Medical Doctor Adroph Dube Collapses in Chicken Bus
A young medical doctor, Adroph Dube (37), passed away on Sunday night after collapsing in a chicken bus in Chivhu.
This unfortunate incident highlights the dire state of Zimbabwe's healthcare system. At independence, medical doctors traveled by air to Masvingo, Chiredzi, and even to Catholic mission hospitals like Mutero in Gutu.
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However, the airstrips in some of these places are now defunct. In fact, all regular domestic flights except between Harare and Bulawayo have long ceased.
The health profession has decried the working conditions of its members, which are among the worst in the world.
This is not the first time that a medical doctor has lost their life due to the poor state of Zimbabwe's healthcare system. Last month, another medical doctor, Mthabisi Nembaware, was killed in Mutare after he had hitchhiked.
The situation is dire and requires immediate attention from the government.
The collapse of Zimbabwe's healthcare system can be attributed to several factors such as poor funding, corruption, shortage of health workers, lack of adequate vital medicines, poor referral systems, and dilapidated infrastructure.
The COVID-19 pandemic has only piled more pressure on Zimbabwe's crumbling healthcare system.
Medical Doctor Adroph Dube Collapses in Chicken Bus
Visits to the country's major government hospitals have exposed shocking revelations of a collapsing health delivery system, compounded by medical personnel taking advantage of poor desperate patients in the hospitals‘ corridors and selling them drugs on the black market.
The future is bleak unless there are serious long-term reforms to build resilience. Zimbabweans deserve better access to quality healthcare services.
A young Chiredzi medical doctor Adroph Dube (37), collapsed and died in a chicken bus in Chivhu on Sunday night. Do you know that at independence medical doctors travelled by air to Masvingo, Chiredzi and even on business to Catholic mission hospitals like Mutero in Gutu? The… pic.twitter.com/EJZ1TiMDEB
— The Mirror Masvingo (@TheMirrorMsv) October 11, 2023
