The Government yesterday advised Tanzanians to adopt healthy diet and proper life styles to protect themselves from non-communicable diseases.

District medical officer in Bonthe district over the weekend revealed to Concord Times that the district lacks qualified medical practitioners.

HEALTH workers in Mashonaland West are undergoing training on administering the new malaria drug, Coartem, that was introduced recently to replace Chloroquin and Fansida.

Submissions on the publication of two draft pieces of legislation, which are crucial in ensuring that the people of South Africa have access to affordable and quality health care, have been extended.

The Internet has produced two types of patients, says Dr Joseph Kosgey, a general practitioner at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi.

CHINHOYI Provincial Hospital has received a major boost after getting three medical doctors from Cuba under a government-to-government agreement.

The Canadian Embassy in conjunction with ZimArt recently held a charity exhibition in Harare.

Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State is launching a $250 million capital campaign, to be unveiled at the Civic Centre, Lagos, on May 1. Chief among the projects to be undertaken from the fund is its Postgraduate College of Health and

PRIVATE hospitals have responded with anger and dismay to news of the government's plans to take control of their annual price negotiations with medical schemes.

Poor rural health facilities have in recent years resulted in many cases of childbirth complications that causes 'obstetric fistula'.

THE Senate, yesterday, absolved embattled Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, Chairman of its Health Committee, of any blame in respect of the controversial N10 million from the Federal Ministry of Health's unspent N300 million.

Dr Mark Blaylock, the chief medical officer of Manguzi Hospital, has been suspended for a month without pay for putting a picture of KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni into a dustbin.

Kenya is among countries that account for 97 per cent of maternal and child deaths globally.

Mozambique is to receive this year 20 million dollars earmarked for the fight against malaria under the George Bush President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), up from the 18 million granted in 2007.

The new Minister for Medical Services took over office and gave health graduates a reason to smile: The Government will recruit 6,000 employees in the next three years.

Sir Winston Churchill, the British war Prime Minister remembered for christening Uganda, "The Pearl of Africa" is also remembered for saying, "If you meet danger promptly and without flinching- you reduce the danger by half."

About 6,000 public health workers will be hired in the next three years to reduce a shortage of staff in the sector, a Cabinet minister said on Tuesday.

The Mozambican National Health Service is now in conditions to carry out open heart surgeries, following the first successful such intervention at the Maputo Central Hospital on Monday morning, that took about three hours, reports Tuesday's issue of the daily