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United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) Nurses Shifts Reduced To Three A Week Over Wage Delay

Posted on July 1, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

SOME hospitals have reduced working days for nurses from five days to three to cushion the health workers from transport costs following the Government’s postponement of June salary payment dates for civil servants. The Government shifted pay dates for most civil servants to this month. Nurses at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) told The Chronicle that authorities announced on Wednesday that they had increased shift hours and reduced working days to cut their transport costs…

UK To Erect Memorial Statue, Of Jamaican Born, Black Nurse , Mary Seacole, (1805 – 1881),

Posted on June 28, 2016June 28, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

This will also be significant to all people as it offers recognition of the importance of the all important nursing profession. A memorial statue, in honour of the Jamaican-born Black nurse , Mary Seacole, (1805 – 1881), of great courage and compassion will be unveiled in the grounds of St. Thomas’s hospital , located directly opposite to the Houses of Parliament in UK on Thursday 30 June. Mary Seacole’s statue unveiling, is a great moment in British history as, after, 12 years of…

‘Tsvangirai Reveals, He Is Suffering From Colon Cancer, And Hospitalised In South Africa For Treatment’

Posted on June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Bedridden MDC T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has finally disclosed that he is suffering from cancer of the colon and is in South Africa to receive treatment for his ailment. Mr Tsvangirai disclosed his ailment this afternoon. “On the 8th of May 2016My Zimbabwean doctors referred me to South Africa, where a further diagnosis revealed that Im suffering from cancer of the colon”, he said. “Following the diagnosis last month, I underwent an operation…

’14 Emakhandeni High School Pupils , Rushed For HIV Tests After Pupil (16), Deliberately Pricked Them With A Needle’

Posted on June 27, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

14 pupils at Emakhandeni Secondary School in Bulawayo were rushed for HIV tests after a boy at the school went around pricking them with a needle. Panicky parents made a report at Luveve Police Station after the pupil’s parents refused to meet them over the issue. A court last week heard how the Form Four pupil (16), who cannot be named for ethical reasons, hid the needle between his fingers and pierced other pupils’ hands…

Unlicenced Beitbridge Police Detective Fatally Knocks Down Two Pedestrians With His Car

Posted on June 23, 2016June 23, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

An unlicensed police detective based in Beitbridge has been charged with culpable homicide for fatally knocking down two men on Wednesday evening with his Subaru car. Sources close to the investigations said Darlington Mujabuki hit the pedestrians near the former RedStar wholesale complex at around 5pm. The cop alleged ploughed into the now deceased who were a few metres away from the road. The detective has another pending case at the courts involving a R30 bribery. Meanwhile…

Bulawayo Man Stabs Wife, Tries To Suck Her Blood During Prayer And Attacks Two Neighbours

Posted on June 22, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

A BULAWAYO man allegedly started shouting profanities during a prayer session, stabbed his wife and sucked her blood before attacking two neighbours with a shovel. Lovemore Khumalo, 42, a security guard reportedly left his neighbours unconscious, after the vicious attack. He appeared before regional magistrate Mrs Sibongile Msipa-Marondedze facing two counts of attempted murder. The magistrate remanded Khumalo to today saying he should appear at West Commonage Magistrate Courts, pending psychiatric examination. Khumalo’s wife —…

A Plumtree Mpoengs Man, Locked 2 Minors, Neighbors kids And Burnt Down Hut In Dispute With Their Dad

Posted on June 17, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

MAN ex-jailbird from Plumtree allegedly locked his neighbour’s two children in a kitchen hut before torching the room to fix their father with whom he had a long standing grudge, a magistrate heard. Khulumani Ndebele (32) of Mpoengs was arrested after shoeprints at the scene led villagers to his homestead. The two juveniles escaped unhurt after their father, Mr Cain Ndlovu, heard them screaming and woke up. He found the hut in which his children…

From 1st July, All Current Medical Aid Patients Unable To Pay, Will Be Referred To Public Health Institutions

Posted on June 15, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

All patients currently receiving treatment from private doctors using medical aid and are unable to pay cash will be referred to public health institutions come July 1 2016, the Zimbabwe Medical Association has said. Speaking at a press conference held in Harare today, ZiMA president Dr Agnes Mahomva said given the current cash crisis, doctors had been advised to install point of sale payment gadgets in their practices. Dr Mahomva said these strategies were meant…

7 Dynamos Fans Dead & 16 Injured After Tyre And Overturning On Harare Bulawayo Road At Battlefields

Posted on June 11, 2016June 11, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Yet again, sadly, in an all too familiar scene in Zimbabwe of imported vehicles bursting tyres and crashing, more lives have been lost on the roads. A total of Seven Dynamos supporters died on the spot while 16 others were injured in a horrific accident at the 173-kilometre peg along the Harare/Bulawayo highway. The supporters were travelling, reportedly in an Iveco minibus when their vehicle burst a tyre , causing the driver to lose control as the…

‘Dilemma As Commissioner-General (ZPCS) Calls For Prisoners To Be Issued Condoms, In Defiance To Mugabe’s Homophobic Stance’

Posted on June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

THE Commissioner-General of Prisons and Correctional Services of Zimbabwe, Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi, has called for the distribution of condoms among inmates in prisons and compulsory HIV/Aids testing to curb the spread of the virus. Rtd Maj Gen Zimondi said an attempt was made to give condoms to prisoners when the Prisons and Correctional Services carried out a survey around the country’s prisons but there was a lot of resistance as some inmates queried…

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