Botswana's President Duma Boko declared a public health emergency on Monday, saying the national medical supply chain had failed, leaving hospitals and clinics short of medicine and other vital stoc...
As undergraduate degrees have lost their payoffs thanks to AI, young people have turned to advanced schooling to unlock jobs with salaries exceeding $200,000 (or in some cases, a $100 million signing ...
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has embraced cutting-edge portable technology to combat substandard and falsified medicines, which continue to be of serious concern.The authority is...
The Zimbabwe government is actively working to formalize the use of traditional medicines by promoting their registration and integration into the country's mainstream health system, Deputy Minister o...
Cabinet has approved the Principles for the Amendment of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act, a move aimed at strengthening regulation and ensuring the safety, quality, and efficacy of med...
The National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) announced it expects to receive close to 400 different lines of medicines and health consumables over the next three months as part of its efforts to imp...
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has embarked on a sweeping reform process aimed at resolving medicine shortages at public hospitals, despite the country's main pharmaceutical distributor, NatPha...
THE National Pharmaceuticals Company (NatPharm) will soon establish retail pharmacies that will dispense drugs at affordable prices and accept forms of payment accessible to the majority as Government...
Unregulated and unregistered medicines are reportedly flooding into Zimbabwe, with consignments of expired medicines being smuggled into the country through the country's porous border posts.Syndicate...
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has launched a telemedicine pilot project in Manicaland. The move is aimed at expanding the Pan African e-network telemedici...
Telecommunications regulator Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) is supporting local health facilities to access specialist services through its innovative tele-med...
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has adopted a telemedicine model that would be rolled out in the country's rural health institutions to improve access to se...
PHARMACEUTICALS manufacturing firm, MedTech Holdings, has warned of a looming drugs shortage after it failed to access foreign currency from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to import critical medic...
FORMER President Robert Mugabe should be the last person to complain about being ill-treated and being denied a retirement package commensurate with his position as former Head of State, the family of...
ABOUT 320 snake bites have been recorded from the beginning of the year in Zimbabwe with one death in the Midlands province, amid reports that there is a shortage of anti-venom countrywide.According t...