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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Bulawayo Metropolitan Provincial Medical Director (PMD), Dr Welcome Mlilo, has dismissed as misleading a video currently making rounds on social media of a 27-year-old woman, Cleopatra Ncube, from Cowdry Park in Bulawayo who claims to have developed an adverse reaction to COVID-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n

The woman alleged that her fingers and lower limbs dried up soon after getting jabbed with the Sinovac, a Chinese manufactured vaccine being administered in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

According to the viral video, Cleopatra took the vaccine on 27 July 2021 when health officials were conducting inoculations in her neighbourhood leading to her falling sick soon afterwards.<\/p>\n

Her condition, according to the video, deteriorated and she was taken to the hospital three days later where she was then admitted for two weeks.<\/p>\n

However, her condition worsened and the doctors have since told her that she should get her feet and legs amputated.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the video, Dr Mlilo said the girl in question had underlying health conditions which made her prone to dry gangrene.<\/p>\n

He said the gangrene is caused by the chronic condition that she has and not by the vaccine.<\/p>\n

Dr Mlilo urged the public to disregard the video and not fear the vaccines thinking they could cause gangrene. He said:<\/p>\n

I would like to set the record straight that we, first of all, have vaccinated over three million Zimbabweans using the vaccines that we have.<\/p>\n

Of those three million people which have received the vaccine, she is the only one who seems to have developed the symptoms that she claims are from the vaccines.<\/p>\n

The second thing I would like to clear is that I saw the patient personally, I saw her at United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) where she came and we admitted her to the ward.<\/p>\n

I am a surgeon and I was working at UBH as a general surgeon before I was appointed as the PMD, so I know this patient specifically and I know that she has got another chronic disease that we know predisposes her to the gangrene that she has.<\/p>\n

According to medical experts, dry gangrene may develop slowly and it occurs most commonly in people who have diabetes or blood vessel disease, such as atherosclerosis.<\/p>\n

Gangrene happens when tissues in one\u2019s body die after a loss of blood caused by illness, injury, or infection.<\/p>\n

It usually happens in extremities like fingers, toes, and limbs, but you can also get gangrene in your organs and muscles.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The Bulawayo Metropolitan Provincial Medical Director (PMD), Dr Welcome Mlilo, has dismissed as misleading a video currently making rounds on social media of a 27-year-old woman, Cleopatra Ncube, from Cowdry Park in Bulawayo who claims to have developed an adverse reaction to COVID-19 vaccination. 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