Eastern Cape judges refer damning ruling to NPA to consider prosecution
Eastern Cape MECs and heads of finance and health applied for an interdict to stop medical negligence claimants from attaching money in the department’s bank account.
The Eastern Cape MECs of finance and health, as well as the heads of these departments, applied for the interdict to stop dozens of claimants from recovering what they are owed in terms of their court orders. Most of the claimants are poor parents of children born with cerebral palsy due to negligence.
In particular, the applicants wanted to stop the claimants and their attorneys from attaching money in the Department of Health Paymaster General Account. “They are primarily indigent, rural citizens, the vast majority of claims arise from cerebral palsy inflicted on children through birth injuries, by negligence,” he said.
He said while the applicants denied any suggestion of mismanagement “even on their own version, the fiscal management of the department and indeed of treasury is cause for grave concern”. With regards to the proposal that the judgments be revised, the judge said the applicants had produced a schedule for each of the claimants, proposing initial payments and subsequent payments, some extending over ten years.
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