Don’t postpone check-ups due to Coronavirus

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a massive effect on the lives of everybody on earth. It is often said that “we are all in the same boat”. That is not true. We are not all in the same boat, but we are all in the same storm! We have all heard about how “life will never be the same again”, how there will be a “new normal” and how we will have to change our ways.

“We have allowed this virus to take control of our lives and having this massive information overload is creating a lot of fear in people’s minds,” says Dr Paul de Flamingh. “It is almost as if we believe that Covid-19 is the only threat to our wellbeing and health. It is all everyone is talking about.”

Dr de Flamingh and the other medical specialists at the Hermanus Medical Centre in Ravenscroft Street (part of the Hermanus Mediclinic building) are concerned that patients are neglecting their health and forgetting to have their follow-up examinations for serious medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, breast examinations, mammograms, prostate examinations, Pap smears, colonoscopies and post-cancer check-ups, amongst others.

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