Health

SMOKING: MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND health impact of tobacco farming Wake up people, lets  stop poisoning society for the sake of wealth.   2019 is a new year and the world is moving towards improved health for all and sustainable practices. Zimbabwe has a major role to play, in encouraging people to stop smoking.Zimbabweans and the world at large, fail to take stock of the environmental and health problems of tobacco farming to the farming communities…

The crisis at the country’s public hospitals is worsening as nurses have further cut the days they will be reporting for duty at State hospitals from three to two days a week citing the biting economic conditions. This comes after the nurses had earlier resorted to reporting for duty for three days a week due to fuel shortages, as well as their outstanding working conditions demands. In the meantime, the doctors and clinical radiologists have…

HARARE – In the latest standoff between the government and striking junior doctors, senior medical personnel have now joined the industrial action by their juniors – leading to the suspension of major procedures at public health institutions across the country.   This follows the government’s ill-advised recent decision to suspend 530 junior doctors over their industrial action which was declared illegal by the Labour Court.   In a statement over the Christmas holiday, the Zimbabwe…

‘Harare residents should brace for a dry festive season or rely on rain water, as council has run out of water purification chemicals’-Mayor Herbert Gomba   Mayor Herbert Gomba yesterday gave a grim picture of water supply in the capital as the festive season approaches, with supplies already having declined significantly.     Harare residents should brace for a dry festive season or rely on rain water, as council has run out of water purification…