West Virginia, US – 5th April, 2018: A federal judge has awarded $7.1 million to a woman and her young daughter in a negligence lawsuit that alleged her child suffered irreversible brain damage as a result of improper treatment when she was born.

In a 26-page bench-trial order finding, Chief U.S. District Judge Gina Groh cited attending physician Sarah Hardy for failure to meet the "appropriate standard of care" in causing the alleged damages to Kayla Butts' newborn child in October 2013 in Martinsburg.

California, US – 5th April, 2018: An American woman is suing the fertility doctor her parents turned to for help to conceive after a DNA test revealed he allegedly used his own sperm to impregnate her mother.

Kelli Rowlette, now 36 and living in Washington DC, discovered Dr Gerald E. Mortimer was her biological father through a popular genealogy website, The Daily Beast reports.

Cyprus – 5th April, 2018: The Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of a 46-year-old man, awarding him in total some €640,000 in compensation on the grounds of medical negligence on the part of the state health services.

The man had sued the state, but the Nicosia district court had ruled against him. He then appealed the decision with the Supreme Court, which reversed the prior ruling.

Le Nga, Vietnam – 19th April, 2018: Vietnamese hospitals have been hiring extra security guards and organizing martial arts training for doctors in the wake of a series of attacks on medical staff that have made headlines this month and sparked outrage.

Ulyanovsk, Russia – 11th April, 2018: In a horrific case of medical negligence, a woman being treated at a Russian hospital died after being accidentally given a fatal dose of formaldehyde used for embalming corpses instead of saline after an operation, CNN reported on 11 April. Formaldehyde is often used for embalming bodies.

Canberra, Australia – 17th April, 2018: Hospital staff in the state of Western Australia (WA) will soon receive stab-proof vests and panic alarms to provide them with extra protection from violent and drug affected patients.

Gangnam, South Korea – 23rd April, 2018: The doctor who performed a lipoma removal procedure on actress Han Ye-seul apologized for the botched operation in an interview uploaded to YouTube, Saturday.

Dr. Lee Ji-hyun of the Cha Medical Center in Gangnam admitted to damaging skin from the inside while he was removing the lipoma.

Nova Scotia, Canada – 25th April, 2018: Patients of a suspended Sheet Harbour family doctor say their community is in the midst of a health care crisis and they’re fed up waiting for the physician to be reinstated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia.