Thursday, October 31, 2024

Health

Copperbelt records more than 70 cases of cholera

Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Ville Lombanya says the province has recorded more than 70 cases of cholera from Chililabombwe and Kitwe districts this season while...

Sex reports during trials regrettable – MDP official

Microbicide Development Programme (MDP), Mazabuka Community Liason Officer, Kennedy Mundia has described as unfortunate claims by a Microbicide participant that women were subjected to...

District Commissioner threatens to lock up MDP victim’s Husband

Mazabuka District Commissioner, Tyson Hamaamba yesterday threatened to use Police to lock up the husband to a woman who participated in the failed microbicide...

Halt HIV/AIDS Microbicide testing – Chief Mwanachingwala

Chief Mwanachingwala of Mazabuka has asked Microbicide Development Programme (MDP)'s management to stop any further clinical trials on the prevention of HIV/AIDs in...

Ukrainian Doctor found dead in Solwezi

A forty seven year old Ukrainian Medical Doctor was found dead at his residence in low density area of Solwezi yesterday morning. The late medical...

Mwanachingwala, Catholic Church welcome investigations into microbicide gel saga

Chief Mwanachingwala and the Catholic church in Mazabuka have welcomed the decision by the Human rights commission to institute investigations into how the 46...

Monze Mission Hospital threatens to reduce number of meals for patients

Monze Mission Hospital has threatened to reduce the number of meals given to patients from three to one per day if funding to the...

Kapoto residents refuse to drink treated water because ‘it can make them impotent’

Residents of Kapoto shanty compound where cholera has broken out in Kitwe have shocked the district administration after they refused to be drinking treated...