ministerial statement on Zimbabwe’s decaying health delivery system …

A research study has ranked the main factors which hinder youths who abuse crystal meth from accessing treatment services, with stigma and privacy issues the most common.  Crystal meth is a strong and highly addictive illicit drug which gives a hallucinatory effect to users. As consumption of the dangerous drug …

In what could be the first in the country, a nine-year-old girl is admitted to the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) as she is 33 weeks pregnant and is expected to give birth at the institution. This comes a few weeks after a 13-year-old girl from Mkhosana Township in Victoria Falls …

Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health minister, has revealed that hospitals were this year starved of medicines by Treasury after it only released $5 billion of the Health ministry’s $15 billion allocation. This resulted in the ministry only managing to procure 14% of the required medicines for hospitals this …

Zimbabwe will conduct two rounds of oral polio vaccination (OPV) throughout the country to protect children below the age of five years following an outbreak of the disease in neighbouring countries, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said Monday. “There is an outbreak of polio disease in neighbouring countries …

About 93% of Zimbabweans have no access to health insurance due to high poverty levels in the country, while only 7% can afford private health services. This came out during a stakeholder engagement meeting on revitalising primary health care in the country to promote universal health coverage which was hosted …

Mashonaland Central has Zimbabwe’s highest general fertility rates according to collected data during the 2022 Population and Housing Census. This was revealed during Tuesday’s post-Cabinet media briefing. Fertility statistics released revealed that the province had 137 live births per 1 000 women while Bulawayo had the lowest general fertility rate …