Chronicle Correspondent

THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare is on high malaria alert amid reports that 15 138 malaria cases and four deaths were reported in one week.

Chronicle Reporter

MATABELELAND North province recorded 10 584 new Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) cases in 2012 compared to 8 416 the previous year, despite an increase in the distribution of condoms.

Lenin Ndebele and Givemore Muzariri

THE local financial services sector is depressed, businesses are shutting down, especially in Bulawayo and those wishing to start their own enterprises are running short of ideas.

Midlands Correspondent

MNENE Mission Hospital is reportedly facing a critical shortage of essential drugs as most of the hospital's drug stocks were burnt after they expired.

Chronicle Reporter

THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare has completed assessing the new circumcision method and is awaiting approval from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to adopt it, an official said yesterday.

Makhosi Sibanda

REDUCING common diarrhoea cases is listed top of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare’s priorities for 2013, after the disease accounted for up to five deaths per week last year.

Court Reporter

A Bulawayo man who was allegedly left partially disabled and forced into early retirement after an operation at Mater Dei Hospital last year, has dragged the health institution to court.

Chronicle Reporters

THE National Blood Service of Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has met its initial 2012 target

Pamela Shumba

A total of 70 eye patients from Binga District in Matabeleland North Province had their sight restored after undergoing surgical operations to remove cataracts.

Masvingo Correspondent

MASVINGO has been hit by a diarrhoea outbreak with children aged five and below being the most affected.

Chronicle Correspondent

THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare is on alert for bilharzia ahead of the onset of the rainy season.