Most people only look towards a doctor for their medical wellbeing. During your time spent in hospital it will be the nurses taking care of you day and night until you are healthy enough to be discharged from their services. It is for this very reason that nursing has been seen as a noble cause for many years. Unfortunately though, cases do appear where complaints against nurses had to be made.

If you consider the fact that approximately 88% of the South African population has to be catered for by the public hospitals and clinics, congestion is the main problem presented in this sector of medical care. Due to the current economic crisis this number is growing on a daily basis, which means that most of the South African public hospitals are understaffed and the staff overworked. This leads to nurses not being able to properly care for patients, even if they wanted to, because of the time constraint and lack of resources. This in turn contributes to the number of medical negligence occurring more frequently where patients suffer due to the lack of proper care.

There is however a misconception that almost all cases of complaints against nurses occur only in the public sector. Even though nurses working in the private clinics and hospitals work in better environments, and generally also receive better salaries, there has been a number of situations that called upon patients lodging complaints against nurses.

Regardless of where you have been treated in the private or public sector, if you have cause to lodge complaints against nurses, please feel free to contact Adele van der Walt Attorneys. We have ample experience in dealing with cases where patients have received inadequate medical care and their lives were thus adversely affected by it. With our expertise we will advise youon your matter.

For more information on this subject, please give us a call at 012 460 3668 (SA)
or e-mail us at linda@avdw.co.za