By Tatenda Chimbwanda To be a nurse and a midwife means to be of service no matter the circumstances. Nurses and midwives in Zimbabwe are not just health workers, they are mothers, sisters and leaders in their commun…
Lire la suiteBy Tatenda Chimbwanda Chimanimani, Zimbabwe - “The horrors of what happened on the evening of March 2019 still linger in my memories. I will rather not get into the emotional trauma l went through. l lost my house, re…
Lire la suiteBy Tatenda Chimbwanda Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - The first day Princess Zengeya and Vongai Mafunga, where seconded as COVID-19 front liner care givers, they were extremely frightened about their safety, recalls Nomazulu Dlo…
Lire la suiteTHE UWAVERING BENEFITS OF BREASTFEEDING – IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 Joint statement by Ministry of Health and Child Care, WHO and UNICEF commemorating World Breastfeeding Week The unprecedented global socia…
Lire la suite by Tatenda Chimbwanda Harare, Zimbabwe - The World Health Organization (WHO) Zimbabwe, with financial assistance from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DfID), handed over offic…
Lire la suiteby Tatenda Chimbwanda Beitbridge, Zimbabwe - To all patients who visit Beitbridge District Hospital, Mmoloki Malemane seems like just any other person who checks people’s temperatures at the gate. To those…
Lire la suiteWhen WHO, National Microbiology Reference Laboratory (NMRL) and Medsure Healthcare teams reached Beitbridge, 640km from Harare, twelve laboratory personnel from Beitbridge Hospital had already tested more than 6000 samples for COVID-19. The tests were done using a GeneXpert machine with cartridges for COVID-19 testing and Real Time- Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, similar to the rapid testing kit used for HIV. GeneXpert machines are normally used to diagnose tuberculosis.
Lire la suiteBy Tatenda Chimbwanda Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe – Masvingo Province recorded its first case of COVID-19 on 23 May 2020. By 14 July 2020 the number of confirmed cases had risen to 57. Ever since the beginning of the…
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