Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) says protracted negotiations on land issues have delayed relocation of people displaced by Cyclone Freddy currently living in disaster-prone areas. Dodma deputy director of disaster preparedness Fredson Chikuse in an interview yesterday said it will take longer to relocate the people from disaster-prone areas to safer and permanent settlements
Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has conceded that stocks of essential drugs have reached critically low levels after dropping from 70 to 30 percent in the past year. She acknowledged the dire situation in Lilongwe on Wednesday when she received a 165-tonne consignment of medical drugs and anti-cancer medicine from the Government of India.
Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has said Malawi and other member States are struggling to embrace modern farming technologies, universal health coverage (UHC) and gender equality, effectively slowing down socio-economic development. Sadc Parliamentary Forum secretary general Boemo Mmandu Sekgoma said this on Wednesday in her virtual keynote address to the Regional Dialogue for Non-State Actors
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has said the region is struggling to embrace modern farming technologies, universal health coverage and gender equality, effectively slowing down social-economic development. Sadc Parliamentary Forum secretary general Boemo Mmandu Sekgoma said this on Wednesday in her virtual address to the Regional Dialogue for Non-State Actors on the Sadc Regional
NGO-Gender Coordinating Network (NGO-GCN) has expressed concern over the shortage of under-five clinics in some health facilities in Nsanje and Chikwawa districts. The network, which is conducting a safety audit survey on how Cyclone Freddy affected health facilities in the two districts, has found that four health centres in Nsanje and three in Chikwawa have