You are defending nonsense @realmedicaldoc How do you perform surgery when the whole of Parirenyatwa hasn’t had oxygen for the past 4 days? Are you doing mouth to mouth on your patients? Harare Hospital doesn’t have the drug called Sevoflurane which is needed for surgery, so how are you performing these surgeries Doc? More than 40 patients needed surgery in Harare on Friday and yet the two biggest hospitals both in Harare couldn’t do it because one has no oxygen and the other one had no drugs. Please STOP peddling propaganda when citizens are dying, you are a doctor for goodness sake.

Your tweet is very misleading and maybe deliberately so too @realmedicaldoc Now that the discussion is open, let us plough through it for the benefit of everyone else so that I show how you misled people who are not conversant with this issue as you and I are. What scale is the Zimbabwean program @realmedicaldoc? We know that the Rwandese one is large scale and is linked to tertiary, provincial and district levels. Minimal Invasive Surgery is very broad, for instance it can just mean laparoscopy. Yes Zimbabwe does laparoscopic surgery, but it is not large scale. Zimbabwe has no specialised Minimally Invasive Surgery centres, we do laparoscopy yes, but it’s not specialized. Your assertion that Zimbabwe was the first to have Minimally Invasive Surgery is FALSE, like a real big FAT LIE! Read this if you are in doubt; scielo.org.za/scielo.php?scr… Minimally Invasive Surgery was pioneered in the 1980s, achieved prominence in the 1990s, and has become the standard of care for many procedures today, yet you say Mnangagwa opened something related recently and you were only trained last week. Be serious Doc. Germany, performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy on September 12, 1985-that is 38 years ago. South Africa did this way before Zimbabwe knew about it. Come on Doc, Parirenyatwa doesn’t even have oxygen to perform basic surgery for over 4 days. Harare Hospital doesn’t have Sevoflurane, so why would you push propaganda Doc when you are a practitioner? The fact that you had to do a week of training of something that’s not new in the medical field is a failure for a country that had the best medical system in Africa, only second to South Africa, at independence. Whilst you are lying that Zimbabwe was the first to do Minimally Invasive Surgery in Southern Africa, here is a paper for your followers to read showing that South Africa was doing Minimally Invasive heart surgery before Mnangagwa was President.👇🏿👇🏿 mediclinicinfohub.co.za/mini… Zimbabwe doesn’t even have a heart bypass machine.

Today President Paul Kagame of Rwanda inaugurated a new center of excellence in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Kigali, Rwanda. What is Minimally Invasive Surgery? It is when surgeons use various ways to operate with less damage to the body than with open surgery. Minimally invasive surgery is linked to less pain, a shorter hospital stay and fewer complications. Rwanda has very little mineral resources compared to Zimbabwe, it is a smaller economy yet it is doing far much more than Zimbabwe. Why can’t our leaders see that they have failed us in so many embarrassing ways. How can a country which was the second biggest sophisticated economy in Africa at independence be beaten by a stretch by a country that was rubble in 1994? Corruption chases away investors, these technological advances should have been what Zimbabwe is known for because we have the money. But alas, our biggest hospitals don’t even have oxygen, no drugs, no X-Ray machines, not even a single working radiotherapy machine in the whole country, no running water at the biggest hospital in Zimbabwe, yet other Africans are now investing in advanced technologies for their people.