Bestmed Medical Scheme offers preventative care and wellness benefits for your child at no extra charge. Preventative care benefits include paediatric vaccines according to the state-recommended programme. Bestmed Tempo wellness programme benefits, available across all benefit options, include consultations with a nutritionist, occupational therapist and biokineticist.

Preventative care benefits
The Scheme funds all paediatric immunisations according to the state-recommended programme on all benefit options except Beat1 and Beat1 Network. Vaccines include immunisation against:

  • polio
  • tuberculosis
  • pneumococcus
  • rotavirus
  • hepatitis A and B
  • diphtheria
  • Haemophilus influenzae type B
  • pertussis
  • tetanus
  • measles
  • chicken pox
  • typhoid fever
  • cholera
  • meningitis
  • HPV (for females 9 to 26 years old)

Download Bestmed’s paediatric vaccine list for more information on when your child should receive which vaccine.