Thursday, March 28, 2024

Health

Quintuplets doing Ok-UTH

UTH Managing Director Luckson Kasonka has revealed that the five babies who were born from a 32 year old Lusaka woman this week are...

Kitwe Central Baby swap case: Minister castigates management and orders immediate DNA test

Copperbelt Province Minister Mwenya Musenge has taken a swipe at Kitwe Central Hospital management over the negligence that resulted in a suspected baby swapping...

Suspected measles break out at Mpelembe Secondary School

Suspected measles has broken out at Mpelembe Secondary School in Kitwe on the Copperbelt. This has forced school authorities to send home pupils in non-examination...

Hospital denies swapping babies, promise to do DNA test in South Africa to sort the case

Kitwe Central Hospital (KCH) management has insisted that claims by a Kitwe couple that their newly-born baby boy was swapped for a female are...

Cholera cases in Mpulungu increase

The cholera situation in Mpulungu district has persisted with 196 cases being treated since the outbreak in August, this year. This came to light when...

Zambia falls short of 15 per cent budget allocation to health – NGOCC

The Non-Governmental Organizations Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has observed that Zambia still falls short of the Abuja Declaration of 15 per cent total allocation to...

Chief thanks Government for sending a mobile Hospital to his area

Chief Mukonchi of the Swaka people in Kapiri Mposhi district has commended government for sending a Mobile Hospital to his area to...

Increase in health sector budget elates minister

Minister of Health Joseph Kasonde has observed that the 2013 budget that was presented last Friday is a fulfilment of the Patriotic Front (PF)...