The Makamba family is fuming following the death of Zororo,
alone and scared at Wilkins Hospital in Harare. The family blasted the Ministry
of Health and Child Welfare saying they neglected their son by their lack of
preparedness and denying Zororo private care.
Tawanda Makamba, elder brother to Zororo told the Daily
News, “The minister at some point suggested that we could take him to a trauma
centre in Borrowdale. When it was now time for us to go to Borrowdale trauma
they refused us to go there.”
“Instead they got the owner of Borrowdale Trauma Centre to
call me and he told me that he could come and set up an ICU at Wilkins for
Zororo complete with a ventilator and monitors, but he said that we had to pay
US$120 000 for the equipment. He added that once Zororo finishes using the
equipment and recovers we had to donate the equipment to Wilkins Hospital. So
basically the hospital wanted us to buy the equipment for them. We don’t have
US$120 000.”
“The hospital did not have any medication to help Zororo.
We sourced a ventilator from a family friend. The only medication available are
the ones we bought from South Africa. We then bought the ventilators on Sunday
2pm, and when we got to Wilkins, the portable ventilator had an American plug.
They told us to get an adapter because they only had round sockets at the
hospital. I then rushed to buy an adapter and came back but they never used it.
I asked why and they said there are no plugs in the room.
"At the end before he died, he kept telling us that he
was alone and scared and the staff was refusing to help him...So this is
how my younger brother ended up dying. I want people to know the government is
lying.”
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