Medico-Legal
State must pay 'moonlighting' nurses contract
Government 'ineptitude' was the cause of KZN Health hiring some of its own striking nurses who were moonlighting for a recruitment agency contracted to assist during the crisis, says an IOL report.Judge: 'Therapeutic sterilisation … not eugenics'
A British mother-of-six with learning disabilities can be sterilised, a judge has ruled. Health authority and social services bosses had asked him to authorise forced entry into the woman’s home, the use of 'necessary restraint' and sterilisation, at a hearing in the Court of Protection – where issues relating to sick and vulnerable people are examined.First UK FGM case collapses
British prosecutors have been accused of pursuing a ‘show trial’ after a National Health Service (NHS) doctor facing a landmark female genital mutilation case (FGM) was acquitted in less than half an hour, reports The Daily Telegraph.Basson allowed to apply to sack HPCSA chair
The Pretoria High Court has granted an application by Apartheid-era chemical weapons expert Dr Wouter Basson to prohibit the continued involvement of the chair of his ongoing Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) sentencing inquiry, reports Health-e.