1 in 5 Londoners affected by negligent medical treatment
November - 2018, Posted ON November 02, 2018

London, UK – 2nd November, 2018: A new report has found that 1 in 5 Londoners have been personally impacted by medical negligence, or have a close friend or family who have.

 

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Doctor ordered to pay $20 000 damages over negligence
November - 2018, Posted ON November 19, 2018

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – 19th November, 2018: A Mutare farmer who lost his wife due to medical negligence has been awarded $20 000 in damages after an eight-year legal battle. The High Court last week ordered Dr Miriam Kanyenze to pay Mr James Makunura after his wife of 40 years died owing to flawed medical treatment. 

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German nurse admits playing ‘God’ and MURDERING 100 patients by giving them heart attacks
November - 2018, Posted ON October 30, 2018

Germany – 30th October, 2018: Niels Hoegel is already serving a life sentence for murdering two patients and has been in court to answer charges that he killed many more.

Hoegel, 41, was sentenced to life behind bars in 2015 for murdering two patients by giving them an overdose.

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Hospital faces lawsuit over acid-attack victim
November - 2018, Posted ON November 21, 2018

Thailand – 21st November, 2018: The Health Service Support Department (HSSD) will sue Praram 2 Hospital over its handling of an acid-attack victim who passed away on November 9 shortly after seeking its services.

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Hospital probes death of infant
November - 2018, Posted ON November 11, 2018

Male, Maldives – 11th November, 2018: The ADK private hospital in Malé has launched an investigation into suspected negligence in the death of an infant.

The hospital was accused of negligence by the bereaved family after failure to perform a C-section and delays by the gynaecologist in attending to the pregnant mother, according to media reports.

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Hospital violence: We can reduce it
November - 2018, Posted ON November 19, 2018

Australia – 19th November, 2018: It was a regular day at work; nothing special, nothing out of the ordinary, the morning that Dr Michael Wong hurried through the sliding doors and into the foyer of the Western Hospital in Footscray, Victoria. A neurosurgeon, spinal surgeon and a full-time staff member of the public hospital, he was juggling an enormous workload and was ready to start his day.

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Lawsuit against Rockford hospital heads to trial 9 years later on little-used, challenging-to-prove claim
November - 2018, Posted ON November 10, 2018

Illinois, US – 10th November, 2018: Nine years after a Poplar Grove woman sued OSF HealthCare and a neurosurgeon — alleging the doctor operated on the wrong side of her body, leaving her disabled — the case is headed to trial later this month.

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New Mexico woman sues hospital for resuscitating her
November - 2018, Posted ON November 17, 2018

New Mexico, US – 17th November, 2018: A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights.

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Personal Injury Court refuses health board’s bid to remit medical negligence case to Court of Session
November - 2018, Posted ON November 01, 2018

Scotland – 1st November, 2018: A Scottish health board which is being sued by a patient for £1.5 million has had an application to remit the clinical negligence claim against it to the Court of Session dismissed.

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Stabbed doctor demands more security after surgeon's killer found guilty
November - 2018, Posted ON November 24, 2018

Australia – 24th November, 2018: It was a "normal day" when neurosurgeon Dr Michael Wong walked through the foyer doors of the Western Hospital in Footscray and was set upon by a mentally ill patient.

"I was stabbed everywhere; my chest, abdomen, arms, legs, head, hands," he told nine.com.au.

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Top court calls for fresh hearing in medical negligence case
November - 2018, Posted ON November 08, 2018

UAE – 8th November, 2018: The Federal Supreme Court has ordered for fresh hearing in the case of a hospital and its doctors who were convicted of medical negligence during the treatment of a child after birth and causing him blindness.

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US surgeon removes fully-functional kidney of a patient thinking that it's a Tumour
November - 2018, Posted ON November 24, 2018

Florida, US – 24th November, 2018: Medical negligence is something that we all have heard of. But this incident might lead any patient to think twice before visiting a hospital. In a bewildering incident, a doctor removed a woman’s entire kidney mistaking it to be a cancerous tumour.

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