A patient goes to the doctor. The doctor makes a diagnosis and writes them a script. The next thing they know, the patient is calling their rooms and asking if there’s cheaper medication available because of co-payments. So, they write them another script - only to get a call back from the pharmacy that it’s an S5 and S6 drug, and they need the original script and not an email. Or the patient simply goes without the medication. This happens across South Africa every day. Hundreds of times. This is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problems with traditional prescriptions. To help us understand what are the solutions, we are joined by…

Guest : Dr. Mohammed Dalwai - Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at EMGuidance

SAfm is commemorating Youth Day 2023 by inviting young people to co-host our daytime shows this coming Friday. We have been asking young people to send a WhatsApp voicenote telling us what are the three issues they would like tackled on air during the show. We have looked at the submissions and have chosen not one but two winners. We are about to announce the winners right now.

Guest: Onke - Centurion*