My friend’s sick child
A friend of mine works in Bulawayo as a Domestic worker and earns a salary of 1,5 million. His nine month old son is very ill the other side of Kezi towards the Botswana border. My friend’s elderly mother took the child to the local hospital but there were no medicines there. She then took the child to a mission where a foreign doctor helped her - the child was there in bed for two weeks. The child is now back at home with her but he is still very ill. My friend is worried that his child might have AIDS. He borrowed some money from his employer and is leaving to go home to see the child. The bus fare will be over half a million dollars. He plans to try and find the same doctor to find out exactly what is the problem. He says that he has very little information and is desperate to know what is wrong with his child. His worst fear is that perhaps the child is dying and no one wants to tell him. My friend is desperate. He wants to bring the child to town where he can look after him but is worried that if the child dies in town that it will be very costly. He is also angry and keeps saying that he can’t understand what has happened to Zimbabwe and what happened to the times when everyone had everything, food, jobs, medicines and good doctors and nurses. Mugabe has ruined everything!!!
April 11th, 2006 12:00
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April 12th, 2006 09:52
hi there nice to know this blog , make me see and realize , i must always be thanksfully for what the good thinga i have get, i pray fom here for all children in there for more rich people can give their money , so they can get their health for sure
February 20th, 2007 23:22
“he can’t understand what has happened to Zimbabwe and what happened to the times when everyone had everything, food, jobs, medicines and good doctors and nurses. Mugabe has ruined everything!!!”
The good times ended in 1978 and it has been getting worse ever since thanks to mugabe.
NO! do not wait for “more rich people can give their money”. Who are these rich people, stop living in dreamworld, there are no rich people who just give away money or do you mean the White people who are by definition “Rich”?????
You are independent now..remember!
March 17th, 2007 12:30
very young children and even adults are dying everyday caused from hunger…You think this too? then lets all get together to make a change! Put a stop to it! And put smiles on every ones faces!