Trainee doctor dies while attending to patients

A TRAINEE doctor collapsed and died while attending to patients at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo.

Perfect Dondo (25), a National University of Science and Technology (Nust) part five medical student, was allegedly resuscitated twice before eventually dying hours after the incident which happened on Wednesday afternoon.

Dondo, who lived in Cowdray Park suburb, was also a nephew to Sister Sithembiso Mazivisa, a nurse at the Nust clinic.

Nust Director of Marketing and Communications Mr Felix Moyo said Dondo collapsed and died while doing rounds with other doctors.

"I received sad news from Mpilo (Central) Hospital on Wednesday afternoon that our student had died. He collapsed for the first time and they resuscitated him and he came around. After a few minutes, he collapsed again. They resuscitated him for the second time but he eventually died," said Mr Moyo.

In September this year, a second year medicine student at Nust collapsed and died while jogging with his friend in the morning.

Bryan Ncube was jogging along Selous Avenue in North End suburb with his colleague Andile Dube,  a third-year student in the same faculty, when tragedy struck.

At the time, Mr Moyo described the incident as shocking, saying Ncube was one of the most intelligent students in the country.