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Medico-legal claims judgment significant for department and claimants

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An important judgment handed down at the Constitutional Court last week is likely to have huge implications for the department of health and all those who have suffered at the hands of negligent health-care workers.
We all know about the medico-legal claims saga that has dogged the health department, particularly in the Eastern Cape, for several years now.
As a result of medical negligence, the department has forked out billions of rand in claims.
This, naturally, had an impact on its ability to deliver good service to the public.
The situation has become so dire that the Eastern Cape health department will fork out more on medico-legal claim payments R4.4bn in the current financial year than on the delivery of health-care services which is budgeted at 3.4bn. ....

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Big payouts no longer only remedy for medical bungles

Big payouts no longer only remedy for medical bungles
Court ruling makes provision of physical items or public medical assistance possible
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By Raahil Sain - 12 April 2021
Courts in SA will now have the scope to consider ordering alternative compensation instead of one lump-sum payment to those injured as a result of medical negligence.
This means the courts may rule that the health department provide physical items or public medical assistance in the future, instead of money, should it be required by the victims.
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