TOTAL MALAWI BOSS ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Published on September 26, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
An office romance gone sour has landed a Business Development Manager at Total Malawi in the intensive care unit after […]
Tag: Hospital
Govt Buys Drugs to Avert Health Crisis
Published on September 12, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
Blantyre — The Malawi government has procured a three to four months supply of essential drugs and medical supplies to […]
Hospitals Struggle Amid Water Shortage in Malawi
Published on August 18, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
Two battered plastic chairs bar entry to the toilets at the Bangwe Township Clinic in Blantyre. The toilets are not […]
DFID Support Withdraw Could Worsen Health Workers’ Shortage in Malawi
Published on June 28, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
The problem of health workers has reached “a global crisis point”. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that the world is […]
Maternal death stalks Malawi’s rural poor
Published on June 27, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
SALIMA, Malawi – She arrived wrapped in a pink blanket, dead. A Toyota pick-up pulled up to the entrance of […]
High rates of burnout among maternal health staff at a referral hospital in Malawi: A cross-sectional study
Published on June 24, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
Viva Combs Thorsen,1 Andra L Teten Tharp,2 and Tarek Meguid3 1Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 2Menninger […]
All hands on deck to turn historic ship into floating clinic
Published on June 21, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
(CNN) — An ambitious project to turn Malawi’s oldest ship into a floating clinic could save thousands of lives around […]
Malaria kills 8,006 people
Published on June 8, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
WRITTEN BY THERESA CHAPULAPULA Malaria continues to kill thousands of people annually with the latest report indicating that last year […]
UK aid cuts hit health care
Published on June 7, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
BLANTYRE, 6 June 2011 (IRIN) – After several years of fragile gains, Malawi’s healthcare sector is running into trouble, with […]
Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) in Malawi
Published on June 1, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
Please find below an interesting link that was shared which describes the role of Health Surveillance assistants in Malawi. It […]
Rural Areas Still Struggle to Access Medicines
Published on May 25, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
By Charles Mpaka BLANTYRE, May 25, 2011 (IPS) – In the shade of a leafy mango tree at the rural […]
Asking God about the date you will die: HIV testing as a zone of uncertainty in rural Malawi
Published on May 17, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
Amy Kaler1 and Susan Watkins2 1University of Alberta. Email: akaler@ualberta.ca 2University of Pennsylvania/UCLA. Email: swatkins@ccpr.ucla.edu Abstract Testing for HIV is […]
New farming practices grow healthier children
Published on April 30, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI
Ten years ago Joyce Mhoni, head of the Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit at Ekwendeni Hospital in the Mzimba district of northern […]