Zimbabwean actress Tinopona Katsande shares her experiences and concerns about the dire state of hospitals in Zimbabwe. She says patients are being discharged without receiving proper treatment, and there is a severe shortage of medication. She posted the following on her Facebook page:
Listen, SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE!! I dare say it's like some kind of genocide zvirikuitika muma gvt hospitals edu. Yes, I SAID IT. Please don't come at me with threats and scares bla bla KUINBOX kwangu because handisikunyepa ba.
Our family members, colleagues and even foes are dying without a second blink. GUYS, USINA MARI YEKUZVITENGERA MISHONGA KU GVT HOSPITAL, even down to the actual needle for the injection at some hospitals π ~ 9 out of 10, unofa because washaya rubatsiro, NOT BECAUSE "MWARI AITA KUDA KWAKE" π‘ππ€¬.
Hamuna mishonga, hamuna mibhedha, the hospital staff gives different or inadequate information or diagnosis about a patient (pano to ita confusion pachavo because vanenge vangori tuzu tuzi also not knowing how to tell a desperate patient: "We know what needs to be done but sorry we can't help, we don't have what we need to save you" β basically.
Guys, people are being discharged kuti wazviwonere... haaaa nooo mhani. Izvi hazvisikuita izvi π€¬π‘ππ€¬.
A couple of days ago, we buried baby Ropa coming from kuGomo, after what I call sheer negligence from ma doctor ne ma nurse nema confusion avo π‘. No medicines ku hospital kwacho.
Then kwaMutoko, a lower 6 student passed ku hospital because she had an asthma attack and chipatara CHESE did not have oxygen / nebulizer what what, kana even ka asthma pump kaye kaunotenga in any pharmacy to help people with asthma to breathe. ZERO, DENG, ZILTCH, NADA, PARIBE, NOTHING to save the life of a 16-year-old girl with asthma.
Ukuwo ma newspaper anoti don't worry 6 months supply of ARVS in the country availed, 2 months later vakuti 2 months supply available β meaning 6 months supply was a hoax???
Then to top it off β maclinic hobo are saying HAPANA MAPIRITSI ACHO ANYWAY π±π±π±π±π€¬.
WEDUWEEEE πππππ.
I'm soooo so angry π π‘... no accountability for this NATIONAL DISASTER eating me worse than the cancer was ππππππ.... Oooo yaaaaah.... forgive me. Ini ndaive murwere (cancer survivor) so handisikutaura from my a**. This sh*t is real.
KANA USINA BHEGHI MU ZIMBABWE and you get ill to require hospital attention β you better just choose your coffin now β wega zvako because haaa imhamhelodi chaiyo. Ehe, ndazvitaura......right... off to bury Mai Kandice from Mabvuku who passed after yesterday's visiting hour vakamirira ropa because ku gvt hakuna ropa racho that would have saved her. She was anemic. Vaito famba vachirwara β she didn't know π’.
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Ndapedza βAs you were maZimbabwean... as you were... ngatingoramba tichitaura "zvakawoma", tochema to tarisa kuside and life goes on because shuwa, ndiwe doctor here β no, saka π€·π½ββοΈ.
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