Bhekikisa Centre for Health Journalism has again run an article about the huge medical negligence claims against the state. And again it's been picked up by other media, Daily Maverick and New24 among them. President Cyril Ramaphosa tasked the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) to investigate the large medical negligence claims against provincial health departments in the country. The investigation, which is not yet complete, is concentrating on alleged fictitious medical claims including by patients who never made them. The health department has long complained negligence claims are the result of touting by lawyers and the legal profession is abusing the system. But seldom if ever has it admitted they're the result of a dysfunctional and broken public health system. Bhekikisa accepted government's tendentious claim it's mostly the result of "dodgy lawyers", "touting" and allegedly "stolen medical records". This makes me really angry. Now...
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