A Westville woman, All Nazli Hassan, left confined to a wheelchair after a back operation, is suing Dr Sameer Nadvi, president of the Society of Neurosurgeons of SA, for R19.9m. The [s]Sunday Tribune[/s] reports that according to a combined summons filed in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, during the operation Hassan sustained brain-spinal fluid leak, acute spinal shock and a traumatic injury to the spinal chord.
Her lawyer said action was instituted on various grounds of negligence, which were based on the opinions of two independent neurosurgeons and a professor of spinal and orthopaedic surgery. Nadvi’s lawyer denied her client had been negligent, and said she was in the final stages of working out a settlement for Hassan.
[link url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/woman-in-wheelchair-after-failed-op-1.1707219#.U6fY8pSSzE0]Full Sunday Tribune report[/link]