Diabetes shouldn't be lethal, but it is in this country. It kills more people than TB, HIV and malaria combined. And yet it’s a slow car crash with long-term complications showing up many years down the line. If only medical aids would talk to us.
Our next attempt was to make it impossible for medical aids to ignore us by getting all type 1 members to email them on the same day at the same time. An email bombardment! Surely that would get attention?And so we decided to take it to a lawyer.
How could anyone possibly read these testimonials, along with clinical evidence and feedback from South Africa’s top diabetes specialists, and reject this claim? The trouble, of course, is that we’re talking about quality of life here. And quality of life is not a measurable line on a spreadsheet. Diabetes shouldn’t be lethal, but it is, in this country . It kills more people than TB, HIV and malaria combined. And yet it’s a slow car crash – with long-term complications showing up many years down the line.
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