UZ Student Dies After Lab Accident | LATEST
24 March 2017
Ray Nkosi | A University of Zimbabwe student Emmanuel Tsuro has died after an accident on Monday in which he was burnt while carrying out a Laboratory experiment.
Student leader Liberty Nhengu informed ZimEye, “Emmanuel was a 3rd year student doing Medlab on attachment at Premier…on Monday he was performing a ZN stain in an environment that one performed Gram stain so Acetone was in the air and during flaming he flamed.”
Emmanuel sustained 60% burn injuries was admitted at Parirenyatwa hospital.
” The head of medlab department just informed us and his body not yet in the mortuary,” said Nhengu. More to follow on Emmanuel’s identity as this story develops.
rest in peace pal. now i understand that love is the only thing we take with us when we die, we all miss you
And you actually took me seriously! SMH
BS I say how much acetone can be in the air after gram stain.
i think Jekanyika meant the broken english
Acetone is a chemical that is used for example in the lab by scientists to carry out experiments e.g gram stain that is being talked about. However this chemical is highly volatile. kana ndichiti volatile i mean kuti it changes rapidly from liquid form to gaseous form if atmospheric pressure decreases. for example the gas we use in our homes for cooking, in that compressed can or canister or tank, it is in liquid form but if the valve is opened it changes to gaseous state and if that tank is left open for long and someone lights up match sticks a fire will start in the environment particularly burning everything. So that is what happened, the acetone i think was left open and it escaped into the environmemt and when emmmanuel was carrying out his experiment which also requires one to use a flame in the process, a fire then started. I hope you understand.
May His soul rest in peace
may your soul rest in eternal piece my friend
RIP
Ngavanyore neShona
I’m also trying to understand what the heck the report is saying.
Can someone explain what happened in English? I would really appreciate. Thanks