Leading medical aid service provider, CIMAS has moved to address the payment challenges faced by its clients who due to the current inflationary pressures have been forced to top up money to access healthcare services. In a statement last week, CIMAS said three international packages namely
Senior doctors have vowed to keep pressing the government for better working conditions and improved salaries and will not return to work until those demands are met. This is despite the return to work by junior doctors albeit without adequate medical supplies which continue to put
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has announced that patients will not be turned away from government hospitals and clinics for failing to pay the recently hiked hospital fees. According to local online publication, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child Care,
Junior doctors have ended their more than hundred days industrial action and have resumed their duties at all public hospitals, Parirenyatwa Hospital Public Relations Officer Linos Dhire has told 263Chat. Dhire said the junior doctors were already conducting their duties, a position that was confirmed by
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has reviewed hospital fees effective 1 January 2020 with patients expected to pay between ZWL$100 to ZWL$2500 at referral hospitals while district hospitals will charge ZWL$40 and ZWL$80 for children and adults respectively. The new fees regime was announced
Esther Zinyoro, affectionately known to her legion of clients as Mbuya Gwena of Mbare became an overnight heroine following the unwavering assistance she has been giving to expecting mothers, most of whom were stranded after council nurses joined the striking doctors on industrial action. Most women,
Medical Investments Limited Group (MIL) has set aside US$ 8 million towards major renovations at its flagship subsidiary, the Avenues Clinic, the first of this magnitude in the clinic’s 36 years of existence, 263Chat has learnt. The budget does not include work already been done during
President Emmerson Mnangagwa came out guns blazing and accused striking doctors of being funded externally to embark on an industrial action by people who are bent on disrupting development in the country. The President said this today at the ongoing ZANU PF National Congress in Goromonzi. Mnangagwa
Following HigherLife Foundation initiative to assist government towards payment of doctors salaries, 362 practitioners have reportedly returned to work, 263Chat can report. In an interview with 263Chat during the launch of Support Our Hospitals Initiative, HigherLife Foundation chief executive officer, Dr Kennedy Mubaiwa confirmed that of
Zimbabwe is still lagging behind in embracing mental health issues with social stigma and discrimination worsening the problem, Deputy Director for Mental Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr Chido Rwafa has said. Dr Rwafa said suicide was now the second leading
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