{"id":211503,"date":"2025-10-27T20:22:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-vitality-launches-new-medical-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:22:48","slug":"lesotho-vitality-launches-new-medical-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-vitality-launches-new-medical-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Vitality Launches New Medical Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8230;to improve healthcare access in Lesotho<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Seithati Motsoenesng<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><strong>V<\/strong>ITALITY Health has launched the Bophelosheleng Medical Scheme, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at making healthcare more affordable and accessible for Basotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The new scheme marks a major milestone in addressing the country&#8217;s low medical insurance coverage, which currently stands at just 1.3 percent of the population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Speaking at the launch event, Vitality&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230406.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to improve healthcare access in Lesotho Seithati Motsoenesng VITALITY Health has launched the Bophelosheleng Medical Scheme, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at making healthcare more affordable and accessible for Basotho. The new scheme marks a major milestone in addressing the country&#8217;s low medical insurance coverage, which currently stands at just 1.3 percent of the population. Keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,5957,4717,1407,7417,257,11079,254,49344],"class_list":["post-211503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-launches","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-scheme","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vitality"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}