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Hooray!! a throwback to a successful MEHA conference & AGM

It has been three months since MEHA had a successful annual conference and AGM. The events happened from 16th June 2022 to 17th June 2022 in Mangochi District. The event pulled Environmental Health practitioners from all corners of Malawi as well as international delegates. The first day of the event was filled with lots of …

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MEHA supports Blantyre District Health Office to recruit volunteers to support Polio Vaccine campaign

As the plans are in the pipeline for MEHA to introduce an internship program where MEHA partners are linked with Environmental Health students seeking internship opportunities; MEHA had a chance to support the recruitment process of volunteers who supported Polio Vaccination campaign in Blantyre District.   This happened in response to a call which was …

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Dedza District Health Office receives mobile gadgets

Dedza District Health Office receives mobile gadgets as 3rd round of Polio Vaccine campaign commences

Dedza Chief Preventive Health Officer (CPHO) & Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) receiving the donation from the Minister of Health & UNICEF representatives While sometimes it may be practical and efficient, paper-based data collection present a number of challenges including data loss and untimeliness in transferring the data especially in the remote health facilities. These challenges …

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Kamsonga Health Center Management Committe(HCMC)

Kamsonga Health center management Committe(HCMC) in Ntchitsi has engaged its community and is currently constructing 4 houses for a nurse,clinician and 2  HSAs. This follows capacity building sessions facilitated by MEHA on HSA project funded by AMREF.The project was started in July, 2020 and concetrates on strengthening community health systems. #AMREF #Last Mile #USAID #UKAID

LWB, MHC urged to closely watch Area 18 sewer and water systems

The Malawi Environmental Health Association (Meha) is imploring the Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) and Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) to continue inspecting what it terms ‘functionality of the sewerage and water systems’ in Area 18 in the Capital City. This is coming months after a water contamination saga that saw residents of Area 18 A being …

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Cholera Claims 4

Four people have died since the outbreak of cholera, statistics from Karonga District Health Office indicates. This comes at a time health activists in the country are blaming the government for what they call a lackadaisical approach to the outbreak. However, on Thursday, Minister of Health, Atupele Muluzi, played down the outbreak saying the government …

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Smoking in public could end in Malawi: Environmental experts lobby for anti-smoking policy

Environmental experts in Malawi have called for anti-public smoking policy following high records of deaths due to smoking of cigarettes in public. According to World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, over five thousand Malawians are killed by tobacco-caused diseases annually. The statistics further show that six million people die annually around the globe from smoking with …

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