The Makamba family says their son, Zororo died after being neglected by the government. The family told the Daily News that they were aske...
The Makamba family says their son, Zororo died after being
neglected by the government. The family told the Daily News that they were
asked to pay US$120 000 for a ventilator, money the family did not have.
Zororo’s elder brother, Tawanda said :”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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