Staff Writer
HE late former President Robert Mugabe’s son Robert Jnr has reportedly been hospitalised in Singapore after his right lung collapsed.
The health condition is known as pneumothorax.
Pneumothorax, according to health literature, refers to a condition in which the space between the wall of the chest cavity and the lung is filled with air, causing all or a portion of the lung to collapse. Air usually enters this space, called the pleural space, through an injury to the chest wall or a hole in the lung.
Its cause may include cyanide poisoning, trauma to the chest cavity, a fractured rib, or trauma from a bullet or knife. Other causes may also include cigarette smoking, drug abuse and certain lung diseases.
Former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi yesterday tweeted: “It was always careless, too soon to trust your own fathers’ persecutors, cozy up to them with such reckless abandon and think you would be safe in such company. Preserve the family lineage and cut the political adolescence! We pray for wisdom.”
