Doctors prescribe cloth masks
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka THE Zambia Medical Association (ZMA) has advised members of the public against buying surgical masks from streets because some people have reportedly been recycling the protective covers…
PRESIDENT Lungu during a special Cabinet meeting at State House recently.
PICTURE: EDDIE MWANALEZA/ STATE HOUSE
Lungu orders 400 doctors to join fight
NANCY SIAME ,Lusaka YESTERDAY Zambia recorded no new cases of coronavirus, but President Edgar Lungu is not taking any chances as he ordered the recruitment of 400 doctors and 3,000…
Rotation of doctors hampering cancer treatment
Dear editor,
THE opening of the Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH) has been hailed as a blessing to the country. (more…)
Respect medical doctors’ advice
THE easy access to prescription drugs, without medical advice, is worrisome and there is need for immediate action to stem this. (more…)
Needles boy on mend, doctors hailed
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka
THE condition of three-year-old Richard Zulu, who underwent the last operation on Thursday at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) to remove 11 needles which remained in his body, is stable. (more…)
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Doctors pull out last needles
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka
THE University Teaching Hospital (UTH) yesterday successfully conducted a four-hour surgery on three-year-old Richard Zulu and removed all the 11 remaining needles from his body. (more…)
FILE: SURGEONS carrying out an operation to separate conjoined twins, Mapalo and Bupe, at the University Teaching Hospital.
PICTURE: ANGELA NTENTABUNGA
200 doctors get direct jobs
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka
GOVERNMENT has directed the Health Professions Council of Zambia (HPCZ) to cancel the licentiate examinations scheduled for this monthend to enable 200 doctors who graduated last year to be employed as interns. (more…)
Men risk being useless, warn doctors
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka THE Zambia Medical Association (ZMA) has warned that men who are in the habit of using aphrodisiacs risk being dysfunctional if they do not desist from the…