Chrissie Kanyasho is a

Malawi Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...

an politician who is a member of the

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who represents Nkhata bay North. She was the deputy minister of health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Life

Kanyasho was born in

Nkhata Bay Nkhata Bay (or simply Nkhata) is the capital of the Nkhata Bay District in Malawi. It is on the shore of Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyasa), east of Mzuzu, and is one of the main ports on Lake Malawi. The population of Nkhata Bay was 14,274 acc ...

. She was a member of the

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and she represents the constituency of Nkhata bay North. She was first elected in the May 2019 elections. She is a member of the

Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus The Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus is a cross party group of women who are members of Malawi's National Assembly. It was formed in 1996 when there were nine women members of parliament who wanted to work together across parties whenever the ...

and she has sat on the Budget Committee and the Pan African Committee. In 2020 her party's deputy publicity secretary decided to leave the party and he joined the

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who were then in government. Kanyasho who was already the party's spokesperson on finance also took the deputy role for publicity. Later that year the Presidential elections were re-run and

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was elected. He had said that he would increase cabinet positions to be 40% women. He narrowly missed his own target but he appointed four women as ministers and eight as deptuty ministers. Kanyasho became the deputy minister of health. In September 2020 during the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

she received supplies from China. China had sent a million dollars worth of medical equipment which included test kits, thirty ventilators and a medical team. The supplies were to be distributed to hospitals. In January 2021 the Presidenr declared a country wide emergency because pf the pandemic. In July 2021 she noted that the country was facing a third wave of the pandemic and she was thanking the public, the church and Action for Progress Malawi for their assistance. In 2023 she used her constituency development fund to create an office space for teachers at Nthembo school in

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