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The Discovery COVID-19 podcast

Our expert guests’ share key insights to help you to really understand Coronavirus Disease 2019. Learn all you need to know about maintaining your mental, physical, emotional and financial wellbeing – and more – in the context of COVID-19. Empower yourself with the facts. Stay informed. Stay healthy. All brought to you by Discovery.
Weekly English South Africa News · Health & Fitness
70 Episodes
32 – 52

COVID-19 in the Diabetic patient

Dr Neliswa Goglela is a hepatologist at UCT Private Academic and Groote Schuur hospital. She is also the first recipient of the Discovery Foundation Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Fellowship Award) where she managed patients with complex liver disease as well as patients needing liver transplants. Dr Gogela is a generalist…
12 May 2020 18 min

Our mental health at work before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the spotlight on mental illness. A common statistic cited before the pandemic was that 1 in 7 people at work would have had a common mental health disorder at any given time. Now, our lives and ways of working have been disrupted in significant ways…
8 May 2020 8 min

Keep your relationship healthy during COVID-19

Have you found that the pressures of ongoing lockdown and enforced containment measures, have put pressure on your marriage or intimate relationship? Psychotherapist, Louisa Niehaus, explains how confinement, adapting to new routines under duress, working remotely, home schooling, the stress of confronting an uncertain future and the added gravity of…
7 May 2020 13 min

Keeping children and their parents mentally healthy through COVID-19

Children thrive when they feel safe and protected, when their routines are in place and when their family and community are healthy and stable. However, COVID-19 pandemic and the global measures enforced to contain its spread have disrupting nearly every aspect of children’s lives. Clinical psychologist Joanna Kleovoulou explains the…
7 May 2020 14 min

Online consultations with patients are a must in the time of COVID-19

Many GPs have understood that their patients are extremely anxious about the risk of exposure to COVID-19 at their doctor’s rooms, and will avoid seeing their doctor even if they have a medical issue that requires attention. Dr Charlene de Greef, a GP based at Mayo Clinic in Johannesburg, has…
7 May 2020 5 min

Now, telehealth is key to keeping doctors and patients connected

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the uptake of telehealth technologies and remote consultation with patients using telephonic or virtual platforms. These platforms have existed for a long time, but the time of COVID-19 and increased physical distancing, they have become indispensable to patient care. Psychiatrist, Prof. Christoffel Grobler shares his…
7 May 2020 10 min

NICD’s virologist: COVID‑19 can affect any employee. How should we respond?

In the coming weeks and months, even more businesses will resume operations and employees will return to their places of work. What should employers and their staff understand about COVID‑19 to stay healthy, and to prevent discrimination in the workplace against individuals affected by COVID‑19? Dr Ahmad Haeri Mazanderani is…
7 May 2020 15 min

COVID-19 and maintaining mental health during and after a pregnancy

The mental wellbeing of a pregnant woman will affect the way in which her pregnancy progresses and also impact her unborn child on many levels. So what does the stress and worry that we all feel in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic mean for all the mothers to be…
29 Apr 2020 20 min

What does it take for life insurance to meet present and future needs?

We find ourselves facing a pandemic and uncertain times, particularly when it comes to our financial security. How does Discovery Life leverage the use of cutting edge technology in a way that assists and empowers clients, through innovative product solutions that reward them throughout their policy term. As Gareth Friedlander…
28 Apr 2020 17 min

The safety of healthcare workers

A podcast by Professor Mosa Moshabela, a specialist Family Physician, Associate Professor of Public health at UKZN and the dean of the School of Nursing and Public health at UKZN. He has also completed doctoral studies (PhD), in the field of public health, with a specific focus on health systems…
27 Apr 2020 25 min

Dr Ryan Fuller: How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect people with dementia?

We are all concerned for the health of elderly loved ones who are at high-risk of severe illness should they contract COVID-19. But, for older people who live with dementia - and their caregivers - this is a particularly trying time. People who have dementia have a limited understanding of…
24 Apr 2020 21 min

How to manage our response to COVD-19 as we return to the workplace

Clinical psychologist, Dr Colinda Linde, explains the emotional intricacies of returning to work after lockdown, and overturning fear and stigma related to COVID-19. Some may feel fear in the face of interaction with colleagues who have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19. But if we allow stigma and discrimination in…
24 Apr 2020 7 min

Hlokomela works to bring primary healthcare to people left destitute by COVID-19

“People are hungry. People don’t have food.” So says Christine du Preez in her interview with Azania Mosaka. When we talk about people working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, we must not forget the NGOs that are working tirelessly to support South Africa’s most vulnerable communities. Hlokomela is…
21 Apr 2020 15 min

Dessy Tzoneva: Dealing with the loss of a loved one to COVID-19

Many people the world over have had to face the loss of a loved on to COVID-19. How should we communicate with and support a loved one who contracts COVID-19 and develops serious illness that threatens their life? And, how might we come to terms with their death? Grief is…
21 Apr 2020 10 min

UYDF: How has COVID-19 affected student doctors from rural areas?

The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare professionals who are on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic is very much in the spotlight. However, what impact is the pandemic having on students working to become doctors, nurses, dentists and to enter other careers in healthcare? And, what happens when these students…
21 Apr 2020 19 min

Coping with a child who has autism, at home, during COVID-19

Managing the daily lives of typically developing children during lockdown is challenging for any parent or caregiver. However, for parents of a child who has autism, the stay-at-home period and all measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 can be particularly challenging. Ilana Gerschlowitz is a mother of three…
17 Apr 2020 14 min
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