{"id":37072,"date":"2023-02-17T05:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=37072"},"modified":"2023-02-17T05:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:45:04","slug":"high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=37072","title":{"rendered":"HIGH COURT JUDGMENT: Eastern Cape Health Department wins significant legal victory against medico-legal claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade, ballooning medico-legal claims, now at close to R40-billion, have been a catastrophe for the Eastern Cape Health Department. Faced with a double-edged sword of having to pay a significant part of a diminishing budget in damages and the subsequent decimation of services because the department had no money&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2023-02-15-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade, ballooning medico-legal claims, now at close to R40-billion, have been a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims.jpg",570,333,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims-300x175.jpg",300,175,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims.jpg",570,333,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims.jpg",570,333,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims.jpg",570,333,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims.jpg",570,333,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims.jpg",570,333,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims.jpg",570,333,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/37072-high-court-judgment-eastern-cape-health-department-wins-significant-legal-victory-against-medico-legal-claims.jpg",570,333,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}