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Bed bugs invade Machinga health centre: Newly born babies affected

January 19, 2016, 9:24 pm
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Newly born babies at Magamba Health Centre in Machinga risk unorthodox welcome into the world with a bed bug bite as the insects are now a menace in labour and maternity wings. Women in the wards are frantically pleading with authorities to spray chemicals as soon as possible as the situation has gone out of hand. Machinga District Hospital spokesman Clifton Ngozo confirmed that bed bugs are now a menace in most health facilities in Machinga including Machinga District Hospital and Magamba Health Centre. "We do spray chemicals in wards if we are alerted of bed bugs and we will go to the health centre to spray the wards with chemicals that will kill the bed bugs," he said. He could however not say when exactly the spraying exercise would start. Bed bugs have also hit boarding secondary schools forcing some students abandon lessons in extreme circumstances.
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Fisherman murdered on Lake Chilwa: Albino girl abduction foiled

January 28, 2016, 9:04 am
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Malawi Police  Service at Nayuchi in Machinga are keeping in custody 25 year old Usuman  Bizwick for allegedly killing 35 year old Meya Walusa on Lake Chilwa after the two picked a quarrel over trivial matters. Police have confirmed the death, saying medical examination at Nayuchi Health Center indicated that Meya died due to severe loss of blood. The two were fishermen on the Cholera infested Lake Chilwa, according to Machinga Police Public Relations Officer, Constable Davie Sulumba. According to the publicist, another fisherman, Haroon Abdul reported the issue to Nayuchi Police after he saw Bizwick in his own boat chasing Walusa who was also riding his. The debate as to who between the two had more cash than the other arose and degenerated into a quarrel which resulted into a bloody scene. Walusa was shouting for help and upon following the chase it was discovered that he was bleeding and had sustained a deep cut on his neck, according to police statement recorded from Abdul who witnessed the chase while seating on a floating hut (Chimbowela ) in lake Chilwa. “Bizwick is expected to answer murder charges contrary to section 209 of the Penal Code,” Sulumba said. Both Bizwick and Walusa come from Mphonde Village, Sub-Traditional Authority Mchinguza in the district. Authorities in Machinga were about to set ablaze the floating huts on the Lake Chilwa after Cholera outbreak was reported. The decision was however reversed. Albino abduction foiled Meanwhile, in the same district of Machina, an  abduction of a nine year old girl with albinism was foiled as police arrested a 24 year old man  who offered half a million kwacha to the girl’s brother to facilitate the move. Police spokesman Sulumba confirmed the arrest of Mandela Paipi of Nachuma village, Traditional Authority Nkoola in the district. The publicist said the suspect will answer a charge of ‘conduct likely to cause breach of peace’. He said Paipi approached the nine year old girl’s brother to facilitate the abduction by offering to share with him K500,000. The brother tipped his mother of the abduction plot and the mother in tiunr informed the members of community policing who then apprehended Paipi and handed him to Ntaja police. The recent case of abduction of people with albinism was that of a boy from Dedza whose father connived with men in Machinga to cross over into Mozambique through a border at Nyambi in the district. The police arrested the boy’s father and the case is still in the high court at Zomba.
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Malawi Police arrest serial sex offender:  65-year man gave K50 to two girls he defiled

February 1, 2016, 10:09 am
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Malawi Police in Machinga have arrested 65 year old Gringo Binda for allegedly defiled two little girls who revealed that the man has been giving them K50 to share as a reward each time of the sexual acts. Police in Machinga confirmed the arrest of Binda from Musheka Village, Traditional Authority Chikowi in Zomba whose alleged defilement is contrary to Section 138 of the Penal Code. Police Public Relations Officer for Machinga Constable, Davie Sulumba said the two girls aged six and nine respectively went for medical examinations at Mposa Health Centre where it was confirmed that they were indeed defiled. The police arrested the suspect after member of Community Policing at Mposa apprehended him after one of the defiled girl's mother reported the matter to the community based policing group. The mother saw the girls with a K50.00 note which the girls said they received it from Binda but could not clearly explain why they deserved the cash. The mother took the girls to the suspect  who admitted to know the girls but was not clear why he gave them the cash until the two girls revealed that Binda has been giving the K50.00s each time he defiles them, according to Constable Sulumba. In the meantime, Binba under police custody waiting for a trial. Police is however is calling on parents and guardians to discourage small girls to interact with strange men or unmarried men to avoid cases of defilement and other sexual exploitations. The District Aids Coordinator for Machinga, Ben Tohno has condemned the act saying such acts could easily transmit HIV due to bruises that associated with transgenerational sex. He however called on parents and guardians to refer victims of defilement or rape to their nearest health centers within 72 hours for HIV test to also access Post Exposure Prophylaxis. (PEP) if proven HIV negative. PEP is a type of ARVs given to those that accidentally come into contact t with human blood or those that are defiled, raped, according to the coordinator.--Mana
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Another Malawi cholera death reported as health workers strike in Machinga

February 15, 2016, 10:39 pm
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Cholera ravages

One person died of cholera on Monday in Machinga whilst seven others were unattended at a health centre in the district after health workers boycotted work to force the government pay them overtime allowances. [caption id="attachment_103571" align="alignright" width="300"]Cholera ravages Cholera ravages[/caption] Poor sanitation exacerbates the spread of cholera. Reports from Namanja Health Centre indicate the health workers are not happy with the district health office decision not to pay overtime to health workers who are working round the clock attending to cholra patients. "The lives of the other seven cholera  patients is in danger if the work boycott continues," said our source at Machinga District Hospital. He said the workers were irked by comments from the district health officer who simply told the workers they would be dismissed if they went ahead with the boycott. Machinga District Hospital publicist Clifton Ngozo said the district hospital received the reports of the death of the cholera patient and the boycott of work by the health workers, but said he could not comment as the office was investigating the matter. At least nine people have since died of cholera in Machinga in the past two months. The government pays out an overtime allowance to health workers working outside normal working hours and it is known as locum in hospitals. However the government has drastically cut hospital budgets due to severe financial problems forcing some hospitals to pay the allowance to workers.
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Mysterious death with missing body party: Man killed on his door step

May 2, 2016, 3:06 am
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 Machinga women benefit from Village savings loans

May 20, 2016, 5:39 pm
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Machinga boma moves to Liwonde

May 31, 2016, 3:42 am
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Malawi Police arrest 3 over illegal ivory possession

June 7, 2016, 3:39 am
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Malawi Police arrest father over botched abduction of girl with albinism

June 9, 2016, 8:51 pm
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Malawi court jails man with albino bones for 10 years

June 27, 2016, 9:40 pm
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Teen husband kills pregnant wife, Malawi Police arrest him

July 8, 2016, 1:19 am
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Traditional leader torches Jando initiation camps

September 5, 2016, 8:48 pm
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Malawi court sentences man four years jail for elephant poaching

November 10, 2016, 7:47 pm
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Girl school drop-out rate worries Machinga District Council

March 29, 2017, 4:02 am
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Mutharika installs Yao Paramount Chief Kawinga in Machinga: Muluzi attends corononation

April 29, 2017, 8:55 pm
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Court fines motor cyclist for ‘riding dangerously’, hitting 4-year-old boy

July 25, 2017, 9:51 pm
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Woman convicted for aiding man to jump bail

August 1, 2017, 7:21 am
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Malawi govt to construct five secondary schools in Machinga

November 20, 2017, 8:04 pm
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Malawian man fake death, slapped with 9-months jail term

November 28, 2017, 7:50 am
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Nankhumwa spearheads Lhomwe expansion in Yao territory

January 17, 2018, 10:36 pm
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