'At times I feel like I only consult with my doctor for the sake of getting a script, especially after the blood pressure stabilised.'
She considers herself lucky as her medical condition stabilised early on after she started treatment.
"Not only is doing this expensive as I have to pay a consultation fee of R450 to get the script, but it’s a bit of an inconvenience as I’m working full-time and it can be challenging to manage doctor appointments and work demands,” she said. A law expert from the University of Pretoria, Avi Barit, has warned that while technology has advanced in the past few years and saw the emergence of electronic wearable devices which could help doctors obtain important medical information on patients remotely through built-in sensors, HPCSA’s “outdated” guidelines unfortunately prevented this.
Writing in SA Medical Journal, Barit who is a PhD candidate at that university’s Faculty of Law, said while some high income countries such as the US seem to have moved with the times and regulators such as the US Food and Drug Administration were investigating how telemedicine technology could add convenience to patients and allow them to obtain prescriptions online after completing questionnaires via an app, but SA has remained behind.
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