Pari refutes botched op story

Zim Now Writer

Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals has refuted the social media story which has been doing the rounds that a patient died following a botched operation at the medical facility, saying in fact, the operation was not done at the national referral hospital.

“This patient was not operated on at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals but at one of the private health care facilities,” the hospital said in a statement.

The hospital also said most of these private medical facilities have no Intensive care of High Dependency Units.

The patient in question was thus referred to Parirenyatwa ICU for further management. “Our doctors tried their best to salvage the situation but, unfortunately the patient could not make it. We would like to assure members of the public that as a government health institution, our focus is to save life and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals remains the preferred centre for such critical patients.