The shift comes as Discovery’s overall base continues to grow. As the largest open medical scheme in SA, changes across its base are material.
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This will allow Discovery’s bank of medical doctors to reach mobile phone users all over the country.Excellent. So the service is not limited to either Discovery or Vodacom clients – it’s available to all South Africans. So, just tell us how it works in practice, and the website or websites that people need to go and visit.Absolutely. I think the main purpose of this initiative is that it’s not restricted to any customers of any of the brands who have come together to launch this.
If you are considered low risk, we then direct you to an education portal, where we give you a lot of information around prevention of the disease. If you are considered high risk, we then recommend that you book a virtual consultation with a doctor. You can either book one at a specific time or, if there are doctors available on the platform at that point, you can see one immediately.
The result will then be sent back to the doctor, who will then contact the patient again for discussing the result.And obviously, just for clarity, if that did happen, the patient would go to the clinic or doctor and obviously pay for that test themselves.Correct. Vodacom and Discovery have contributed R10 million each into the fund. So it’s R20 million to fund just the online virtual consult initially.
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