Dear Editor
Good afternoon fellow parents. Just to share my story of what happened to my son at Musengezi school. He got sick on 1 March and advised the boarding master. The following day 2 March he was given some pills but no change. He got worse and was no longer able to eat anything or even walk.
Fellow pupils would bring him food from the dining hall and he could not eat. Aibva arutsa. He got serious on 3 march and spent whole day alone and sleeping mudom. No boarding master or teacher visited him. On the 4th of March it got so serious that it took the courage of one pupil to alert the deputy head bypassing the boarding master.
The deputy head later visited my son and saw the gravity of the situation and immediately called us around 6pm. We immediately left harare for msengezi and to the shock of my life when we arrived he had to be carried to the vehicle by two dom mates and he was in a bad state. I immediately hit the road but a km into our journey he started groaning in pain. He could not withstand the bumps on the road and my wife had to carry him on a lap to try to alleviate but all in vain.
I had to travel at 20km/hr from musengezi to chikambi tarred rd. We eventually arrived at Michael Gelfund clinic where he was promptly attended to and booked for an OP the following morning. It was discovered that his appendix and some internal organs had gone so bad that had we delayed further we could have lost him.
I don’t understand why the boarding master did NOT check on my son when he was informed that he was bed ridden
It took 3 days for us to be informed of the sickness of our son, when he was in a serious condition.
After we took him to hospital NOBODY from the school followed up to check on him, not even a phone call for a WHOLE month when he was recuperating at home. It against this background that I went to the school on Monday and requested for a transfer. They didn’t even bother to ask his condition or to even ask why I was asking for a transfer. I collected his remaining stuff(much of it had been stolen) and we left. Goodbye to you all and good luck at Musengezi high.
