SOWETAN | Heal our healthcare
Money could have been used better
Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, the largest health-care institution in the southern hemisphere, is again in the news for the wrong reasons. Yesterday we reported that the Soweto hospital now has to pay a few million rand short of R1bn in claims lodged against it for alleged medical negligence over the past four years.
The news came to light in a written answer by the department of health to questions in the Gauteng provincial legislature. The department said 50 medical negligence claims totaling R992m had been filed against the Bara maternity unit in the past four years...
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