“Unwarranted”, “unacceptable” and “irresponsible” were just some of the adjectives used by judges of the Eastern Cape High Court (Makhanda) to descirber the...Weekly Roundup
Lauded by some for bringing stability to the department and slated by his critics for leaving it behind in tatters, Daily Maverick reports one of the longest-serving...South Africa
KZN Health has welcomed a controversial recent Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) ruling that Gauteng Health will no longer have to fork out large cash sums for...SA Provincial Health
Limpopo Health is to terminate the contracts of more than 150 community service doctors and other professionals at the end of the month because of dire financial...Medico-Legal
The Eastern Cape provincial government has set aside R3.2m to establish a litigation unit within Premier Oscar Mabuyane’s office in a move it hopes will help curb...Medico-Legal
Eastern Cape Health is facing more than R20bn in medico-legal claims. City Press reports that this was according to Sizwe Kupelo, provincial health spokesperson, who...
November 6th, 2019
The SA Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Sasog) is contemplating seeking a law reform to have medical litigation risk lowered, spokesperson Heidi...
Eastern Cape Health is to approach the Constitutional Court for a ruling on whether it should pay multi-billion-rand medico-legal claims at the expense of funding health...Medico-Legal
An attempt by the state to exclude attorney Zuko Noxuba from acting in a medico-claim because he was arrested earlier this year for allegedly fraudulent medico-legal...Medico-Legal
It’s R23bn and counting – City Press reports that that is the amount in medico-legal claims the Eastern Cape faces, has racked up in the past 20 years. Although some...