Grey’s Anatomy honours Zororo Makamba

US TV medical drama Grey’s Anatomy has honoured the late Zimbabwean media entrepreneur Zororo Makamba.

At the end of season 17 episode five, they put up names of people who have lost their lives to Covid-19 in the real world.

In the episode, Dr. Bailey’s mother succumbs to Covid-19.

It is a touching tribute, a sobering moment.

“The inspiration for saying the names in the final voiceover was multifactorial,” said the episode’s writer and Grey’s Anatomy medical consultant, Zoanne Clack. “When my mom contracted and almost died of COVID, I was so mad that she might go down in history as one of the nameless, faceless ramifications of this disease. I was seeing how it was disproportionately affecting Black Americans, older Americans, and people who lived in assisted living.”

Makamba was the first recorded person in Zimbabwe to have died from complications related to Covid-19.