{"id":84874,"date":"2023-10-16T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/garry-mapanzures-sister-says-dysfunctional-health-system-failed-him"},"modified":"2023-10-16T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:40:35","slug":"garry-mapanzures-sister-says-dysfunctional-health-system-failed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/garry-mapanzures-sister-says-dysfunctional-health-system-failed-him","title":{"rendered":"Garry Mapanzure\u2019s Sister Says Dysfunctional Health System Failed Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The late musician Garry Mapanzure<\/b>\u2018s sister, Kudzai Mapanzure Chikwanha, has blamed the country\u2019s dysfunctional health system for his death and pleaded for the Government\u2019s intervention.<\/p>\n

Garry (23) died on Friday morning after he reportedly battled for his life for 12 hours, waiting for an ambulance to arrive.<\/p>\n

Speaking at his brother\u2019s burial in Masvingo on Sunday, an emotional Kudzai said she believed her brother would be alive today if the country\u2019s health system was working. NewZimbabwe.com quoted Kudzai as saying::<\/p>\n

I have one message which will not be right if I don\u2019t say it today. The health system in Zimbabwe failed Garry. I want to say it because maybe they may hear us.<\/p>\n

Maybe Garry would have been alive today, maybe somebody\u2019s life or another child, maybe some other family won\u2019t have to go through the pain we are going through. He held on for 12 hours but there was nothing in Masvingo.<\/p>\n

To me, it just means that if anyone has a serious accident in Masvingo it is a death trap, you are dead, you are as good as dead.<\/p>\n

Garry, I do not know what to say I never thought in my whole life that I would come here to bury Garry. No this is wrong.<\/p>\n

People say it is God\u2019s time but I do not believe that it was Garry\u2019s time. If the Government can hear us, do something so that another family will not have to gather again.<\/p>\n

Just one scan could have saved Garry just for him to look at what was going on in his brain. Just an ambulance could have taken him where he needed to go.<\/p>\n

I asked the hospital in Masvingo they said they had no oxygen in the ambulance. Maybe something, I do not know I don\u2019t know but I know Garry held on for 12 hours, it is not fair.<\/p>\n

Mapanzure, whose real name was Garikai Munashe Mapanzure, was critically injured in a road traffic accident that occurred in Masvingo last Thursday.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi on Sunday said the accident also claimed the lives of Langton Mandima, a male aged 27, and Kai Mapanzure, a 3-month-old male infant.<\/p>\n

The accident occurred at the 5 km peg along Masvingo \u2013 Beitbridge Road on 12th October 2023 when a Honda CRV vehicle collided head-on with a Mazda Damio.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The late musician Garry Mapanzure\u2018s sister, Kudzai Mapanzure Chikwanha, has blamed the country\u2019s dysfunctional health system for his death and pleaded for the Government\u2019s intervention. Garry (23) died on Friday morning after he reportedly battled for his life for 12 hours, waiting for an ambulance to arrive. 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