Lungu Did Not Die from Surgical Complications – Dr. Sishuwa
Prominent historian Dr. Sishuwa Sishuwa has clarified that former president Edgar Lungu did not die from complications related to surgery, as some public speculation has suggested.
Dr. Sishuwa explained that Lungu had initially been cleared to return to Zambia by a team of doctors. However, shortly after, another hospital recommended a minor surgical procedure.
“The operation was conducted on a Saturday, lasted nearly seven hours, and was successful,” Dr. Sishuwa said. “There were no complications during the surgery itself.”
According to him, the late president later developed an infection that affected his breathing, which ultimately led to his death. The origin of the infection remains unclear.
“It’s not known how he contracted the infection,” Sishuwa noted. “But it’s unlikely to have come from any visitors, as he had none during the small window of vulnerability following the procedure.”
Dr. Sishuwa’s remarks appear aimed at dispelling misinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding Lungu’s death, which has become the subject of intense public interest and political tension.
You and Nakachinda seem to know something. There will come a time when you will be asked to prove it. This drama is far from over. I foresee a situation were Edgar’s body will be exhumed for further tests if not done now.
If he died shortly after the operation, then the operation was not successful. You are not saying what infection he got. I cannot figure out what you are trying to get at. someone can die 24 hours, even 48 hours after an operation, and it can be due to the operation.
How can a ” minor” operation take 7 hours?
Microscopic lifeforms are, unfortunately, just that, microscopic. We cannot detect their presence with our naked eyes. We are therefore very vulnerable to harmful microscopic creatures. It’s our natural defence system or immunity that can fight them.
And how do you know this??????
Lungu died due to his rotten liver due to over drinking and being drunk most of the time.
Visionless chikala is dead, hallelujah
Maybe it is true that ECL was murdered so that someone could access his body parts and become immortal. The question is, who believes in witchcraft that much in Zambia? Who is pushing the hardest to access the body? Who hated ECL the most?
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Bo brother Sishua, death is not always acceptable because it takes the life of a beloved one and even dependable.Some illnesses when they are suffered fo long can cause some Cancer.If we pick for example achalasia, a rare esophageal motility disorder, can cause several types of symptoms because food and liquids may not pass properly to the stomach which can lead to regurgitation and aspiration.Therefore symptoms like cough, shortness of breath, wheezing of breath and also aspiration pneumonia may occur and respiratory failure may require ventilators.What may happen is undigested food and liquids can be regurgitated into the airways and irritation may occur with aspiration pneumonia.And in some cases the esophagus can become bigger that it presses on the tracheal leading to breathing difficulties and may cause breathing difficulties.They say it is rare but esophageal obstruction due to achalasia can lead to acute obstruction.The surgery aspect is usually safe though for those that have been operated upon more times may not be as safe.In short the throat is not as safe when operated on because the air channels to the lungs pass through the same .The accidents due to surgery do occur though very rare especially when done by specialized surgeons.Death does occur to even people who have not complained of any illness.God gave us life when time comes life is gotten from us.Which makes us feel bad and we fail to accept it.Any illness may cause unexpected health challenges that can lead to death.Speculations do happen when someone dies which is unfortunate really.It must not be like that it is very sad. That’s what I can say basically because iam not a doctor.This is just basic knowledge which can help us make some imagination as we wonder why it has happened that way but not to be used for politics.And one can get sick and even die.
It makes a mockery of Lungu’s decision making! How can he be cleared by a clinic that was treating him, and believed he was okay by your article accept to go for an operation at another clinic. Are you saying he was attending 2 clinics for the same problem one as a Zambian and another one as a Zimbabwean and ended up dying as a Zimbabwean? Stop posting rubbish stories full of lies. The issue is you can’t answer follow up questions from your story.
This is the problem of PF where everyone is a spokesperson. Imagine, Sishuwa Sishuwa is neither a lawyer nor a medical doctor and yet he is the one in the forefront to make clarifications. How can a minor operation take 7 hours? Seven hours is from 8 hrs to about 15 hours and you call that a minor operation. What were Doctors doing in the theatre all that time? Because a minor operation would take less than an hour or an hour. Please stop commenting on things that you don’t know, at times mulasamwa sana trying to embarrass our President and his government in a foreign country. You are saying he died of an infection and yet your friend was saying that he was poisoned. Let’s hope he has an autopsy report to substantiate his claims, otherwise …..
What Zambians want to know now is not the cause of death but a consensus between the family and the Zambian government so that Lungu is given a befitting send off as the former president of this country. Some of you are just politicking and interfering in this matter because you are neither in government nor part of Lungu’s family. Please leave the family and the government to do the right thing, Lungu belonged to the family and to the nation and not to PF, you are just bringing more confusion.
Citizen, you are right 7 hours operation is not minor, imagine kidney transplant takes 2 to 4 hours and it involves a lot of joining vessels.Now the operation of 7 hours is crucial.What kind of anaesthesia was used in the 7 hours for the so called minor operation Mr Sishua is talking about? For the kidney transplant local anaesthesia is used between 2 to 4 hours using local anaesthesia meaning a specific part of the body is treated medically to stop pain signal to be transferred to the brain and the patient is operated on while he is awake.Now 7 hours ? Bo Sishua calls it minor.Meaning Mr Sishua, given a good stable car he can drive from Lusaka to Mongu a time that the car can cover for the journey one is on operation table? And he says minor operation.