{"id":42872,"date":"2024-08-19T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/women-injured-by-vaginal-mesh-in-england-get-payout\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:06:11","slug":"women-injured-by-vaginal-mesh-in-england-get-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=42872","title":{"rendered":"Women injured by vaginal mesh in England get payout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisa Lunt, partner at law firm Pogust Goodhead, which led the actions on behalf of the women, said those implanted with transvaginal mesh had suffered years of chronic pain and suffering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she said lots of women had missed out on payouts because of a deadline to claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hundreds of women were prevented from making a claim due to strict 10-year time limits that are in force from the date that the product was manufactured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It\u2019s about time that the government took action to increase the time limits,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kath Sansom, from campaign group Sling the Mesh, said that it was &#8220;groundbreaking&#8221; to achieve the successful group action, but it would only benefit a fraction of women harmed by the mesh products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She believes 40,000 women could be affected by mesh complications &#8211; about 10 to 20% of those given mesh implants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has already been a successful group action in Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clylng1dqx2o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Lunt, partner at law firm Pogust Goodhead, which led the actions on behalf of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[866,2063,2345,2346,2344,723],"class_list":["post-42872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-england","tag-injured","tag-mesh","tag-payout","tag-vaginal","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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