TWO mentally challenged patients escaped from
Parirenyatwa Annex Psychiatric Unit during visiting hours at the weekend, causing commotion in
the Avenues area of Harare as well as the central business district.
Onlookers reported that the two were terrorising
pedestrians with one of the patients controlling traffic at corner Chinamano
Avenue and Third Street as the Annex officials launched a manhunt for the two
escapees.
Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals head of public relations
Linos Dhire confirmed the escape, adding that a team has been deployed to
locate the patients.
“It is true that two of our patients are reported to have
escaped during the visiting hour today (yesterday),” Dhire told the Daily News.
“The hospital is still searching for them so that they can
be returned by the hospital ambulance. We have since informed their relatives
and the police.”
An annex hospital is a mental institution which caters for
the acute, sub cute, chronic and also mental subnormal patients, including
those with psychological, neurological and substance abuse. Patients are
treated free of charge. Daily News
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