The late former President Robert Mugabe’s son Robert Jnr is reportedly to be in Singapore where he is hospitalised after his right lung collapsed.
Reports say Robert Jnr is suffering from a disease 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.
His illness comes months after he attended one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s by election campaign rallies in Epworth, which sent tongues wagging with people saying that he was putting his life in danger.
