Essential Med Specials and Discounts Essential Med, established in 2005, provides innovative and comprehensive healthcare insurance policies and products in South Africa in conjunction with carefully selected strategic partners to ensure quality products and services. Along with their wide choice of products, Essential Med provides their customers with a source of information and advice on health-related issues on their website and social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Essential Med provides professionally trained staff to deal with clients from their call centre available on 0860 900 900 in addition to their easy to navigate website. Included in their product offerings are: Day-to-day benefits; Hospital cover and Emergency and Casualty visits. The Day-to-day benefits cover out-of-hospital medical needs with unlimited access to a network of more than 3000 health practitioners nationwide along with partial cover of after-hours or out-of-network emergency consultations with an annual limit of R1000 per family. These benefits include maternity check-ups with medication and tests, Downís syndrome screening and unspecified postnatal benefits. This also covers unlimited prescribed and acute medication subject to the acute medication formulary and unlimited chronic medication if registered and approved as well as basic dentistry, including dentist consultations and procedures and annual eye test per beneficiary and free lenses, contact lenses and frames every 24 months: The Day-to-day benefits are a pre-paid preventative health care service available for members under the age of 55 years. Essential Medís Hospital Cover covers accidents and eventualities that occur and includes cover for illness hospitalisation with a daily contribution per person per overnight stay in hospital up to 21 days per hospitalisation; dread disease hospitalisation with a lump sum in daily instalments upon diagnosis depending on the policy option for such dread diseases as heart attacks, coronary heart disease, cancer, strokes, brain tumours, kidney failure, organ transplants, paraplegia and blindness. The Hospital Cover also covers Maternity hospitalisation, Accident hospitalisation Essential Medís Emergency and casualty visits provides a stated benefit in respect of the permanent disability; a Death benefit following the death of the principal insured client; an HIV / Aids benefit in the event of accidental exposure to HIV/Aids. The Emergency and Casualty visit policy is a Stated Benefit Insurance Hospital Plan underwritten by Sanlam Developing Markets. Essential Med additionally offers valuable emergency medical services including emergency medical advice and information, emergency medical response by road or air, transfer to the most appropriate medical facility, transfer to a specialist diagnostic and therapeutic medical care centre, transfer of life-saving medications and emergency blood if required and companionship and / or care of stranded minor.