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Your personal 24-hour healthcare advisor.
Professional help with your healthcare queries. Toll free number: 0800 00 47 47 (South Africa and Namibia) Trigger number: 011 991 8580 (Botswana, Lesotho & Swaziland)
Call the Personal Health Advisor from anywhere in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland or Lesotho and a friendly nurse will make use of her experience as well as a highly sophisticated computer system to:
- Assess your symptoms and refer you to the appropriate type of health care - whether the problem is a nagging cough, severe burn or possible malaria case;
- Provide you with important knowledge on any aspect of health, from complex issues such as surgery to everyday health matters such as lice, moles, measles or mumps;
- Provide expert counselling on any chronic ailment or disease, and help you to live with your condition or with that of a loved one, whether the condition is cancer, diabetes, asthma or a drug addiction;
- Provide expert information on medicines, including their intended purpose, side effects, etc;
- Give you emergency medical advice, providing appropriate first aid advice in an emergency, and help you provide assistance until medical support arrives;
- Help you understand more about a wide range of health issues, from the results of a blood test to the issues surrounding vaccinations or dietary concerns;
- Telephonic trauma counselling is also offered to you following a traumatic experience such as a death in the family, hi-jacking or serious illness. Guidance and counselling is offered 24 hours a day from experienced and caring counsellors.
Click here to read how the Health Line recently aided an Edgars Club Member. |