Zimbabwe: Patient Vanishes From Hospital, Found Dead

5 December 2020

Mt Darwin — A 25-year-old woman suffering from severe depression and admitted to Mount Darwin District Hospital disappeared from her ward on October 20 and was found at Concession, some 136km away, two days later unconscious and with her hands tied.

The hospital did not report the patient was missing to relatives or the police until October 22; when the woman's aunt heard the news she rushed to Mt Darwin Police Station to make the initial missing person's report.

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