Shout4Masks Helps Healthcare Workers

In an emergency shout out, SHOUT SA have created a new public service initiative with SMD Technologies – SHOUT4MASKS  – to assist in raising much needed money to purchase surgical masks directly from factories, avoid profiteering and urgently give them to healthcare prefessionals and patients who need them most.

As SHOUT SA co-founder, Danny K, explains: "There is a crying need to protect those who are protecting us – our frontline heroes. Battling valiantly against COVID-19, our healthcare sector needs our support right now as the supply of masks dwindles. It’s getting desperate. Here at SHOUT SA, we have a voice, why not use it to shout out to our fellow countrymen to help secure more masks?"

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Fellow co-founder, Kabelo Mabalane, adds: "We are calling on all our fellow musicians and celebrities to get behind this to inspire and unite the nation to help get proper safe masks for those that need them most. For both patients and our most vulnerable communities, I am relieved that we are able to spread a protective front for both."

The compelling platform enables all South Africans – individuals and corporates – to donate combo packs of both specialist and surgical masks to healthcare professionals and patients for as little as R100.

Partnering SHOUT SA in this initiative are SMD Technologies, who have been able to secure incredible deals directly from factories at cost price with no middle men profiteering. As Avi Mishan, the Managing Director of SMD, explains: "With the dire shortage of masks in our hospitals, doctors and patients are at risk. We had to find a way to afford them quality masks with no compromise on safety and no profiteering. For the greater good of our country. This is about all of us."

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There Are Various Corporate Tiers Available For Donation

Shout4Masks has called on all to urgently help fund these protective masks at scale and lend a powerful hand to turn the tide in the battle against this invisible COVID-19 outbreak with special Corporate Tiers.

These tiers are hoping to create real momentum to crush the outbreak by substantially bulking up protection, to make even more of a difference to hundreds of community hot spots and healthcare centres.

These special Corporate Tiers comprise of:

These various packages will release thousands of vital masks to save teams and even wards of healthcare workers and patients from community field centres to clinics and hospitals across villages, towns and cities throughout the country.

Certificates of recognition will be issued to honour these invaluable contributions. Donors will be pleased to note that Shout4Masks is a Section 18A company. All donations will receive a tax deduction certificate.

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The Shout4Masks collaboration is technically supported by Yossie Hasson from Runway Fund and creatively powered by leading social change agents, MAL Design Studio creating for good - in an effort to reduce the economic, social and health impacts of COVID-19 in support of the national medical response to the pandemic.

As Designer-In-Chief, Emma Strydom, passionately shouts out: "How encouraging and uniting for the country to see public services being initiated across NGOs, trusts, businesses and the entertainment industry to benefit and support the healthcare sector, fulfilling our nation’s gees to unite and give back. Imagine the power of Shout4Masks spreading its protective might across South Africa to more than flatten the curve – to smash it."

"This is the kind of drive that's going to save the lives of doctors and other health workers at the frontline when COVID-19 positive patients present to them. Especially given that here are 180 countries around the world vying for the same global inventory pool, its incredible that SMD Technologies have been able to secure such a good deal directly from factories."

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Want To Help? Donate Now.

Help SHOUT SA provide safe medical masks for our frontline heroes by donating to the SHOUT4Masks initiative. Visit www.shout4masks.co.za to find out how you can donate to this worthy cause.

Also, follow them on Facebook and Instagram to keep up to date with the latest news, information and see where your kind donations are going.

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Lockdown is approaching and with it, a whole host of new concerns. Yes, we will be permitted to leave our homes to seek medical attention, but unless it's absolutely necessary or life-threatening, maintaining social distance needs to be top of mind for all South Africans. One way to help support our social distancing efforts is to make use of virtual or online healthcare practitioners.

Hello Doctor

Hello Doctor lets you talk to a doctor on your phone, so you don't even have to leave the house! It’s a whole new way to manage your health – using the one thing you always have with you, your phone. Hello Doctor allows you to skip the waiting rooms and stop scaring yourself into oblivion with internet searches.

How do you use it? All you have to do is download the Hello Doctor app, and you can talk to a qualified medical doctor, right from your smartphone. Hello Doctor is available 24/7. Once a call has been requested, they will respond within an hour.

Details: https://www.hellodoctor.co.za/

Discovery Health Virtual Consultation

Discovery Health offers a virtual health consultation service to its members. Once you've downloaded the Discovery app to your smartphone, you can find a network GP that is close to you and give your doctor consent to view your health record. The process is safe and secure – only these doctors can access your history and medical details. Your health record is necessary to help them make a more accurate diagnosis and to provide you with the best quality care.

How do you use it? Once you have completed these steps, you can have a follow-up virtual consultation with this approved GP. Your virtual consultation can happen by video, voice message or text message – whichever is most convenient for you. You can also use the app to order your medicine online.

Details: https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/health-virtual-consultation

Doctors On Call

If the situation you find yourself in is one that requires a face-to-face with a healthcare professional, Doctors on Call might be the service you need. Since its inception twenty years ago, Doctors on Call has been offering uninterrupted, 24 hours, seven days a week care, with prompt responses to Johannesburg patients requiring ambulatory medical assistance. This unique service has only been made possible by a fantastic team of doctors dedicated to their profession.

How do you use it? Doctors on Call offers 24/7 home, hotel and office visits. To access their services, simply call them via their hotline.

Details: http://doctorsoncall.co.za |+27 11 788 2222

Do you know of any other online healthcare services we didn't include? Let us know in the comments below!