Elderly people in Rumphi say social cash transfer programme (SCTP) has offered them a chance to live dignified lives and has rescued them from abject poverty.
Youths in Rumphi have expressed excitement at the revision of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocation for youth and women empowerment from five to 10 percent describing it as a right direction in fighting poverty.
Rumphi District Council has launched investigations into a collapsed ablution block to uncover root causes that will guide it on subsequent actions to take.
Just a few hours before Matunkha Development Trust donated K16 million worth drugs to Rumphi District Hospital on Wednesday,police in the district arrested a pharmacy assistant at the facility, Robert Mwale, for allegedly stealing 50 viles of anti-rabies vaccine and a carton of oral rehydration salt.
Number of youths arrested for various crimes in Rumphi has increased, a situation Rumphi Police Station has attributed to lack of economic generating opportunities among the youths in the district.
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Volunteers supporting health workers in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) in Rumphi have hailed the donation of bicycles by Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Southern Africa Trust (SRHR SAT) which they say will ease their transport challenges.
Parliamentary Committee on Health has said it was impressed with strides which are being undertaken by Rumphi District Hospital to contain Cholera cases from over 1,044 cumulative cases to three as of January 11, 2023.
