September 23rd, 2020The tragic death of Dr Abdulhay Munshi's death has brought into sharp focus how the law around culpable homicide is being applied to healthcare professionals, writes Dr...
July 22nd, 2020Obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Danie van der Walt, found guilty in 2017 of culpable homicide in connection with the death of a patient and controversially sentenced...
While the announcement that the Health Professions Council of SA would consider complaints against doctors in the context of the "very challenging" circumstances of...
January 22nd, 2020
Graham Howarth and Tony Behrman - Photo credits - MPS
Medical Protection's Graham Howarth, head of medical services (SA) and Tony Behrman, business consultant...
The State has until September to finalise its case in the trial of Durban dentist Anwer Jeewa who faces a charge of culpable homicide following the death of a Canadian...Medico-Legal
A specialist physician has been sentenced to six years imprisonment – suspended for five years – for culpable homicide after he bungled a procedure on a patient....Medico-Legal
A Durban dentist has been arrested following the death of a Canadian man at an unlicensed facility for treating drug addiction.
In early November, a 26-year-old...
August 9th, 2017Witbank gynaecologist Dr Danie van der Walt has been sentenced to five years for culpable homicide after he grossly neglected his patient who later died in the Life...
The Democratic Alliance has failed to lay charges of culpable homicide against provincial and national health department heads at the Point Police Station in Durban,...
March 23rd, 2016
Two Pretoria surgeons, Professor Letlhogela Ntlhe and Dr Mpho Sandamela, who performed two procedures to remove a tumour on a 63-year-old man who died on the operating...
