A terrible reality of medical malpractice is that active intervention after the event is often too late and even if the claimant succeeds in claiming money, damages can never be rectified.
Inevitable deaths are millions of taxpayers
South Africa is not alone in the fight against medical malpractice and negligence. According to recently published figures in Italy, nearly 6% of deaths may be due to medical malpractice or simple inefficiency. This means that more Italians die unnecessarily in the hands of healthcare workers than car accidents, heart attacks, cancer forms.
These avoidable deaths are paid to Italian taxpayers every year in the region of 10 billion euros, which is effectively 1% of the gross domestic profit.
Penile cutting
As approaching the house, South African men joined the group of other victims in the world who were fined, because they were cut by mistake or were not diagnosed properly and were not mentioned on time on an expert It was.
This time, health care workers at Bophelong Hospital in Mafiken did not introduce the victims to the urologist, but instead absented his life. That man successfully claimed R465 000 for "incident".
Negligence leads to permanent brain damage
Another story of fear that caused the biggest medical malpractice case in the country at the time was the story of an infant who injured the brain forever after a relatively minor operation due to negligence.
The anesthesiologist failed the examination of the infant two and half months before surgery and could not unexpectedly detect mild cardiac defects unexpectedly. As a result, the oxygen level during the procedure was reduced, resulting in permanent brain injury. Her parents requested a George's clinic and three doctors engaged in surgery for 100 million rupees.
A wrong cotton swab causes unbearable complications
Women hospitalized for normal abdominal surgery sued Johannesburg hospital for R1.3 million lawsuits. Her wounds became septicemia shortly after discharge, and further investigations revealed that medical swabs remained in the abdominal cavity during surgery.
Apart from suffering from nervousness due to the pain associated with mistake, she has to undergo two more operations to arrange the damage caused by negligence, and then develops diabetes.
Quick medical malpractice shocker
o Men who were hospitalized for brain tumor biopsy at Inkosi Albert Luthuli hospital in Durban, developed gangrene with both thumb and index finger, as the nursing staff could not monitor the drip insufficiently. He is the current minister of health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang,
o The mother successfully claimed R 78000 from the health department after the newborn was exchanged with another baby after the caesarean section.
o Women hospitalized for regular scar tissue examination claim R510 000 from the Minister for unjust hysterectomy.
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