{"id":240361,"date":"2022-10-18T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/collect-your-chronic-medication-at-the-post-office\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:38:20","slug":"collect-your-chronic-medication-at-the-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/collect-your-chronic-medication-at-the-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Collect your chronic medication at the post office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202210\/chronic-illness-medication.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The South African Post Office (Sapo) has encouraged the public to make use its services for the collection of chronic medication from their branches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe service is aimed at patients who live or work closer to a post office [instead of] a government clinic.&nbsp; The main benefit of the service is longer service hours. Post office branches are open until 5pm on weekday and until 12:30pm on Saturday,\u201d Sapo said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The collection service is available at 342 post offices in all provinces except the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>These post offices were selected because they comply with the requirements of the Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Sapo said medication that requires specialised storage, such as cold storage, cannot be collected from one of their branches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatients of government clinics, who would like to collect their medication from their local post office, should arrange it with their clinic.&nbsp; The Department of Health sends the patient a SMS when the medication is ready for collection and patients have 14 days to collect it before the medication is returned to the Department of Health,\u201d Sapo said. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Post Office (Sapo) has encouraged the public to make use its services for the collection of chronic medication from their branches.&nbsp; \u201cThe service is aimed at patients who live or work closer to a post office [instead of] a government clinic.&nbsp; The main benefit of the service is longer service hours. Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-240361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/collect-your-chronic-medication-at-the-post-office.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}