In the Business Beyond Covid series, CEOs and other business leaders and experts in their sectors look to the future after Covid-19. What effect has the pandemic and resulting lockdown had on their industries and the SA economy as a whole? Which parts will bounce back first and which will never be the same again? Most importantly, they try to answer the question: where to from here?
It is no surprise that the issue of patient priorities becomes important. As a medical scheme, we see how less attention is being paid to the latter while the health sector focuses on the fight against Covid-19. Patient priorities are changing, and medical claims for conditions that were previously considered essential have dropped dramatically.
. This means patients and doctors will have to make an informed trade-off about whether to continue a patient’s cancer treatment vs increasing their chance of survival during the crisis. Doctors might start counselling against treatments they would normally recommend, and no doubt see some patients die sooner not because of Covid-19 but because they are not able to treat their patients as they normally would.
The SA Society of Anaesthesiologists recently provided a guidance document for elective procedures: recommendations for the management of anaesthesia and surgery for elective procedures. Elective procedures are broad in meaning and some have incorrectly interpreted them as “non-essential” or “optional” surgeries, but this is not always the case.
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