Judge puts Gauteng Health MEC on spot

By Vuyo Mkize – 

Johannesburg – Why did the Gauteng Health MEC not interrogate the evidence of the department’s own medical expert witness on the urgency of why a patient needed an emergency caesarean?

Why was it necessary that a medical negligence matter go to trial if both medical experts for the defendant and plaintiff agreed that urgent intervention was needed?

And why should the taxpayers shoulder the burden of paying for costs incurred during a trial, instead of MEC Qedani Mahlangu footing the punitive costs herself?

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