{"id":204789,"date":"2025-08-16T03:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-when-governance-fails-people-die-who-should-be-held-accountable\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:32:50","slug":"zimbabwe-when-governance-fails-people-die-who-should-be-held-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-when-governance-fails-people-die-who-should-be-held-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: When Governance Fails, People Die &#8211; Who Should Be Held Accountable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em><em>Resuscitation mistakes are not just clinical errors &#8211; they are leadership failures that demand urgent action<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">&#8220;Action should be taken.&#8221; &#8211; Coroner Darren Stewart OBE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The tragic death of 74-year-old Kathleen Gregory at Beccles Care Home should haunt every health and social care leader in the UK. She choked on her lunch and was not resuscitated &#8211; the attending paramedic wrongly assumed she was not for resuscitation after misreading her ReSPECT form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The coroner&#8217;s Prevention of Future Deaths Report&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508150182.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resuscitation mistakes are not just clinical errors &#8211; they are leadership failures that demand urgent action &#8220;Action should be taken.&#8221; &#8211; Coroner Darren Stewart OBE The tragic death of 74-year-old Kathleen Gregory at Beccles Care Home should haunt every health and social care leader in the UK. She choked on her lunch and was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[23730,258,256,9028,9500,6866,7297,257,6321,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-204789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accountable","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-die","tag-fails","tag-governance","tag-held","tag-news","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}