Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – 30th March, 2020: A Bulawayo patient is suing Netstar Ambulance Services for more than $300 000 after sustaining a femoral fracture when he fell off a stretcher bed while being taken out of an ambulance upon arrival at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH).

Los Angeles, US – 26th March, 2020: Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance and a registered nurse have been found liable for the 2014 death of a Redondo Beach man who died after a feeding tube was incorrectly inserted into his lungs instead of his stomach.

Gold Coast, Australia – 25th March, 2020: Less than a day later — and just hours after delivering her daughter Eleanor via emergency caesarean section — the young mother died of bacterial meningitis and mastoiditis because of what her widower John Petrak has alleged in a civil suit were failures at the Gold Coast University Hospital.

Harare, Zimbabwe – 23rd March, 2020: A Harare man has been awarded $20 000 compensation for taking wrong quantities of medicine after a pharmacist at a private clinic negligently mislabelled the sachets of the prescribed medication, resulting in him suffering acute kidney injuries.

Kent, UK – 21st March, 2020: A man who died from a life-threatening condition would have survived if doctors had performed a scan to identify it, an inquest heard.

Bristol, UK – 20th March, 2020: A grieving husband feels let down by Southmead Hospital after staff failed to administer a drug that could have saved his wife’s life on time. The health board has said it accepted the findings from the coroner – who said the woman’s death was contributed by neglect – and said it was determined to learn from the case.

Croydon, UK – 13th March, 2020: The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered nerve damage during her birth at Mayday Hospital, now Croydon University Hospital, in 2010.

Bermuda – 12th March, 2020: The Bermuda Hospitals Board will not appeal a judge’s decision to award $1.9 million in damages for medical negligence to a man whose wife died after her cancerous tumour was missed by an emergency room doctor.

Trinidad – 11th March, 2020: Legal action has been filed against the Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) by attorneys representing a woman who caught on fire while giving birth at the Sangre Grande Hospital in 2016.

Plymouth, UK – 6th March, 2020: A high-flying Plymouth student was left paraplegic after surgeons operated on the wrong vertabrae.

Peter (not his real name) was a young academic coming to the end of his PhD when he travelled out of the region for planned neurosurgery and suffered serious spinal injuries after it went wrong.