FOCUS: MEDICO-LEGAL
Teetering emergency services add to medico-legal woes
South Africa's severe shortage of ambulances and urgent care beds at hospitals, resulting in emergency medical services buckling under the pressure, are putting lives at risk and leading to an escalation in medico-legal cases.
Law firm DSC Attorneys says it has seen an uptick in cases it deals with related to ambulance delays, where a suitably-equipped EMS could have prevented severe injury or death, Business Tech reports.
It noted that national EMS standards recommend one ambulance per 10 000 people, yet...