An East London family found out a week after the funeral of a family member that they had buried a stranger.The bungle was caused by Frere Hospital mortuary workers.This is a second Eastern Cape hospital in the news for such a mistake in less than a month."I received a phone call from the Frere Hospital…
A Uitenage family had to organise two funerals in the space of four days after discovering that they had buried a stranger.The bungle was allegedly caused by Uitenage hospital mortuary workers after the name tags of the bodies were switched.The hospital refused to allow the widow of the one of the men to view the…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have