HPCSA: We are bound by the laws of the country, every individual is entitled to a fair and speedy trial

Mediclinic Southern Africa has defended its decision to appoint controversial apartheid-era chemical warfare expert and medical doctor, Wouter Basson, as a cardiologist. This after the private hospital group was slammed on Twitter for the appointment at its Durbanville facility in the Western Cape. Basson, dubbed South Africa’s “Dr Death”, was found guilty in December 2013 of unethical misconduct by the disciplinary panel of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) for his role as the head of the apartheid government’s secret chemical and biological warfare programme in the 1980s and 1990s‚ known as Project Coast.