Browsing: medical negligence

The Mahikeng High Court has ruled that negligent foetal monitoring at Schweizer Reneke Hospital probably caused a child to suffer hypoxic ischaemic brain injury and cerebral palsy during birth in 2006.

A High Court ruling found repeated medical failures by North West Health left a woman infertile, permanently scarred and living with chronic pain.

A high risk pregnancy that required a caesarean section was instead allowed to proceed with a traumatic vaginal birth, leaving a mother severely injured and her child with a nerve injury.

After repeated hospital visits for a finger injury that would not heal, doctors failed to recognise a chronic pain condition. The High Court has now found the North West health department liable.

A North West mother who buried the wrong baby after a hospital mortuary mix up has lost her R500 000 civil claim, with the High Court ruling that grief and recurring headaches, without expert psychiatric evidence, do not amount to a compensable psychiatric injury in law.

The Eastern Cape must pay lump sum compensation to a child left severely brain injured after negligent care at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital, after judges rejected the province’s plan to replace damages with state provided treatment.

A R20 million birth injury payout will grow with interest after the High Court ruled the Northern Cape Health Department must pay from the settlement date and cannot reopen the costs fight.

A mother has secured the right to reopen her case in a protracted medical negligence trial after her child was…

The Mpumalanga High Court has awarded R540,000 in damages to a mother in a landmark cerebral palsy medical negligence case.