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Bulawayo Bureau
PROMINENT Bulawayo physician Dr Cherifa Sururu succumbed to Covid-19 at Mater Dei Hospital on Wednesday night.
Dr Sururu, who had several surgeries across Bulawayo and was one of the pioneers in Zimbabwe to major in family medicine, studied at the University of Zimbabwe.
His mentor, Mpilo Central Hospital acting chief executive officer Professor Solwayo Ngwenya said the medical fraternity had lost a dedicated hard worker who will be missed by many families in Bulawayo.
“I had known him for quite some time, first as a junior at medical school in Harare, then he came to Mpilo to do his postgraduate rotations and was my student. He was mentored here at Mpilo until he became a specialist family physician some years ago and we are proud to say he worked so hard to save many lives,” said Prof Ngwenya.
Dr Sururu’s partner in many of his philanthropic works, Mr Emmanuel Ndlovu, said he had recently partnered the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to implement some of his projects which showed his love for family life and young people.
“Dr Sururu was very involved in philanthropic work through one of his many organisations called Green Crescent Zimbabwe where him and other doctors partnered to work on a schools programme in partnership with the Ministry of Education,” said Mr Ndlovu. “Their primary work was to enable the career guidance and counselling department to empower schools on issues to do addictions, drug and substance, abuse, teenage pregnancies and suicidal tendencies. The programme was launched last year in December and we are saddened as he won’t live to see the fruits of his labour.”
Dr Sururu’s daughter, Aisha could not comment on her father’s death, only saying the family was still in a difficult situation as they were just coming from burying him.
Dr Sururu’s business administrator Mr Asidi Chibwana also said he could not immediately comment.
“Get in touch with me tomorrow because there are a lot of things that he was doing. If I try to list them now, I can miss out a lot because there were a lot of projects that he was involved in,” said Mr Chibwana.
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