By Jane Mlambo| Medical doctors today met President Emmerson Mnangagwa and told him to upscale Covid-19 testing amid fears more people could have died of the deadly disease.

The doctors represented by Dr Samukange also told Mnangagwa to establish more testing centres across the country and dump the use of one centre which has seen results taking long to come.

A case in point is the Bulawayo man whose test results only came out three days after his death in a case that exposed the shambolic nature of Zimbabwe’s preparedness to fight the pandemic.

Posting on Twitter, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information Nick Mangwana said the medical doctors also told Mnangagwa to institute rapid testing to ensure results come out early as compared to the current situation

“Dr Samukange speaks to HE President @edmnangagwa on behalf of Senior Doctors. He talked of the need to test more, results to come out early, rapid testing and the decetralisation of testing,” said Mangwana.