Malawi: Mutharika Bans Public Health Workers From Owning Private Clinics in Crackdown On Corruption

Malawi: Mutharika Bans Public Health Workers From Owning Private Clinics in Crackdown On Corruption

President Peter Mutharika has taken one of the toughest actions ever against corruption in Malawi's health sector by barring all public hospital employees from owning, operating or holding shares in private clinics or pharmacies, a decision that directly targets what many Malawians have long described as the quiet business of suffering inside public hospitals.

Malawi Bans Public Health Workers from Private Practices - Voice of Nigeria Broadcasting Service

Malawian President, Peter Mutharika has issued an executive order barring employees in public hospitals and other state-run health facilities from owning, operating, or holding shares in private clinics or pharmacies. The order came as a way to curb conflicts of interest and corruption in the health sector. The order issued also prohibits government health workers from soliciting, demanding, or accepting payments or monetary favours from patient…

Malawi: Govt Bars Public Health Workers From Owning Private Clinics

By Emmanuel Nduka Obisue President Peter Mutharika has issued an executive order prohibiting employees of public hospitals and other state-run health facilities from owning, operating, or holding shares in private clinics and pharmacies. The directive, announced on Tuesday, is aimed at tackling conflicts of interest and corruption within the country’s health sector. Under the order, government-employed health workers are also barred from solicit…

Peter Mutharika cracks down on hospital graft

By Mercy Matonga: President Peter Mutharika has ordered that no health worker should be found operating a private clinic, adding that no health worker in government hospitals should be receiving mo…

Mutharika censures public sector healthcare workers

President Peter Mutharika has cracked the whip on public sector healthcare workers by banning them from owning, operating or holding shares in private clinics to improve service delivery. In an Executive Order Number One of 2026, the President has given the healthcare staff 30 days to comply with the directive or risk dismissal and legal action. The President, in a direct reaction to a joint investigative journalism report by local media houses …

Mutharika Cracks Down on Health Sector Corruption with Sweeping Executive Order After Media Expose

By Suleman Chitera State President Peter Mutharika has issued a sweeping executive order aimed at overhauling the country’s public health system, following revelations of entrenched corruption in government health facilities. The directive comes in the wake of a joint media investigation by several news outlets,, which uncovered a syndicate involving some health workers allegedly soliciting bribes from patients for services that are legally mand…