Health & Fitness

Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni on Monday accused Zanu PF of promoting illegal vending in the city, which was leading to rampant littering. Mguni spoke as the city launched ‘Spring Cleaning Week’ which will see the local authority clear rubbish which has piled up at seven locations in the city centre. …

Bindura Bureau Hospitals in Mashonaland Central received a shot in arm after the Ministry of Health and Child Care availed and handed over four state-of-the-art Toyota Land Cruiser ambulances last Thursday. The ambulances were unveiled by Mashonaland Central Minister of State and Devolution, Senator Monica Mavhunga in Bindura. Minister Monica …

Community Working Group on Health (CWGH), a pressure group that has been assisting the measles-hit province of Manicaland, has bemoaned the government’s lack of transparency in fighting the disease. The government declared the outbreak on 11 August 2022 after 80 children succumbed to the disease in Mutasa. Measles is a …

Chitungwiza Bureau A fast-growing non-profit organisation centred on fighting against drug and substance abuse among youths has empowered school going teens of Chitungwiza with educational material prior to school opening tomorrow. The event organized as a back-to-school programme Saturday, saw Chitungwiza-based Teen Rescue Mission (TRM) donating an assortment of textbooks …

Prisons in Zimbabwe are failing to meet the dietary scale for children staying with their incarcerated mothers contrary to the prison policy and procedures, a report compiled by a Senate Thematic Committee on Gender and Development revealed. In some cases, prison officers made some contributions to assist the children with …

UNITED Kingdom based conservationist Nick Holmes will be going into the last lap of his 800+km Walk4life journey next week on September 4 as he approaches the Zambian side of the border. The journey which started, on World Ranger Day, at the Kariba dam wall on July 31 last month …

Some Harare suburbs have gone for almost a month with no running water, raising fears of a health crisis in a city once battered by a cholera disaster that killed thousands. Mayor Jacob Mafume, in past comments over the city’s perennial water woes, revealed the local authority was battling acute …

Government has suspended the mandatory wearing of face masks in open public spaces after the country has registered a continuous decline in new Covid-19 infections. The easing of the Covid-19 restriction, which takes immediate effect, was announced at a post-cabinet media briefing in Harare on Tuesday by Information Minister Monica …

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was admitted to a hospital in Harare on Thursday for what sources described as a “long-planned procedure”. The 65-year-old retired army general arrived at the Trauma Centre in Borrowdale just before 3PM in a six-vehicle convoy flashing blue lights, with sirens turned off. Chiwenga walked into …

HEALTH experts have warned government to be on high alert following the recent World Health Organisation (WHO) announcement of heightened cases of monkeypox globally as the local public health system is in intensive care. Monkeypox is an infection caused by a virus in the same family as the smallpox virus. …