New Zealand women have slammed a no-fault compensation scheme blocking them from suing mesh manufacturers

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated December 27 2019 - 3:48pm, first published 6:00am
Report: New Zealand pelvic mesh-injured women protest before a report's release on Thursday.
Report: New Zealand pelvic mesh-injured women protest before a report's release on Thursday.

THE New Zealand Government could tighten laws to improve medical device safety after a report on Thursday acknowledged health system failures that have left women with "confronting" pelvic mesh injuries, only weeks after Australian pelvic mesh victims won a landmark court case against Johnson & Johnson.

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