PODCAST: Entrepreneur brings medical aid for under R100 a month to SA
28 September 2021 - 06:00
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If you’re running a large workforce and the guy cleaning the entrance to the lift you ride to the top floor has nothing to fall back on when he’s sick, shame on you.
Not every company can put the entire workforce on Discovery or Bonitas but in the edition of Podcasts from the Edge, Peter Bruce talks to Dr Reinder Nauta, an entrepreneurial medical man who reckons he can get blue-collar employees private sector primary care for under R100 a month, per employee.
Is that really possible? Nauta has signed up some 3,000 South African GPs. He reckons he can get your lift entrance cleaner into the same doctor's rooms as the CEO with little more than a WhatsApp exchange.
Back of an envelope, he reckons the potential market for his product could be 20-million people. Put another way, 20-million fewer people wasting time standing in queues at public hospitals. Listen in.
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers.
PODCAST: Entrepreneur brings medical aid for under R100 a month to SA
If you’re running a large workforce and the guy cleaning the entrance to the lift you ride to the top floor has nothing to fall back on when he’s sick, shame on you.
Not every company can put the entire workforce on Discovery or Bonitas but in the edition of Podcasts from the Edge, Peter Bruce talks to Dr Reinder Nauta, an entrepreneurial medical man who reckons he can get blue-collar employees private sector primary care for under R100 a month, per employee.
Is that really possible? Nauta has signed up some 3,000 South African GPs. He reckons he can get your lift entrance cleaner into the same doctor's rooms as the CEO with little more than a WhatsApp exchange.
Back of an envelope, he reckons the potential market for his product could be 20-million people. Put another way, 20-million fewer people wasting time standing in queues at public hospitals. Listen in.
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