NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 1645
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 21 JUNE 2013
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 22)
Mrs S P Kopane (DA) to ask the Minister of Health:
How many people are covered by medical aid in each province?
NW1991E
REPLY:
According to the latest, verified information that was published by the
Council for Medical Schemes in their annual report for the 2011/12
financial, the number of people covered by medical schemes in each province
is illustrated in the table below:
|Membership per province as at December 2011 |
| |Members |Dependants |Beneficiaries |
|Province | | |(Members plus |
| | | |Dependents) |
|Gauteng |1 399 765 |1 688 660 |3 088 425 |
|Limpopo |174 576 |261 815 |436 391 |
|Mpumalanga |235 123 |347 516 |582 639 |
|North West |227 586 |273 903 |501 489 |
|Free State |167 820 |229 092 |396 912 |
|KwaZulu-Natal |557 917 |751 294 |1 309 211 |
|Western Cape |592 518 |713 935 |1 306 453 |
|Eastern Cape |297 819 |416 949 |714 768 |
|Northern Cape |73 091 |108 592 |181 683 |
|Outside the Republic of South |4 350 |4 088 |8 438 |
|Africa | | | |
|Total membership | 3 730 | 4 795 | 8 526 |
| |565 |844 |409 |
The province with the highest number of beneficiaries is Gauteng and the
Northern Cape has the lowest number of beneficiaries. The total number of
people covered by medical schemes in the country is estimated at 16.2 %
(i.e. 8,526,409 lives) of the national population.
END.