Businessman Saul Sakudya, one of the first people in Zimbabwe to test positive for Covid-19, says some people are so afraid of catching the virus they avoid coming into his road altogether.
Harare - When Saul Sakudya arrived in an ambulance at a hospital in Zimbabwe's capital after contracting Covid-19, he said the medical staff wouldn't go near him because they were afraid of becoming infected.
"The way they dispersed was as if there were 10 hungry lions being released from the ambulance, imagine, yet I am just a human being," Sakudya told Reuters. "I thought I would die." Prosper Chonzi, health director for Harare city, which runs the hospital, told Reuters that when Sakudya was admitted, it had not yet implemented protocols to handle coronavirus patients.Even in the best of times, Zimbabwe's health system suffers from shortages of medicine and basic equipment. The government has been raising donations of protective clothing, but frontline health workers say supplies are still inadequate.
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