South Africans are prioritising medical aid membership despite rising unemployment amid the pandemic, supporting Netcare's partial recovery as elective surgeries resume.
This week Richard Friedland, CEO of Netcare, SA's third-biggest private hospital group, said the group's experience to date had shown that medical aid membership remained "relatively resilient" even in the face of rising unemployment and a weak economy...
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