The Sunday Mail
It is my sincere hope that Harare Central Hospital chief executive officer Ms Peggy Zvavamwe will read this letter and appreciate my point of view.
We tried to engage you to shed light on the dire situation at the hospital with the hope that you could send a distress signal so that urgent action is taken — by the powers that be — to restore normal services.
But you decided to play hard to get.
Despite our attempts to explain the national importance of Harare Central Hospital as a referral centre and its strategic position, you chose to stuff your ears with logs.
However, the questions remain and as long you are in charge of that public institution Zimbabweans demand to know what is going on there.
Surely how do you justify not having painkillers in stock and suspending even minor surgeries?
I have been to the hospital and people are dying.
They are dying and will continue dying in your hands because you are failing to provide a service, whatever excuses you have.
I am pained and the pain comes from deep in my heart when I think of those who have died unjustifiably over the past weeks.
My pain is for those who are facing death and the pain is for those who cannot afford to seek medical services at private hospitals.
I feel pain for that woman, man, boy and girl who has been referred to your care from Matika village in Chipinge, Chikuku in Bikita, Bakasa in Muzarabani or Cross Mabale in Hwange.
Ironically, you have erected a big board at the main entrance of the medical institution with inscriptions “Welcome, Mauya, Siyamukele”.
Madam, that welcome has become a welcome to ‘hell’.
You bask in luxury and think all those patients coming to the hospital are visiting for a holiday.
Tourists don’t visit hospital they visit holiday resorts. Those people visiting your hospital are patients in pain. Previously, you have blamed non-paying patients for the woes at Harare Central Hospital.
Who do you expect to pay for a non-existent service?
How can people pay when they are subjected to outsourcing drugs?
Madam, you need to explain and we are still waiting for your response.
Yours in pain.
Levy Mukarati
