By Own Correspondent- Parirenyatwa Group Of Hospital staff members have expressed concern over controversial preacher Walter Magaya’s claim that he has healed a man who had a troublesome tumor.

The church 2 days ago published the man’s pictures before and after a surgical operation as they made their claim that it was Magaya who performed the healing using his so called anointing oil.

Below is the full report:

Paritenyatwa Group Of Hospitals does not ordinarily respond to false media reports which involve issues to do with patient confidentially, a cardinal rule for clinicians.

However, as a socially responsible institution and acting in the best interest of the public, there are times the institution is compelled to clarify issues of public interest.

It has come to our attention that there is a false media article on one of our patients, Mr Peter Manganda who had a severe scalp tumor on the head and was admitted at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals from 22 April 2019 to 7 May 2019, a period during which he underwent neurosurgery as well as plastic surgery by our Specialist Doctors.

Both surgical operations were very successful and doctors discharged the patient on 7 May 2019 after concluding that the patient was stable enough to go home.

The pictures posted as having been taken after the anointed healing are actually in keeping with his state of discharge on 7 May 2019 . We therefore find claims that the hospital failed to treat this patient but was healed by a prophet, to be highly misleading and likely to derail efforts of encouraging health seeking behaviors among fellow Zimbabweans.

This demoralizes clinical staff who go out of their way to give their best of knowledge and skill in serving their patients. Such deceptive articles are likely to cause unnecessary public despondence in the health delivery system and may cause unnecessary loss of life.

We wish to give credit to the hospital staff and to the neurosurgical and plastics teams for the job well-done.

It is evidently clear that the patient went to the prophet after the specialist doctors had successfully done the surgical operations.

The hospital is actually in custody of Mr Peter Manganda’s medical records and he is expected to be reviewed by the same specialists who are still determined to see their valued patient to full recovery.

Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals would like to advise members of the public that, while it is important to uphold one’s religious beliefs, it is also very important to acknowledge the great work being done by our esteemed medical staff.