Harare City Council challenges anyone with information on council officials at Wilkins Hospital who demanded money and equipment from the Makamba family. We state categorically that our staff never made any such demands and that they did all they could to save Zororo‘s life.

The Mayor, cllrs and management join the Makamba family in mourning Zororo. One life lost is too many. We however feel there are desktop commentators with no idea what the inside of Wilkins looks like who are commenting based on false information.

Ladies and gentlemen lets focus our energies on what we can do as a nation to manage the further spread of COVID -19. Name calling and pouring out anger will just keep us in one place. Together we will perish if we do not proffer solutions.

Councillor Jacob Mafume chipped in as the Harare City Council Human Resources Committee chairperson saying Wilkins Hospital had a full staff complement.

As the chair of Human Resources , I can confirm ,the staff are there , and they are working ,reporting for duty & we thank them for that .It is a difficult time for them.They have been trained and are training other towns &government departments.They need support and equipment.

We take the criticism with the good faith it has been made .Any loss of life regrettable and we need to pull together to fix what needs to be fixed at Wilkins and other center across the country.We need equipment sooner rather later.