JK to health workers: You can stop maternal and child deaths

 President Jakaya Kikwete President Jakaya Kikwete has appealed to health workers in the country to ensure that lives of women and children are not at risk during delivery.Calling it a major national silent emergency, President Kikwete said it is a unacceptable that as many as 455 women out of every 100,000 live births die during delivery in a country boasting a comprehensive health system.The president was giving his remarks during the launch of the ‘Tanzania countdown and a promise...

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THINKING CRITICALLY: Sad watching the Bunge budget sitting

 Dr Azaveli Feza Lwatama  Parliament is currently in its budget sitting and it is sad watching the conduct of the majority of its members. The sitting is supposed to be used by MPs to perform their cardinal civic duty of effecting oversight over government expenditure. Ministers are supposed to be held to account for the use of budgetary allocations passed by the last budget sitting.Parliamentarians are also supposed to scrutinize and pass the next financial year’s budgetary allocations....

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CMSA mulls removing restrictions on capital movement next year

                                              Capital Markets and Securities Authority (CMSA) The Capital Markets and Securities Authority (CMSA) is contemplating to lift all restrictions which have been limiting the free movement of capital to and from the country before...

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Dengue spreads to Isles, Shinyanga

The Mnazi Mmoja head of disease prevention, Dr Salma Masauni, confirmed the matter. She said at least two women were admitted to the hospital, one of whom is a businesswoman from the Mainland Zanzibar/Dar es Salaam/Shinyanga. At least two people have been referred to the Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar, where they were admitted after being diagnosed with dengue fever.The reports from the Isles came as health authorities in Shinyanga also said a case of a four-year-old child who died...

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