Zimbabwe has failed to manage one if its first coronavirus case. Currently Zimbabwe recorded two coronavirus cases one one of them have just died.
Zororo Makamba, the popularly known radio and TV presenter broadcaster died yesterday after succumbing to coronavirus in the capital Harare. Zororo is also the son of South Africa based Telecoms tycoon and millionaire James Makamba. Zororo’s family were not happy with the way their son’s medical care was delivered.
Zimbabwe’s has one coronavirus hospital – Wilkins hospital
Zimbabwe currently has one coronavirus hospital. The hospital is called Wilkins and is located in Harare. Currently it is reported to have a total of 40 beds allocated for coronavirus patients. The claim was dismissed by the Makamba family who had a first hand experience at Wilkins. They have advised the Zimbabweans that Wilkins cannot take care of a single coronavirus patient.
No water, no electricity sockets, no equipment in Zimbabwe hospitals
Zimbabwe hospitals are a death trap. There is no running water and electricity. The hospital reserved for coronavirus has no running water. The spokesperson to the Makamba family, Tawanda said, ” We then brought the ventilator on Sunday by 2pm and when we got here, because 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 and they never used it and when I asked why they were not using the ventilator they said they had no sockets in his room.”
Not enough test kits
Zimbabwe has not enough coronavirus test kits. The family revealed they had to wait form more than 18 hours for the tests to be run as the government waits for samples from all provinces to test them at once.
Tawanda said, “He arrived at Wilkins Hospital by 10 am and samples were collected from him and we were told that the results would be in after 6 hours. After 6 hours there were no results and his general practitioner called to find out why the results had not been availed yet. The hospitals officials then told the GPA that they had not run the tests yet they were waiting for samples from provincial hospitals to run them all at once.”