Zimbabwean Celebrity Tinopona Katsande Alleges "Genocide" in Hospitals Amid Health Crisis

Zimbabwean media personality and actress Tinopona Katsande has raised alarm over what she describes as a silent "genocide" taking place in the country's hospitals. In a heartfelt post shared on her Facebook page, Katsande expressed deep dismay at the worsening healthcare situation, citing the increasing number of deaths due to lack of medical supplies, poor patient care, and systemic neglect.

A cancer survivor herself, Katsande's words carry the weight of personal experience with Zimbabwe’s fragile healthcare system. She described heartbreaking scenes of patients left unattended, essential medicines being unavailable, and preventable deaths occurring daily. "This is not just negligence — this is genocide," she wrote. "Our people are dying not because they should, but because the system is broken beyond measure."

Katsande’s comments have sparked widespread discussion among Zimbabweans both at home and abroad, many of whom echoed her concerns about the country's healthcare collapse. Years of economic hardship, political instability, and underfunding have left Zimbabwe's health sector in critical condition, with many hospitals operating without basic supplies like gloves, syringes, and even clean water.

As someone who battled and overcame cancer, Katsande emphasized the urgency of reforming the healthcare system, warning that many more lives will be needlessly lost if immediate action is not taken.

below is the post

Listen, SOMETHINGS GOT TO GIVE!! I dare say it's like some kind of genocide zvirikuitika muma gvt hospitals edu . Yes INSAID IT . please don't come at me with threats and scares bla bla KUINBOX kwangu because handisikunyepa ba. Our family members, colleagues and even foes are dying without a second blink .

GUYS USINA MARI YEKUZVITENGERA MISHONGA KU GVT HOSPITAL , even down to the actual needle for the injection at some hospitals 💉 ~ 9 out of 10 , unofa because washaya rubatsiro NOT BECAUSE . " MWARI AITA KUDA KWAKE " 😡😈🤬

Hamuna mishonga , hamuna mibhedha , the hospital staff gives different or inadequate information or diagnosis about a patient ( pano to ita confusion pachavo because vanenge vangori tuzu tuzi also not knowing how to tell a desperate patient

" we know what needs to be done but sorry we can't help , we don't have what we need to save you " basically

Guys, people are being discharged kuti wazviwonere ... haaaa nooo mhani . Izvi hazvisikuita izvi 🤬😡😈🤬

A couple of days ago , we buried baby Ropa coming from kuGomo , after what I call, sheer negligence from ma doctor ne ma nurse nema confusion avo 😡. No medicines ku hospital kwacho . Then kwaMutoko, a lower 6 student passed ku hospital because.she had an asthma attack and chipatara CHESE did not have oxygen / nebulizer what what kana even ka asthma pump kaye kaunotenga in any pharmacy to help people with asthma to breathe. ZERO , DENG, ZILTCH. NADA, PARIBE , NOTHING to save a life of a 16 year old girl with asthma

Ukuwo ma newspaper anoti don't worry 6 months supply of ARVS in the country availed, 2 months later vakuti, 2months supply available meaning 6 months supply was a hoax??? Then to top it off - maclinic hobo are saying HAPANA MAPIRITSI ACHO ANYWAY 😱😱😱😱🤬. WEDUWEEEE 😭😭😭😭😭

I'm soooo so angry 😠 😡.... no accountability for this NATIONAL DISASTER eating me worse than the cancer was 😭😭😭😭😭😭....

Oooo yaaaaah.... forgive me. Ini ndaive murwerere (cancer survior )so handisikutaura from my a** . This sh*t is real

KANA USINA BHEGHI MU ZIMBABWE and you get ill.to require hospital attention - you better just choose you coffin now- wega zvako because haaa imhamhelodi chaiyo . Ehe , ndazvitaura ....

....right... off to bury Mai Kandice from Mabvuku who passed after yesterday's visiting hour vakamirira ropa because ku gvt hakuna ropa racho that would have saved here. She was anemic . Vaito famba vachirwara - she didn't know 😢

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Ndapedza -

As you were maZimbabwean....as you were ... ngatingo ramba tichti "zvakawoma " , tochema to tarisa kuside and life goes on because shuwa, ndiwe doctor here - no saka 🤷🏽‍♀️